Knut Nesse joined Desert Control in January 2019 as chairman of the board. Nesse has extensive CEO experience working for larger international companies within the animal nutrition and fish feed industry. Nesse is currently the CEO of AKVA Group.

His experience includes 12 years of Skretting Group (part of Nutreco) (2006 – 2012) and 6 years as CEO of Nutreco (2012 – 2018). Nesse further lead the “public to private” process in 2015 in which Nutreco was sold for about 30 bill NOK to the SHV Group and delisted from the Amsterdam stock exchange. During his 12-year tenure as CEO, Nesse has devoted much of his attention to corporate strategy, culture, and HR. Nesse also has significant experience in areas of R&D, investments and “go to market” processes.

Nesse holds a Bachelor of Management and Management Program from Norwegian School of Management (BI), as well as, an executive MBA from Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) and a CEO program from Harvard Business School.