Management

Per Ove Øyberg joined Nemko in April 2019.  Per Ove has extensive experience from the Testing, Inspection and Certification industry locally and globally at all levels in DNVGL.  He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Power Electronics from Gjøvik College of Engineering, and a Master of Science in Process Automation from the University of South-Eastern Norway (former HIT) as well as executive educations from Insead Business School, SDA Bocconi and IMD Business School.  

Kristian Syverstad Myrbakk came from the position as Group Legal Counsel in DNV GL Group, and joined Nemko in February 2020.

He has broad experience from most fields of activity in a TIC company. This includes quality case handling, establishment and maintenance of quality systems, NoBo governance and services, litigation, insurance handling, contracts, compliance and intellectual property rights law. His experience also includes working with digital initiatives to make the existing service portfolio more efficient and to create new digital services.

Since he graduated in January 2000, Kristian has also worked as a lawyer at the Attorney General for Civil Affairs (Regjeringsadvokaten), as a public prosecutor and as a corporate lawyer.

Grant Schmidbauer is responsible for Business Development, including Sales and Marketing.  Grant has more than 36 years of experience in the field of international product compliance and is tasked with further developing Nemko’s brand in the market.  Starting with Nemko in 1996, Grant formerly worked for CSA International and TUV SUD. Grant is a graduate of the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Vancouver, BC, in Power Electronics.  Grant is an IEEE Sr. member and is currently in his 3rd term serving on the Board of Directors of the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society (IEEE/PSES).

Shahram Maralani joined Nemko in August 2022.  Shahram has more than two decades of senior leadership experience internationally, the last nineteen years of which holding various executive roles in the Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) industry (DNV). He has a PhD in Management, an MBA and also a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and has been through Executive and Digital Transformation educations with INSEAD and UC Berkeley.