Mintra Holding AS announced that it has promoted Kjetil Flood to the position of chief commercial officer, following the recent appointment of Torbjørn Blom-Hagen as chief financial officer. The two new appointments to Mintra’s senior leadership team will support the company’s strategic aims of achieving organic and structural growth. Prior to stepping up to the CCO role – which became vacant when previous incumbent Kevin Short was appointed chief executive officer – Bergen-based Mr. Flood was international sales director for the UK and Europe. He joined Mintra when it acquired OCS HR in 2014. The appointment will support Mintra’s strategic growth programme, which focuses on expansion through acquisition, moving into new geographic regions and adding new safety-critical industries to its core customer portfolio of energy and maritime. A veteran of Scandinavia’s technology industry, Mr. Flood has worked in high-level commercial roles for major companies including Altea and TietoEvry, the region’s largest suppliers of IT hardware and software respectively. He was also involved in the launch of Norway’s first commercial television broadcasting station, TV2. He predicts that Mintra will continue its rapid expansion in the maritime industry, where it is now considered a credible challenger to the dominant supplier in the sector. This year it acquired the German-headquartered maritime digital learning and crew competence management specialists, Safebridge, and made a significant investment into doubling the number of industry-specific courses in its eLearning library.