Gunnar Holen is the CEO of Nordic Electrofuel since February 2016. He has successfully developed the company and funded it with seed capital,  negotiated and secured important contracts together with his team, which includes off-take, utilities, CO2 supply, long term renewable Power, Oxygen deliveries / distribution.

He has built up the organization with a very high qualified management team and brought the company through Basic Engineering and ready for construction. He secured a maximum grant award of €40 million from the EU Innovation Fund in July 2023, where the company also scored highest of all Mid-sized projects achieving 82.5 out of 90 points.

Gunar Holen is a Corporate and investment finance professional with 31 years of Investment banking experience. He has very extensive experience from fundraising and M & A Activity. Leading and participating in huge amount of Placements.

Previously, he’s a top rated and highly profiled Investment analyst both domestically and internationally. He has shown high entrepreneurship through founding and developing an Investment Bank from 2 to 50 employees and going from NOK0 to NOK80 in Revenues in five years.

Co-founder of two investments banks and CEO of both. He has advised many companies which under his guidance have grown to large companies. He has been a significant contributor for the Companies he worked in.

He’s the Co-Founder and previous board member of Norge Mining and CEO of Norwegian subsidiary Norge Mineraler a company which has reported one of largest mineral discoveries in the world in the recent years.