Kjetil Istad has a master’s degree in economics from the Norwegian School of Management and has completed the specialist health service’s top management program. He has extensive experience from public procurement, where he has been purchasing manager at a hospital, director of procurement and logistics at Helse Sør-Øst RHF and CEO of Norwegian Hospital Procurement Trust. Istad is passionate about the development of the health care system and about competence building as a basis for this.

Istad currently works with sales in Ignite Procurement AS and is a board member of Medeasy Group AS.