TOMRA Executive Leadership Team
Tove Andersen (b. 1970)
Tove Andersen began as President and Chief Executive Officer of TOMRA on August 16, 2021. Prior to joining TOMRA she had a long career at the leading global fertilizer company Yara International, most recently serving as executive vice president in charge of the European business activities. Over the course of her 24-year career at Yara she held a number of senior management positions, including EVP Production (2018-21), and EVP Supply Chain (2016-18), as well as diverse management roles with responsibility for marketing, business development and finance.
Tove holds an MBA from the Norwegian School of Management in Sandvika, Norway (1997), and a Master of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim, Norway (1994).
Andersen is Norwegian and lives with her husband and two children in Oslo. She serves also as a member of the board of directors of Equinor and Borregaard.
Number of shares in TOMRA Systems ASA: 12,772.
Eva Sagemo (b. 1975)
Eva Sagemo joined TOMRA in March 2012 as the Group Controller for TOMRA Sorting Solutions and held this position until February 2018. She then served as the Group Controller for TOMRA, before she was appointed CFO in March 2022. Prior to joining TOMRA she worked as an auditor (BDO), Consolidation & Reporting Manager (Aibel) and Chief Accountant (Fugro).
Eva holds an Executive Master of Management with specialization in tax law, BI Norwegian Business School (2021) and a bachelor’s degree in Audit, Oslo Metropolitan University (2000). Eva is Norwegian and lives in Asker, Norway.
Number of shares in TOMRA Systems ASA: 3,594.
Lars Kversøy Enge (b. 1984)
Lars Enge began as EVP Group Strategy in March 2022. Prior to joining TOMRA, he held various senior roles at Yara International within M&A, Finance and Strategy. Most recently, he served as CFO for Yara Europe. Lars also served as VP Corporate Performance and Risk (2018-2020), CFO Yara Industrial (2016-2018), and Project Leader and later Head of Group M&A (2014-2016) at Yara. Lars also has earlier experience from McKinsey & Company (2009-2014).
Lars holds and MSc in Industrial Economics and Technology Management from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
He lives with his wife and two children in Oslo.
Number of shares in TOMRA Systems ASA: 1,462.
Executive Leadership Team
Harald Henriksen (b. 1963)
Harald Henriksen started his career with TOMRA as Senior Vice President Technology in 2004 and held this position until 2011. He then served as Senior Vice President Head of North America Collection Solutions until June 2016 when he was appointed to his current position. Prior to joining TOMRA, Henriksen was VP Business Unit Tactical Radio in Kongsberg Defence and Communication AS, VP Product Management and VP R&D in Kongsberg Ericsson Communications ANS. He started his career within technical management and project management in NFT-Ericsson ANS in 1990.
The TOMRA Collection Solutions (TCS) business area is responsible for the design, manufacture and marketing of reverse vending systems for automated collection of used beverage containers, and Material Recovery activities in North America (pick-up, transport and processing of used beverage containers on behalf of beverage producers/fillers in Canada and the eastern US) TCS is the leading provider of reverse vending solutions worldwide with a global market share close to 80% and more than 75,000 active installations.
Harald Henriksen is Norwegian and received his B.Sc Electronics from the University of Salford in Manchester, UK. He is based in Asker, Norway.
Number of shares in TOMRA Systems ASA: 87,366.
Michel Picandet (b. 1967)
Michel Picandet joined TOMRA in January 2020 as Executive Vice-President and Head of TOMRA Food.
Prior to joining TOMRA, Picandet held various management positions within Tetra Pak as global and managing director in food packaging and processing activities. He has headed the Life Cycle Management division of Sidel where he also worked in America, Asia and Europe. He started his career in engineering and controls at Rhone-Poulenc Animal Nutrition.
Michel is a French national and has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Clermont-Ferrand as well as a Master in management from ESCP Business School. He is married with one daughter and based at the TOMRA Food headquarters in Leuven, Belgium.
Number of shares in TOMRA Systems ASA: 9,048.
Volker Rehrmann (b. 1961)
Volker Rehrmann joined TOMRA through the acquisition of TITECH in 2004. In 1998 he founded Real Vision Systems Gmbh and led the company as Managing Director until 2002 when it was acquired by TITECH. In 2013, Rehrmann was appointed TOMRA Group Chief Technology Officer and Head of Business Area Sorting Solutions. Rehrmann took on his current leadership role as Head of TOMRA Recycling/Mining & Circular Economy at the beginning of 2019.
One of the pioneers within development of optical systems for waste sorting applications, Rehrmann started his career as an assistant professor for computer vision at the University of Koblenz. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Koblenz, and has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Paderborn. He is a German native and is based in Koblenz, Germany.
Number of shares in TOMRA Systems ASA: 28,058.