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Leiv Askvig, Chairman

Leiv Askvig is the Managing Director of Sundt AS and was elected to the board in 2009. He was deputy chair of the board of Verdipapirsentralen following its privatisation in 2003 until 2007, and he was on the board of Verdipapirsentralen prior to its privatisation from 1992 - 2000. He was a member of the Nomination Committee of Oslo Børs VPS Holding from 2007 to 2009. Leif Askvig has been a member of the board of Imarex ASA since 2004, and was chair of the board from 2006 to 2009. He has also been a member of the board of Fjellkraft AS. He is currently a member of a number of boards, including Eiendomsspar/Victoria Eiendom AS, Pandox AB, Skibs AS Tudor / AS Toluma, Verdane Capital IV AS, Alfarveg AS and Agder OPS Vegselskap AS, and he is a member of the Nomination Committee of Orkla ASA. Askvig is a business economics graduate of the Norwegian School of Management.

Benedicte Schilbred Fasmer, Deputy Chair

Benedicte Schilbred Fasmer holds the position as Head of Business Development and Investor Relations at Argentum. She was elected to the board in 2005. She was previously Director Capital Markets Division at Sparebanken Vest, the Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer, and more recently Head of Corporate Communications and HR, at Rieber & Søn. Her work experience prior to this included Paal Wilson Management AS, chief of staff and later vice president at Citibank International plc, head of the Norwegian branch of Nautopolis.com, and as an investment banker at Pareto Securities ASA in Bergen. Schilbred Fasmer was previously a member of the Council of Representatives of Exportfinans ASA, the Nomination Committee of Lerøy Seafood ASA and the Council of Representatives and the Nomination Committee of StatoilHydro ASA. She has also been a board member of Vesta Forsikring and Fana Sparebank, and a member of the Control Committee for Storebrand Bank. She has a Master of Science from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.

Harald Espedal, Member

Harald Espedal is managing director of Skagen AS, which acts as investment manager for Skagen Funds and was elected to the board in 2008. Before joining Skagen AS in 2002, he was the manager of Andersen (Ernst & Young) in Stavanger and also worked as Investment Director at Vesta and as European portfolio manager at Skandia (which at that time owned Vesta). Prior to this, he was head of finance and analysis with SpareBank1 SR-Bank. He has also been Chairman of the Board of the Norwegian Mutual Fund Association. He has a Masters degree in business and is a graduate of the higher-level auditing course at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.

Gisele Marchand, Member

Gisele Marchand is the President and CEO of Eksportfinans ASA. She has been a shareholder-elected member of the board since 2007. She previously held various senior management positions in the DNB group, and was responsible as amember of the group executive management for the corporate and retail markets in Norway. She has also previously been Managing Director of the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund and of Batesgruppen AS. She has experience from a number of board appointments, including Hafslund ASA, EDB ASA, Norske Skogindustrier ASA, Fornebu Utvikling ASA, Gjensidige Forsikring ASA, Innovation Norway and GIEK.

Benedikte Bettina Bjørn, Member

Benedikte Bjørn is a Danish citizen and is an attorney and Company Secretary at Statoil ASA. Bjørn was elected to the board in 2008. She previously worked for Norsk Hydro ASA in the legal department and as Company Secretary and Vice President, as well as working for the Danish Ministry of Energy, at the University of Copenhagen and with a Danish law firm. She has been a member of the board of BioMar Holding AS, a company listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. She is a deputy member of the Corporate Assembly of Orkla ASA, and represents the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise on Næringslivets Aksjemarkedsutvalg (the Equity Markets Commission). She is a law graduate of the University of Copenhagen, and is qualified as an attorney in Denmark and Norway.

Christian F. Falkenberg Kjøde, Employee representative

Christian F. Falkenberg Kjøde works as Head of Enquiries and Analysis in Market surveillance. He was elected as an employee representative to the Oslo Børs Board in 2009. He has been a employee at Oslo Børs since 1999 and has held different positions at Market surveillance. Christian has been a deputy employee representative of the Oslo Børs board from 2007 to 2009. He has a Master of Business Administration and Economics from handelshøyskolen BI.

Ingvild Resaland, Employee representative

Ingvild Anita Resaland (born 1979) was elected as an employee representative to the Oslo Børs ASA Board in 2010. Since 2008 Ingvild has been working as an adviser for Issuers of bonds and commercial papers in the Listing department, where she also is responsible for the secondary market for bonds on Oslo Børs and Oslo ABM, including market model and functionality for trading. She has previously held several positions in Oslo Børs Market Data department (previously Oslo Børs Informasjon AS) between 2001 and 2007 and worked as an adviser in Optimum ASA from 2007-2008. She has a Bachelor of Business Administration and Economics from Handelshøyskolen BI.

Visiting address:		Tollbugt. 2
Postal address:		Box 460 Sentrum, 0105 Oslo
Phone:		+47 22 34 17 00

Investor relations:		www.obvps.no

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Oslo Børs Board of Directors