Ragnhildur Geirsdottir joined Promens hf. in January 2006 as President & CEO. Ragnhildur is the chairman of the board of a number of Promens subsidiaries. She is also on the board of Morgunbladid, a leading Icelandic newspaper and of Tolvumyndir, an international software company located in Iceland.
Before joining Promens Ms Geirsdottir worked for FL Group hf. from 1999 where she was Director of Resource Management from 2003 and Managing Director in 2005. Ms. Geirsdottir has a MS degree in Industrial Engineering and in Business from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a CS degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Iceland.
David versus Goliath in fishing Peru
A little more than three years ago, the government of the People's Republic of China surprised the world by reporting that its distant water industrial vessels, which fish for squid at the edge of the...