DNV GL names Vareide CEO of Digital Solutions business

Kenneth Vareide

Kenneth Vareide has been appointed the CEO of DNV GL’s Digital Solutions business area,

“DNV GL has been a digital pioneer since the 1960s and it is an exciting and challenging time to pick up the CEO’s baton, as many of our customers are navigating digital transformations,” said Vareide. “With our deep domain knowledge and digital expertise, we are ideally placed to help our customers leverage the possibilities of the fourth industrial revolution.”

DNV’s Digital Solutions business is a provider of solutions for managing risk and improving asset performance. It consists of close to 1,000 digital experts.

Digital Solutions is behind established software such as Sesam, Nauticus and Synergi, and the business area will continue to grow its portfolio of software-as-a-service products. It also includes Veracity, DNV GL’s data platform and industry ecosystem, which has registered 160,000 activated users since its inception in 2017. Veracity acts as a secure repository for data and allows companies to access services from DNV GL or verified third parties.

“We have put digitalization at the heart of our strategy and I am delighted that Kenneth has agreed to lead Digital Solutions at this pivotal time for DNV GL and our customers,” said Remi Eriksen, DNV GL Group President and CEO . “He will continue to grow our software eco-system and the services we offer to our customers, and build on the early success of Veracity, which has already registered 1.2 million service subscriptions.”

Vareide started in DNV GL in 1996 as a trainee and has since served in different positions and capacities across DNV GL’s business areas and regions, providing classification, technical and management advisory services to the maritime and oil & gas industries. He holds a master’s degree in Naval Architecture from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and a master’s degree in Technology Management from NTNU and the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH Bergen), in cooperation with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Sloan School of Management.