Edda Rut Björnsdóttir

Executive Vice President of Human Resources and Communication (EVP), was born in 1980. Joining Eimskip in 2019 as Head of Marketing and Communication, she was appointed to her current role in early 2020. Edda has over 20 years’ wide-ranging experience, having worked extensively in the IT sector and for 12 years in the financial sector. At Íslandsbanki, her various roles included Executive Director of Customer Relationship Management and Sales in the bank's Corporate and Investment Banking division. Edda is a Board Member of Eimskip Ísland ehf., a subsidiary of Eimskipafélag Íslands hf. and Advania Iceland one of the largest IT companies in Iceland. Edda Rut has a BSc. in Business Administration with an emphasis on Computer Science from Reykjavík University.