Team

Multidisciplinary team combining the capabilities needed to commercialise and scale Mana

Jon Bergan

CEO

Selected experience

  • NG Nordic · Statkraft · Klaveness · Hydro
  • 12 years as EVP at NG Nordic
  • MSc Energy · Master of Economics

Core capabilities

  • Corporate strategy and positioning
  • Waste-industry leadership
  • Stakeholder and investor engagement
  • Industrial partnerships

Lars Ekeland

CCO

Selected experience

  • Otovo · Wikborg Rein · DNB · Hydro
  • 20+ years across energy, finance and law
  • MSc Mathematics · Master of Laws

Core capabilities

  • Strategy, finance, transactions
  • International scale-up
  • Commercial partnerships and JVs
  • Governance and business modelling

Adis Cengic

Business development

Selected experience

  • NG Nordic · Hydro · Avery Dennison
  • 15+ years in industrial operations
  • BSc Computer Science · BSc Electronics

Core capabilities

  • Built the world’s first fully digital waste sorting line
  • Plant start-ups and turnarounds
  • Waste markets and feedstock
  • Technology partnerships

Stine Johansen

Technology

Selected experience

  • Mana Group · Arbaflame · Borregaard · Oceaneering Asset Integrity
  • 10+ years in industrial technology and project development
  • MSc Chemical Engineering · NTNU

Core capabilities

  • Led development and implementation of a first-of-a-kind furfural process line in an industrial-scale wood-residue biorefinery
  • Technical project management across development projects
  • Bridging technical, commercial and regulatory requirements
  • Multidisciplinary coordination from concept through EPC and operations

One team across the critical value chain

Waste & feedstockProject developmentTech commercialisationCapital & governanceInternational scale-up

Working with waste, or on a waste‑to‑X project?

We work with waste owners and managers, project developers, technology providers and plant operators. Our office is at Parkveien 55 in Oslo, close to Solli plass and Nationaltheatret station.