Berit Ledel Henriksen was elected a Class II director in May 2024. Ms. Henriksen brings extensive experience from her career within banking and finance. She serves as a director of Ferd Holding AS, a Norwegian investment company that manages a broad portfolio of privately owned and Nordic listed companies. Furthermore, Ms. Henriksen also serves on the board of directors of four other privately held companies in Norway. She is Chair of the Nomination Committee of Norsk Hydro ASA and member of the Nomination Committee of Equinor ASA, two Norwegian listed companies. From 1985 to 2017, Ms. Henriksen held a range of management positions at DNB, Norway’s largest financial services group, where she focused on shipping, energy, and other international industries. She was Head of DNB Americas in New York between 1998 and 2004. Ms. Henriksen most recently served as DNB’s Executive Vice President and Global Head of Energy (Power & Renewables and Oil & Gas), where she oversaw a large portfolio in various loans and investments. Her oversight spanned the entire investment life cycle including, but not limited to, deal origination, credit risk analysis, corporate customer performance monitoring and overall portfolio exposure management. She served as an independent director of Eneti Inc. from 2019 to 2023, and was a member of the Eneti Inc. Audit Committee in 2023 until its merger with Cadeler A/S in December 2023. Ms. Henriksen also previously held various other bank related board positions. Prior to her banking career Ms. Henriksen worked in shipping for a product tanker company where she held various positions within chartering and investments. Ms. Henriksen has an MBA from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario, and a BSc from the Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.