Rakel has served as Chief Digital Officer since March 2022. She joined Icelandair from pharmaceutical company Alvotech where she served as Chief Information Officer (CIO). Before that she was CIO and VP of Global Program Management Office at the international orthopedics company Össur. Prior to that, Rakel worked for 14 years at Arion Bank where she served as Managing Director of Corporate Development and Marketing from 2011 and was CIO from 2016 where she led the successful digital transformation of the bank. Rakel has an MBA from Duke University in the US and a B.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Iceland.
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