on Saturday morning met the chairman of the board Gunn Wærsted and ceo Sigve Brekke of Telenor under fredsprisutdelingen in the Oslo city hall. Both were silent about their own future in the company and what has happened between them, after it this week emerged that Wærsted not got the board in Telenor to kick the Break when he earlier in the fall declined to go by.
After the ceremony was over, it was almost the several members of the media who were waiting for the Telenor peaks than the nobel laureate.
– Ba Wærsted you have to go?
I have no comment. We have an event for children on Fredssenteret. That is what we are concentrating on now, ” said Break as he småløp with his wife in tow from the Rådshustrappen against Fredssenteret.
Sololøp of Wærsted?
Ceo Brekke has the last few days made himself unavailable and via its kommunikasjonsavdeling stated that he does not have any comments. Opposite the newspaper Aftenposten he wanted rather not to comment about the noise around the company has damaged the Telenor.
Monday ushers the board of directors in Telenor a two-day meeting. A hot topic is the latest dramatic rounds in the relationship between Sigve Brekke and Gunn Wærsted. It has occurred that there is any doubt about whether or not she had anchored the attempts to remove the Break in the board.
- Sigve Brekke was appointed as the ceo of Telenor 17. august 2015. He has been in the company since 1999 and of the group management since 2008, where he was the supreme chief of Telenor’s operations in Asia 2008-2015.
- Break succeeded Jon Fredrik Baksaas, who had held the job since 2002.
- Baksaas admitted in november 2015 to have held the information back in the open hearing on the Parliamentary control of the parliamentary scrutiny and constitutional committee held in January of the same year, about korrupsjonspåstandene about the Russian phone company work at vimpelcom, Telenor bought into in 1998.
- 30. October 2015 allotted Norwegian trade and industry minister Monica Mæland (H) the Telenor board chairman Svein Aaser, after having received the information that she believed she should have had in the past.
- Aasers predecessor, Harald Norvik (2007-2012) withdrew as a result of a conflict with the then Norwegian trade and industry minister Trond Giske (A).
- Gunn Wærsted was appointed as the new chairman of the board of Telenor in January.
- Thursday wrote Dagens Næringsliv that Wærsted in a conversation with Sigve Brekke in the fall gave the expression that he should go by the Telenor ceo.
Source: NTB
This styrestriden is also featured in the annual evaluation of the board of directors, which is carried out by the consulting firm Russell Reynolds. This year’s report was finished for a relatively short time ago, and that Aftenposten be able to tell the Friday theme at the board meeting.
According to Dagens Næringsliv, the report contains criticism of the Wærsteds conduct as chairman of the board. She is portrayed as detaljstyrende. Saturday declined to comment on the criticism that is addressed to her.
Will also break off position to be the theme at the board meeting on Monday?
I have no other comments than those I have given. I’m commenting not on the board’s discussions or processes, repeated an almost småløpende Gunn Wærsted.
This is a very unfortunate case for Telenor. No doubt about it, was her short comment before she rushed on over to town hall Square.
Greeted metered
the Turmoil surrounding the Telenor question that the chairman already in august took up with Him if he should retire, something that the ceo rejected.
Background was the irregularities that are discovered in Asia-business as the Break headed until he became president and ceo in the year. But Wærsted was not with the board of directors to kick the Break.
There was little cordiality to track when the two main characters in the Telenor drama is almost two hours past met inside the town Hall.
a Little before the clock 13 came Sigve Brekke to attend the awarding of the nobel Prize. Gunn Wærsted, everything was in place just a few seats beyond where Brekke and his wife Torgunn Aas Reggestad set. Between them was among other head of Telenor’s operations in Norway, Berit Svendsen.
the Ceo and the chairman greeted and exchanged a few words. Otherwise it was Sigve Brekke most concerned about their mobile phone.
Sunday is the Nobel concert in the Telenor Arena at Fornebu with telegiganten as one of the main sponsors. It will be a chance for teletoppene to meet before Monday’s board meeting.
political aftermath
It is not only in The organs that this case can get a aftermath.
The committee also proposed awaiting the Norwegian trade and industry minister Monica Mælands response to a letter from the member of parliament Knut Storberget (A).
In the letter, he asks whether the minister was familiar with the styrelederens initiative to reach out to the ceo and whether the minister has had contact with the Gunn Wærsted in the occasion before, during or after her initiative.
Storberget is a member of the næringskomiteen in Parliament, but the minister’s handling of this case may be a case for the control committee.
At the present time, this is not a case for the control committee. We await the answer the minister gives on the letter from Storberget, says a tight-lipped Martin Kolberg (Ap), the chairman of the Parliament’s control, to Aftenposten.
Mæland oriented
the Attention around ms. Monica Mælands role increases. VG wrote Friday night that Telenor’s chairman of the board Gunn Wærsted has kept Norwegian trade and industry minister Monica Mæland (H) is informed about his lack of trust to the president and ceo Sigve Brekke.
Central sources says to VG that it has been the so-called eierdialog between Wærsted and Ministry of economics about her work in the board of directors of Telenor. The chairman shall also have informed the minister that she wanted to remove Him from the helm in Telenor. The face of the media has Wærsted opted not to comment on this.
Ministry confirms the meetings
head of communications Trond Viken in the Ministry of industry said the following to the newspaper Aftenposten on Thursday:
– There has been contact between the ministry and the chairman of the board Gunn Wærsted after she took over. The meetings have been both on the political and administrative level. We do not disclose further information about the confidentiality eierdialogen with Telenor or other companies.
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