Our Team
Finnbogi A. Baldvinsson
OWNER and MANAGING DIRECTOR
Over 30 years of executive experience in the seafood industry, including being a shareholder, board member, and CEO of some of the largest players in the industry. Successfully restructured financially distressed companies; participated in consolidating companies from harvesting to secondary processing; led greenfield projects from start to profitability; coordinated and managed international expansion and process optimization across countries and organizations. Visionary and passionate believer in the seafood industry.
Key skills and competencies:
Change management • Restructuring • M&A • New Business Development • Financing & Refinancing • International Management • Process creation and optimization • Innovative technologies implementation
- Team assistant and office manager at FAB Consulting since 2017
- M.A. in Linguistics, with focus on French and English languages
- 12 years Executive Assistant, Pickenpack Germany
- 8 years administration and Assistant to Export Director, Pickenpack Germany
- After completion of her studies, Cornelia worked as a translator and interpreter in a variety of areas, such as technology, medicine, law and business, among others being assigned to foreign ministers and dignitaries visiting, working or representing their countries in Germany
- Fjölnir joined FAB Consulting GmbH in 2018 and has been working on seafood related consulting projects in Germany, U.S., Norway, Iceland and the U.K. since.
- Managing Director of a new frozen fish value added processing facility startup in Germany from 2011 to 2017.
- In July 2016, Trident Seafoods, the largest seafood group in North America acquired the assets of TST and hired Fjölnir as one of two MDs for the newly founded Pickenpack Seafoods GmbH.
- Consulted for international seafood companies, such as in refinancing and M&A between 2009 and 2010.
- Research and credit analyst at Landsbanki Canada from 2006-2009
- Fjölnir studied at Boston University and received a B.A. Cum Laude in Economics and International Relations in 2005.
- Deckhand on Icelandic freezing trawlers in Icelandic, Norwegian and Russian waters in summers of 2003 and 2004.
- Consultant at FAB Consulting since 2017, involved in diverse seafood projects in Germany Spain, Iceland, USA and Egypt.
- Quality Manager at German Seafood Trading Company in 2016.
- Project Manager at Pickenpack Europe 2014 – 2015, focused on entering the chilled seafood segment
- Successful implementation of Energy Management System – ISO 50001 at Pickenpack Europe’s two factories in Germany, Pickenpack in Lüneburg and TST in Ihlow 2012 – 2014
- Aaron has experience with project management, food product development, environmental licences and implementation of energy and environmental management systems as well as their certification
- Aaron has a M.S. in Food Science from HAW Hamburg.
- Aaron holds German TÜV certificates as
- environmental management specialist
- environmental manager
- environmental auditor
- energy management manager
- energy management auditor