Icelandair's Executive Committee
Our Executive Committee consists of eight members who provide strategic leadership and oversee the Company’s operations.
Our Executive Committee consists of eight members who provide strategic leadership and oversee the Company’s operations.
Bogi Nils blev udnævnt til administrerende direktør for Icelandair Group i december 2018 efter at have været økonomidirektør siden 2008. Han var økonomidirektør for Askar Capital fra januar 2007, indtil han tiltrådte Icelandair Group og blev økonomidirektør for Icelandic Group fra 2004-2006. Bogi Nils fungerede som en revisor og partner hos KPMG i Island fra 1993-2004. Bogi Nils er cand.oecon. fra Islands Universitet og blev statsautoriseret revisor i 1998.
Arnar Már has extensive experience in airline operations. He was one of the founders of Play in 2019, where he served as CEO during the first years of service and then as Chief Operating Officer from 2021 to 2024, and served also as Deputy CEO for some time, in addition to serving as Training Captain since 2019. Arnar Már previously worked for WOW air, from 2013 to 2019, where he served as Chief Operating Officer, Director of Flight Operations, Chief Pilot and Training Captain. Prior to that, he worked as a pilot and captain at Ryan air.
Árni blev udpeget som administrerende direktør for Loftleiðir Icelandic i januar 2018 efter at have været finansdirektør for virksomheden siden 2002. Før dette havde han været finansdirektør for de islandske teknologivirksomheder ANZA og Alit. Han er cand.oecon. i virksomhedsadministration fra University of Iceland.
Einar Már Guðmundsson was appointed Managing Director Air Freight and Logistics in September 2023. He has worked for Icelandair since 2015 as a Director at the company’s Technical Operations. Previously, Einar Már was the Leader of Procurement at Rio Tinto Alcan (ISAL) for three years and before that he was the Operations Manager of Skeljungur. Einar Már has an MBA degree from Copenhagen Business School and a BS degree in Science of Fisheries from the University of Akureyri.
Elísabet Helgadóttir blev udnævnt til personaledirektør i januar 2018. Hun har arbejdet i personaleadministrationen hos Islandsbanki siden 2007 og som leder for karriereudvikling de sidste fem år. Hendes opgaver hos Islandsbanki omfattede supervision af al personaleuddannelse og -oplæring, lederuddannelse, ledercoaching og resultatstyring. Fra 2000 til 2007 arbejdede hun for Capacent Gallup med forskning og rådgivning. Elísabet færdiggjorde en bachelorgrad i psykologi på Islands Universitet i 2000 og en universitetsgrad i personaleadministration på EADA Business School i Barcelona i 2007.
Ívar S. Kristinsson har fungeret som administrerende direktør for Icelandairs flåde siden maj 2018 efter at have været ansat i virksomheden siden 2010 som administrerende direktør for ressourcestyring. Før dette var han driftsdirektør hos Promens fra 2006 til 2008 og projektleder hos Icelandair fra 2000 til 2005. Ívar har en kandidatgrad i industriel ingeniørvidenskab fra University of Iceland samt en MBA i selskabsfinansiering fra University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Leifur’s aviation experience spans nearly 30 years, both in Iceland and abroad. He has served as Vice President, Technical and Maintenance at Icelandair since 2021 after having led technical and maintenance operations at Loftleidir Icelandic, Icelandair's charter arm, and at Air Iceland Connect before Icelandair’s domestic flight operations were merged with its international operations. From 2014 to 2017, Leifur was Vice President of Fleet at Avion Express in Lithuania and Director within Operations at SmartLynx Airlines in Latvia during 2009-2014. Leifur began his career in aviation in 1998 as an aircraft maintenance technician at Air Iceland, where he worked for over 10 years in various positions in the technical field.
Tómas blev udpeget som informationsdirektør for en ny afdeling, Digital udvikling og informationsteknologi i februar. Han var informationsdirektør hos WOW air i 2018 og direktør for digitalisering hos Arion Bank mellem 2016 og 2018. Tómas var direktør for virksomhedsudvikling hos WOW air i 2014. Før dette var han administrationskonsulent hos Bain & Company i København og arbejdede som direktør for indtægtsadministration og prissætning hos Icelandair i mange år. Tómas har en MBA fra MIT Sloan School of Management i Boston, en kandidatgrad i logistikteknik og forsyningskædestyring samt en bachelorgrad i industriel ingeniørvidenskab fra University of Iceland.