Summary
Bente Nilsen is an experienced leader and entrepreneur with over 30 years of hands-on management and 11 years of executive-level experience, currently serving as Daglig Leder for Sparebank 1-stiftinga Kvinnherad and leading several private companies including Lie Nilsen AS and Nilsen Eigedom AS. She combines strong P&L and budget ownership with personnel leadership, recruitment, and end-to-end operational responsibility across retail, property management, and investment services. Bente has a track record of driving change and business development—having represented hundreds of SPAR stores in national and regional boards and collaborated with partners like ASKO to build solutions for the whole value chain. Her strengths include strategic board work, project delivery, and maintaining rigorous control of contracts and financial operations for diverse portfolios. Based in Herøysund, she brings pragmatic, community-focused development experience and a builder’s mindset, running rental property operations alongside venture activity. An unusual blend of grassroots retail success and governance experience makes her adept at scaling local initiatives into sustainable business models.
11 years of coding experience