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Board and Governance
Board of Directors
Magnus Ingi Einarsson（https://fossar.is/en/employee/magnus-ingi-einarsson/）
Chairman of the board
magnus.einarsson@fossar.is
Magnus is the chairman of the board of Fossar Investment Bank.
Magnus currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of SKEL Investment Company. Previously, he worked for Kvika bank and its predecessor entities for over 16 years and has extensive knowledge of the financial markets. There he served, among other roles, as Managing Director of the Banking Division from 2019–2022 and as Managing Director of Finance and Operations from 2015–2019. Magnus was Head of Treasury at Straumur Investment Bank from 2012–2015 and worked in the bank’s Risk Management from 2006–2012.
Magnus sits on the boards of several companies owned by SKEL Investment Company, including Drangar, Orkan, Samkaup, Lyfjaval and Baridi Iceland.
Magnus holds an M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and a B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Iceland.
Haraldur Thordarson（https://fossar.is/en/employee/haraldur-thordarson/）
Board member
Haraldur Thordarson serves on the Board of Directors of Fossar Investment Bank.
Haraldur has an extensive experience working within the financial industry and is CEO of VÍS Group, Fossar Investment Bank’s parent company. Haraldur is one of the founders of Fossar Investment Bank and served as CEO from 2015 to 2023. He was Managing Director of Capital Markets at Straumur Investment Bank from 2011 until 2015 and sat on the bank’s Management Board during the same period. Haraldur played a key role in developing the bank’s growth strategy and new business opportunities. In the years 2007 until 2010 Haraldur was the Group Treasurer of Exista hf, an Icelandic financial service group, and Head of Funding at the same company from 2006. Before that Haraldur worked within the Treasury function at Kaupthing Bank.
Haraldur holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration from Reykjavik University and a Global Executive MBA degree from IESE Business School. He is also a certified securities broker.
Marta Gudrun Blondal（https://fossar.is/en/employee/marta-gudrun-blondal/）
Board member
marta.blondal@fossar.is
Marta Gudrun serves on the Board of Directors of Fossar Investment Bank.
Marta is the EVP of Corporate Development at ORF Genetics. She has worked at ORF Genetics since 2018, and up until the end of 2022 she was also the General Counsel of BIOEFFECT. From 2014 to 2018, Marta was the Deputy Managing Director and General Counsel of the Iceland Chamber of Commerce. During the same period, she was the Secretary General of the Nordic Arbitration Centre. Prior to that, Marta worked at Juris law firm, at the Icelandic Directorate of Immigration, the Ministry of the Interior and the Court Case Review Commission. Marta is an attorney and has extensive knowledge of the legal environment of Icelandic companies as well as good corporate governance. She has been involved in the publication of the Icelandic Corporate Governance Guidelines since 2014.
Marta also serves on the Board of Directors of VÍS Group/Skagi, Fossar Investment Bank’s parent company, as well as the Icelandic fuel distribution company Olíudreifing.
Marta holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Iceland and a bachelor’s degree from the same school. She is licensed as a district court attorney.
Anna Baldursdottir（https://fossar.is/en/employee/anna-baldursdottir/）
Board member
Anna Baldursdottir serves on the Board of Directors of Fossar Investment Bank.
Anna is a consultant with extensive experience from the financial industry. She has successfully led teams in the start-up culture of Icelandic banking and within an established UK commercial bank. After several years in Leveraged Finance she applied herself in Remediation reviews leading teams and providing judgement on a wide range of issues in relation to restructuring practices and the sale of interest rate derivatives to small and medium sized businesses.