Marit Røed Ødegaard joined Desert Control in 2020. She has over 30 years of international business experience from the chemicals and fertilizer industries. She has held a variety of positions, on local and global levels, in finance, product management, business development, corporate strategy, sales and marketing, and human resources. She has also been a non-executive director on several boards of public companies and other institutions.

Ødegaard holds an MSc in Business from Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and an MBA from London Business School and Keio University, Tokyo.