Ragnhild Katteland was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) designate of Aquora in December 2025, ahead of the company’s launch as Aquora in January 2026.
Ragnhild is an experienced energy and infrastructure leader with more than 30 years’ experience in the high-voltage subsea cable industry and wider energy sector. Her experience spans executive leadership, engineering, operations, commercial management and the delivery of major electricity transmission and renewable energy infrastructure.
As Aquora’s CEO designate, she is leading Aquora’s development of high-voltage subsea cable installation capability, with domestic manufacturing planned to follow.
Subsea Cable & Energy Career
Ragnhild has been part of Aquora’s leadership team since March 2025, when she joined the company (then known as XLCC) as Chief Sales and Delivery Officer. As Chief Sales and Delivery Officer, Ragnhild was responsible for driving XLCC’s commercial and delivery strategy, advancing the company’s planned high-voltage subsea cable installation and manufacturing capabilities.
Ragnhild spent more than three decades with Nexans, where she served as Strategy Advisory of Nexans Norway (2024), CEO of Nexans Norway (2019-2024). During this period, she also held senior Group roles, including Executive Vice President Generation & Transmission (2020-2023), Vice President, Subsea & Land Systems (2018-2019); and Vice President Subsea Energy Systems (2017-2018), alongside earlier roles across its submarine high-voltage and subsea energy businesses, supporting the development and delivery of major electricity transmission, interconnector and offshore wind infrastructure.
Skills & Experience
Across her senior leadership roles at Nexans, Ragnhild’s experience encompassed major international high-voltage subsea cable projects supporting offshore wind and electricity transmission.
This included the export cable system for Scotland’s 1,075MW Seagreen offshore wind farm, the 704MW Revolution Wind project in the US, and BorWin6, a 235km HVDC connection designed to transmit up to 980MW from the German North Sea to the onshore grid. Her experience also spans pioneering floating offshore wind developments, including the Hywind Demo and Hywind Scotland floating wind projects.
Ragnhild holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Norwegian University of Technology in Trondheim, Norway.