Espen Samuelsen

Espen Meling Samuelsen serves as the Senior Vice President of Operations at Zivid since May 2024. Prior experience includes nine years as SVP of Operations at Saferoad Group, where responsibilities encompassed managing industrialization, LEAN transformations, and supply chain optimization across 19 production facilities. Espen was also the Vice President and Head of Global Supply Chain Management at Aker Solutions' Subsea division and held various leadership roles within the company, including Vice President Finance and Managing Director of Aker Solutions Cyprus Ltd. Earlier in the career, Espen directed supply chain operations at Nycomed and worked as a consultant at A.T. Kearney and ExxonMobil. Educational qualifications include an MBA from ESCP Business School, along with degrees from BI Norwegian Business School and NTNU, where a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering was obtained.