I CECILIE GUDESEN TORP I
Cecilie Gudesen Torp
Cecilie is a city-girl, and the whole family likes to travel. This is a family portrait from Paris.
Managing Director for DNV Product Assurance AS I am a “city girl” and love to meet friends for coffee, dinner, shopping or strolling around. I am 46 years old and live in Oslo with my husband and 2 children, 11 and 15 years old. In our free time, we also like to spend time visiting our cabin in the mountains where we enjoy outdoor activities. In the summer, we like boating and to visit Fredrikstad, where both me and my husband are from, to meet family and relax by the sea. In our family, we like to travel. During 2012 to 2015 we lived in Busan, South Korea, where my husband was the regional manager for Korea and Japan in DNV Oil and Gas. I worked with the certification of medical equipment for DNV Business Assurance. That was an amazing time. To live and work abroad, connecting with new friends and travelling in Korea and Southeast Asia. Personally, this experience has been important and taught me a lot about intercultural relations and different ways of living and working. PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE AND WORK EXPERIENCE I have always been enthusiastic about technology and started out by taking a Cand Scient/M. Sc. in Physics at the University of Oslo. During the last part of my studies, I also got very interested in Medicine and studied additional topics within biology.
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This combination got me into my first job at Ullevål University hospital, with a strong and interesting environment for medical device technology. We worked with the early stages of digital x-ray technology and image quality optimization. After this, I joined the Norwegian radiation authority (Statens Strålevern) where I focused on radiation safety related to Computed Tomography (CT) scanning. When DNV had an opening in Product Assurance CE-marking Medical devices, I tought it was a good opportunity to look at the technology from a different angle and to work with manufacturers. In 2001, I joined DNV and the job turned out to be the most interesting journey I could imagine. I have now worked in DNV with CE-marking of Medical devices for 20 years. I have had many different roles and been a part of the development of the service and global network in DNV. It has never been a boring day, always a new customer, people, technology, interpretations and discussions. MY ROLE TODAY Since 2019, I have held the role of Managing Director for DNV Product Assurance AS. My main responsibility is to head the Notified Bodies that DNV has in Norway, also being responsible for our accreditations. I work very closely with Bjørn Spongsveen, who is responsible for the Industrial Noti-
