Morten Meland worked at Goldman Sachs Bank AG Zürich for 15 years. Morten built one of the longest serving and most productive teams in the Private Wealth Management business with Clients in Europe and Asia. He was instrumental in creating specialized coverage for Family Offices and a Member of the Executive Committee of the Bank. Since 2013,

Morten advises a select number of Clients and Family Offices on optimal structuring of their investments, sourcing, evaluating and managing strategic ownership positions and overviewing strategic Asset Allocation decisions. He invests privately as well as alongside some of his Clients in a limited number of opportunities. He holds a lic.oec HSG from the University of St. Gallen, speaks Norwegian, German and English.

Mattias Haughom began his career at SDBN medio 2020. Mattias holds a Master of Arts in Business and Finance from Edinburgh Business School, and a Master of Science degree in Business Analytics from BI Norwegian Business School. He speaks Norwegian and English.

Ane joined SDBN ultimo 2018. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Studies from Korea University in South Korea and a master’s degree in Public Administration with a specialisation in Innovation from Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. Prior to working with SDBN, she worked at DNB as a Customer Advisor. She speaks Norwegian, English and Korean.

Matthias Frisch has worked at Goldman Sachs for 14 years as Head of Equities, Head of Equities Derivatives, as well as the CEO of GS Bank. Prior to working at Goldman Sachs, he worked at Julius Baer as Head of Equities Derivatives, and after his tenure at Goldman Sachs, he has been the CEO of Horizon21 Wealth Management. Between 2009 and 2013, Matthias had different roles at UBS; CEO of Investment Banking Switzerland, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking EMEA, Head of Global Banks Business and Member of the Executive Committee of UBS Switzerland. He holds positions as a Board Member, Investor and Advisor, within Asset and Wealth Management, Fintech, Venture Capital, Private Equity and Hedge Funds. He holds a lic.oec HSG from the University of St. Gallen.

Emilio Galli-Zugaro is the Chairman of Methodos S.p.A Milan, a change management company. He is a board member of the Allianz Cultural Foundation in Munich as well as the Giovanni Bassetti Foundation in Milan. He sits on several advisory boards (Nunatak, Actyx, GK Personalberatung et al.). As a Certified Business Coach, Emilio coaches C-suite people, teaches and publishes on leadership issues. From 1992 to 2015, he was Head of Group Communications of Allianz. Since 1996, he has been an Associate Lecturer of Corporate Communication and Crisis Communication at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Since 2006, Emilio has also been lecturing in Communicative Leadership at the executive programs of ESMT in Berlin. In 2016, he founded the Orvieto Academy for Communicative Leadership offering leadership workshops in Germany and in Umbria (Italy) for executives and communications professionals. He has co-authored two books  (“The Listening Leader”) in 2017, and “Ich bin so frei – Raus aus dem Hamsterrad und rein in den richtigen Job”, in 2018.

Olga Godinho joined the Board of SDBN in 2015. She started her career with Investec Bank in 1987. Subsequently she worked at the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong, in a team of 6 including the Chairman, responsible for establishing the framework for listed derivatives and for approving new issuance of derivatives. In 1995 she joined Goldman Sachs, Equity Derivatives Structured Products in New York, structuring and pricing equity derivative solutions for Institutional Clients. In 2001 she started her own business working with select global Clients, advising, negotiating and acquiring high value financial investments, real estate and art. She holds an MBA from London Business School, is fluent in Portuguese, English, German and speaks some French.

Knut Bergo joined the Board of SDBN in 2018. He is a lawyer, and former associate and partner of Advokatfirmaet Wikborg, Rein & Co (1992-2003) and partner of Advokatfirmaet Wiersholm (2003-2016) and Advokatfirmaet Schjødt (2018-2021). He specializes in finance law and general legal theory and has written a number of books and articles on these subject including Børs- og verdipapirrett and Tekst og Virkelighet i rettskildelæren. He is a former associate professor of the Norwegian Business Institute (BI) and regularly lectures at the University of Oslo. Knut was admitted to the Norwegian bar in 1994 and holds a Cand. Jur. and a Dr. Jur. degree from the University of Oslo. He speaks Norwegian and English.

Dominique began her career trading cash shares in the Equities Division of Goldman Sachs, then moved to the buy side in 2002, and has spent the last 20 years as an investor. In 2007 she founded Sonian Capital Management, a global long/short value investing firm with a particular focus on European and Japanese companies. Dominique holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MBA from Columbia. She is an avid collector of contemporary and vintage photography and serves on the Photography Acquisitions Committee of the V&A in London. She speaks English and French.

Christian Wist is the CEO of the real estate company NHP Eiendom AS in Trondheim. From 2007 -2015 he was a Partner with Pretor Advokat AS, where he specialized in Technology, Telecom, Contractual and Corporate law. Christian also served as a Trustee in Bankruptcy, appointed by the Court. Prior to Pretor, Christian worked at Telia Marked AS and Enitel AS in connection with the deregulation of the Norwegian telecom industry in 1997 and 1998. Later Christian worked as a lawyer assisting the Trustee adv. Knut Ro managing bankruptcy negotiations in Enitel AS/ASA. He was admitted to the Bar (Adv. fullmektig) in 2000. He holds a Cand. Jur. from the University of Oslo, speaks Norwegian and English.