Christine Lundberg Larsen
Leader Amesto Footprint
Christine’s core competency is in leadership, sustainable business models, organizational development, innovation, and financial management. She has a passion for sustainable business life, and the past few years she has participated in several national and international networks and projects, focusing on the intersection between sustainability, economics, and finance. She is a trained auditor, and has master’s degrees in management, sustainability, and finance.
After four years as an auditor with PWC, she managed various departments in Gjensidige for 14 years, having operational results responsibility. To many she is mostly known from her time as managing director in the industry organization Regnskap Norge, where she established the circular accounting cluster, and initiated the development of the Norwegian standard for sustainable reporting, NSRS.
Christine has through all her years as a leader focused on developing the people in the organizations and has worked considerably with leadership development. She is experienced in leading strategic processes and contributing to project execution. As a speaker at Athenas she shares her insights with great engagement. She is also a guest lecturer at BI, UNMB and Høgskolen Innlandet.
Co-author on the books:
Innovasjon i praksis (2014)
Sirkulær økonomi, regnskap og virksomhetsstyring (2023)
Kave Jangi
BI developer and systems analyst
Kave’s core competency lies in data analytics, BI development, cloud-based solution design, climate accounting analysis and systems simulations. He works with Norwegian and international organizations to solve advanced strategic challenges related to climate footprint and sustainability, based on the GHG protocol. He has among other things developed the BI solution for Amesto Footprint to create dynamic climate reports.
In addition he works on various ERP and CRM systems to integrate accounting data in the Footprint project using cloud-based technologies.
Kave has a master’s degree from the University of Bergen, specializing in systems dynamics, mathematical systems simulations, and sustainable development. Prior to moving to Norway he completed a master’s degree from Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) in Tehran in financial engineering. Kave started his studies with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering. He has worked on a wide range of tasks in finance and technology, including as project engineer, project manager, finance analyst, data analyst and BI developer.
Maria Peltokangas
Consultant and senior sustainability advisor
Maria’s core competence is in management, organizational development and strategy, social responsibility, and sustainability communications. She has a passion for making sustainability even more relevant for all parties in business life. The past eight years he has worked full time with sustainability and social responsibility with Norwegian and international businesses. She is the main author of the book Bærekraftig Business (2021).
She has a Bachelor of Management from the Norwegian Business School BI, and further studies in sustainability as a competitive advantage, and board competence.
Maria is a certified Climate Reality Leader and a trained B Leader, and assists businesses with the holistic sustainability certification B Corp.
Maria is recognized for her ability to identify possibilities, and through her creative skills help find novel solutions to problems and challenges, often in collaboration with other parties. As a specialist in social responsibility and sustainability Maria has chosen to focus on how businesses can implement a sustainable practice to maximize value generation for the whole business value chain.
