Management Team

Kari Eian Krogstad, President and CEO
Kari E. Krogstad joined MediStim on September 1st 2009. Krogstad holds a M.Sc. degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Oslo as well as a Business degree from IHM Business School.  She has 20 years of experience from the biomedical industry, from commercial roles within the pharma, biotech and medtech sectors.  Krogstad has held senior leadership positions within marketing, sales, business development and general management in Nycomed and Dynal.  Before joining MediStim, she spent 11 years at Dynal, where she lead Invitrogen Dynal in the role as General Manager after the acquisition from Invitrogen in 2005.  
 
 
Thomas Jakobsen, CFO
Thomas Jakobsen joined MediStim as VP Finance in 2001. Previous experience includes Controller and Finance Manager at Sysdeco (1993-1998), and Finance Director of Microtronica Nordic (1998-2001), where he was responsible for building the finance team and converting to a new MIS system. Thomas has a key role in the finance and business development of MediStim. Thomas holds a B.Sc. in Management from the Norwegian School of Management.
 
 
 
Erik Swensen, VP Research & Development
Erik Swensen joined MediStim as VP Research & Development in 2002. Previous experience includes; Development Engineer at ABB, Norway (1996-2002), where he participated in the development of advanced process control systems. From 1999 his main focus was on developing ABB’s new control system for safety critical applications. Beside development work, Erik worked as Project Manager and Group Leader. Erik holds a M.Sc. degree in Engineering Cybernetics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim.
 
 

 

Hæge J.K. Wetterhus, VP Marketing
Hæge J.K. Wetterhus has more than 20-years of experience working with diagnostic, analytical and biotech device companies.  She started her career as a seller of analytical instrumentation, first for Hewlett-Packard (chromatography systems) and later for Boehringer Mannheim/Roche (clinical diagnostics). With her last employer, Invitrogen Dynal , she held a variety of leadership roles in strategic marketing, product development and business development in the area of life science and biotechnology – always with an international focus. Wetterhus is a business economist from BI, chemical engineer from the Technical University of Bergen and has a BSc Honour in molecular biology from the University of Glasgow, UK.

 

Roger Morberg, VP Sales
Roger Morberg joined MediStim in June 2010, and is responsible for international sales. Roger has long experience from the healthcare sector, and is a trained medical professional and has extensive experience from the healthcare industry. Roger has had various roles within Sales and Senior Management positions; from Marquette Electronics, GE Healthcare and Hewlett Packard. Before he joined MediStim he worked for Siemens Medical as Country Manager - Ultrasound.

 

 
 
Anders Lillebø, VP Manufacturing
Anders Lillebø joined MediStim as VP Manufacturing in March 2004. He is responsible for all activities at MediStim’s manufacturing site in Horten. Anders has worked over 20 years in the medical device industry. His last position was Production Manager at GE Vingmed Ultrasound in Horten, a leading manufacturer of ultrasound equipment. Anders brings expertise in world-class manufacturing of medical devices to MediStim. He manages several projects related to improvements in the supply chain, production flow and quality. Anders holds a B.Sc. degree in Engineering from Vestfold Engineering School. 
 
 
Rigmor Blix, VP Quality Assuranse and Regulatory Affairs
Rigmor Blix joined MediStim as customer service manager in 1989. Rigmor became responsible for establishing and implementing the Quality Assurance/Regulatory Affairs system in 1997. This system is based on world-class standards for development and manufacturing of medical devices. Riogmor coordinates all internal and external quality audits. With over 20 years of experience at MediStim, Rigmor has extensive knowledge of the Company, its operations and its products.
 
 
 

Ole Jørgen Robsrud, Managing Director Medistim Norge AS
Kir-Op AS was established in 1985 and the company`s focus has been distribution of medical equipment. The company was acquired by Medistim ASA and merged with Medistim Norge AS in 2006. Medistim Norge AS is among the leading distributors in the country. In addition to being a distributor for a number of international companies in the Norwegian market within general surgery and opthalmology, Medistim Norge also sells Medistim's proprietary products for quality assurance of cardiac-, vascular- and other surgery. Ole Jørgen comes from the position as Country Manager in HemoCue Norway, a company that sells diagnostic analysis equipment for the health sector. He also has 13 years of experience in the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, where he has held a variety of management positions in sales and marketing both on national and international level. Ole Jørgen holds a Master of Business and Economics from Norwegian School of Management (BI) and University of Florida. 

 
Howie Milstein, President, MediStim USA, Inc.
Howie Milstein joined the company in January, 2005, to drive top and bottom line success in the United States, Canada and Latin America.  With extensive experience in sales and commercial leadership in the medical device industry, he has engineered a hybrid sales force in the U.S., oversees a continental sales operation with an office in Mendoza, Argentina, and nurtures a distribution collaboration with MediStim’s partner in Canada, Medtronic.  Howie’s experience derives from past employment with Depuy Orthopedics as a sales representative, Smith & Nephew Endoscopy as an independent distributor, and FH Orthopedics (the U.S. arm of the French company Fournitures Hospitalaires) as the U.S. Sales Manager.  Howie holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biochemistry and exercise physiology, respectively, from the University of Minnesota.