Anita Krohn is the Group CEO of the Norwegian industrial investment company DSD AS (Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskap) and Vice Chair and board member of the European Innovation Council (EIC) since 2019.
Anita became the first female CEO of Hewlett-Packard Norway in 2012 and is the former CEO of Innovation Norway (2014-2019), one of the Norwegian Government's financial instruments for innovation and development of Norwegian enterprises and industry, Krohn has also led the Norwegian government's committee for Innovation and Growth in the Green sector towards 2035.
Krohn is a bestselling author of two #1 books on leadership in Norway and in 2018 she was ranked as one of the top 50 global business thinkers by Thinkers50 Radar, and amongst the top 50 most inspiring women in European Tech in 2015 and 2016. In 2012, she received the Oda award for best female leader in the IT industry in Norway.