Karen Elisabeth Ohm Heskja has departed from her role heading up DNB Ventures and joined BDO as director of business and strategy advisory.

Karen Elisabeth Ohm Heskja, investment manager and head of DNB Ventures, the corporate venturing unit for Norway’s largest financial services group, has joined accountancy firm BDO as director of business and strategy advisory.

Ohm Heskja, a GCV Powerlist 2020 award winner, had helped set up DNB Ventures in late 2017 and said she would be “connected to the corporate venture arm of BDO as part of my work”.

Anders Østensvig, board member of DNB Ventures since the start of…

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