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Kurt S Helland

New Chief Executive for Viju AS

01. August 2009
Kurt S. Helland has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Viju AS, and he will assume his responsibilities no later than 01.08.09.
Kurt joins us from a position as Director of Infrastructure in the Ergo Group. Prior to that he was Managing Director of Allianse Operations AS, a company in the Allianse Group with annual revenues of NOK 320 million and 190 employees at a total of seven locations.

Kurt was deeply involved in the development of Allianse ASA in the period 2000-2006, expanding it from a locally-owned company with significant financial challenges into a leading Norwegian listed ICT company with good profitability. In the summer of 2006, Allianse was acquired by Ergo Group and for the last three years Knut has played a major role in the positive integration of the two companies.


For further information, please contact: 
Rune Jensen, Chairman of the Board, telephone + 47 480 19 702, email: rje@viju.no

 

About Viju AS
Viju AS is a leading company in Norway and Sweden supplying videoconferencing, communication and visualisation solutions for the petroleum industry and other sectors (teaching, public authorities, health services, banking/finance and the media). Advanced visualisation solutions for control rooms, production rooms and collaboration rooms are extremely important in so-called Integrated Operations in the petroleum sector, where the company has an especially strong position. Revenues in 2008 reached NOK 284 million, up from NOK 127 million in the preceding year. Viju has offices in the largest cities in Norway and Sweden, and is planning further organic and structural growth.

A company undergoing strong growth

Viju is a company which has rapidly established itself as a Nordic market leader in visual collaboration solutions. This has been achieved not only by providing the best solutions but also by putting the needs of our customers first and by setting rigorous demands to quality in everything we do.