Norway’s healthcare sector sits at a difficult intersection: life-critical services, highly sensitive personal data, complex supplier ecosystems, and increasing digital dependency. Security leaders in this space are not only defending systems but enabling care delivery, clinical continuity, and patient trust. The security leaders below stand out for operating where downtime, data loss, or regulatory failure can have real human consequences.
Frode Beckmann Nilsen — Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, Dignio
Frode Beckmann Nilsen combines executive technology leadership with hands-on security ownership in a healthcare technology context. With deep experience across product development, cloud platforms, compliance, and large-scale transformation, the role reflects a rare balance of strategy and execution. A background in scaling organisations, navigating mergers and acquisitions, and modernising complex environments positions security as an enabler of innovation in digital health rather than a constraint.
Aleksander Hausmann — Chief Information Security Officer, Diffia
Aleksander Hausmann brings a strong blend of healthcare, regulatory, and international security experience to Diffia. With responsibility spanning information security, privacy, and medical device regulation, the focus is on regulated healthcare environments where compliance and patient safety overlap. Prior leadership in consulting, hospital security, and NATO cyber operations provides a perspective shaped by both advisory rigor and operational accountability.
Inge Harald Bolme — Chief Information Security Officer, Sykehuset Innlandet
Inge Harald Bolme’s profile reflects deep roots in national defense and cyber education before transitioning into regional hospital security leadership. Experience spanning cryptography, infrastructure security, and cyber doctrine informs a pragmatic approach to protecting healthcare operations. The move from military and defense contexts into hospital environments highlights the growing convergence between critical infrastructure security and healthcare resilience.
Erik Hesmyr — Chief Information Security Officer, Telemark Hospital Trust
Erik Hesmyr brings a systems and service-design mindset to healthcare security, shaped by long experience inside hospital information technology ecosystems. Prior work across health information processing, solution architecture, and risk management informs a security approach grounded in how clinical systems actually operate. The progression from advisory and design roles into a hospital security leadership position reflects experience built from within healthcare delivery itself.
Thor Milde — Chief Security Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, Sykehuspartner HF
Thor Milde operates at one of Norway’s largest healthcare shared-services organizations, supporting tens of thousands of users across multiple hospital trusts. A strong focus on automation, architectural clarity, and operational efficiency reflects the scale and complexity of Sykehuspartner’s mandate. Experience across information technology operations, governance, and compliance positions security as a foundational service that must work reliably across the entire healthcare region.
Helge Lægreid — Chief Information Security Officer, Helse Bergen HF
Helge Lægreid combines deep technical expertise with senior leadership experience across finance, consulting, and healthcare. Prior roles in authentication services, cybersecurity advisory, and national security institutions inform a broad view of identity, access, and trust. At a major hospital trust, this background supports a security posture aligned with both clinical realities and national policy expectations.
John Nedregård — Chief Information Security Officer and Information and Communication Technology Advisor, Helse Møre og Romsdal HF
John Nedregård brings decades of architectural and software experience into a regional healthcare security leadership role. With roots in system development, enterprise architecture, and platform ownership, the approach emphasizes long-term structural resilience. Security is closely tied to how systems are designed, integrated, and evolved over time across hospital environments.
Security Leadership Where Care Depends on Continuity
In hospitals and healthcare, cybersecurity is inseparable from patient safety. The leaders featured here operate across clinical systems, national health infrastructure, medical devices, and digital health platforms, often under tight regulatory and operational constraints. Their work reflects a shared reality: in healthcare, security failures are not abstract risks — they are interruptions to care.