Daniel Skjeldam

Daniel Andreas Skjeldam (born 2 September 1975 in Saint Didier sur Rochefort) is a Norwegian business leader and the current chief executive officer of Hurtigruten.

[1] Skjeldam holds an MBA from the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen[2] in 2001,[3] his final paper entitled "Success factors for low-cost airlines."

After graduation he was part of the start-up team[4] of Norwegian Air Shuttle where he started out on short-term contracts, then became head of airport operations, chief of the route network and revenue management, before he finished with five years as its commercial director.

[5] Trygve Hegnar, the largest shareholder in Hurtigruten, personally headhunted Skjeldam to the position of CEO of the company in the autumn of 2012.

[8] He immediately made major changes to the company: Hurtigruten's headquarters were moved to Tromsø and several properties and non-strategic assets were sold off.