Trygve Veisdal Hanssen

Trygve Veisdal Hanssen currently serves as the Director of the R&D Technical Center at Elkem ASA, a position held since May 2019, where responsibilities include overseeing the R&D center's chemical and material labs, high temperature test facilities, technical services, and instrumentation. Prior to this role, Hanssen held several positions at Elkem AS, including Director of Automation & Industrial Digitalization and Manager of Automation & IMS and Technical Safety. With a career that began in 1990, Hanssen has also co-founded and managed companies focused on industrial IT systems and has extensive experience in project management and engineering in automation and industrial IT across various organizations. Hanssen's academic credentials include studies at the University of Agder and the Norwegian School of Information Technology.