Norwegian low-cost airline Norwegian announces that the company's CEO and co-founder Björn Kjos is leaving his position with immediate effect. CFO Geir Karlsen will become acting CEO.
After 17 years as CEO of Norwegian, Björn Kos is stepping down and will instead take on an advisory role to the board, according to a press release on Thursday morning, published shortly after the company released its second-quarter interim report.
Until a new permanent CEO has been appointed, Geir Karlsson will act as acting CEO.
”"Leaving the exciting future assignment to a new CEO and taking on a new challenge as an advisor is a solution that I am very satisfied with," says Björn Kos, according to the press release.
Björn Kjos has repeatedly stated that he intends to leave the company.
”"Maybe I should have put on my retirement hat a long time ago," he said, for example, in connection with a press conference at the end of March.
Back in September last year, it was reported that Norwegian's board had begun the process of finding a successor to Björn Kjos. The Norwegian newspaper Nettavisen then pointed to Hurtigruten CEO Daniel Skejldam and Björn Kjos' daughter Anna Helene Kjos as possible candidates for the position.
Source: di.se
