HitecVision names seafood chief as partner

HitecVision Private Equity has hired Atle Eide, former CEO of Marine Harvest, as partner.

Eide has been CEO at Marine Harvest, a Norwegian seafood company, for four years, during which time he led the turnaround and development of the company from a financially-distressed mid-size company to the world’s largest seafood company. His previous experience includes the CEO position of a number of listed and unlisted companies.

He has been non-executive chairman of the board of the fund HitecVision Private

Equity III since its inception in 2002, and has also held a number of non-executive

board positions in companies such as Fokus Bank, Acta, Cermaq and SalMar.