Huld Magnúsdóttir announced as new CEO of NSA Ventures

The board of NSA Ventures has hired Huld Magnúsdóttir as the new CEO of the investment fund. She’ll replace Helga Valfells, who left NSA Ventures to found Crowberry Capital last January. She’ll start at NSA Ventures on May 1st.

The board sent the following in a statement:

Huld is an experienced manager with a diverse background from both the private and the public sector. From 2009 she was the Director General of the National Institute for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Deafblind and was the acting director of the Social Insurance Administration between 2015 and 2016. Between 1993-2008 she worked at Össur in Iceland and abroad in various management positions, including as director of production and distribution for North America, account manager, communication manager and quality control manager. Alongside her work at Össur she was a project manager in Bosnia-Herzegovina in a developmental project in cooperation with the Foreign Ministry.

Huld holds a BA degree in International Communication from the University of Sussex in the UK, MIB in International Business from Bifröst University and a diploma in public administration from the University of Iceland.

According to Almar Guðmundsson, chairman of the board of NSA Ventures, Huld is a great catch for the fund. “Huld has extensive business knowledge and experience in innovation, strategy and international operations after working world wide. She has the experience we’re looking for now that the next steps of the fund will be formulated.”