poLight ASA employs new CFO
Horten, 3 June 2024 - poLight ASA announces today that the company has employed new CFO to support the company’s international growth strategy. The new CFO is Rolf Joakim Hines Bredahl (47). He will start in his new position 2 September 2024.
The current CFO, Alf Henning Bekkevik, will continue as VP Finance, reporting to CFO, after soon 8 years of dedicated service as our CFO.
Rolf Joakim Hines Bredahl has a BA (Hons) in Finance and Marketing from Strathclyde Business School. His career started in entrepreneurship, followed by an eight-year stint at Verdane Capital Advisors, where he worked with fund raising, fund structures, financial reporting and fund administration in a middle-office position. Since 2015, he has worked at Nordea in different customer-facing roles. For the past three years, he has served as a Senior Relationship Manager in the bank’s Startup & Growth unit, where he has helped secure debt funding, provided advice and shared the bank’s network of investors with a portfolio of Norwegian growth companies. While at Nordea, Mr Bredahl also hosted two corporate podcasts and had numerous public speaking engagements. He is now looking forward to adding his expertise and experience to the poLight team to help grow and develop the company.
Further information from:
Dr. Øyvind Isaksen, CEO, poLight ASA: +47 90 87 63 98
About poLight ASA
poLight ASA (OSE: PLT) offers patented, state-of-the-art tunable optics technology, leveraging its proprietary polymer and piezo MEMS technology. Founded in 2005, its first product TLens® replicates "the human eye" experience in autofocus cameras used in applications such as AR/MR devices, smartphones, wearables, webcams and other consumer devices, industrial barcode scanners and machine vision systems, and healthcare applications. With over 160 granted patents, poLight's technology delivers extremely fast focus, small footprint, ultra-low power consumption, no magnetic interference, and constant field of view, enabling better imaging system performance and new user experiences compared to alternative technologies. poLight is based in Horten, Norway, with employees in Finland, France, UK, US, China, Taiwan, and the Philippines. For more information, please visit https://www.polight.com.