Elisabeth Gisvold in collaboration with Terravera
Terravera strengthens its modelling and strategic advisory capabilities through a collaboration with sustainability leader Elisabeth Gisvold. Bringing extensive experience in sustainable finance, risk analysis, and systems thinking, she will help businesses turn complex sustainability challenges into actionable insight and long-term value creation.
Elisabeth Gisvold, based in Trondheim, Norway, brings deep expertise in finance, risk, and sustainability to help Terravera strengthen its decision-support models and connect sustainability insights with long-term business value.
From Data to Decision Support
Elisabeth Gisvold is driven by a strong commitment to unlocking the opportunities that arise from combining finance and profitability with sustainable development. Through the collaboration, she aims to contribute her network and experience from the financial and business sectors to support the development of solutions that make sustainability more operational, decision-relevant, and value-creating.
“What makes Terravera particularly interesting is the company’s ability to turn data into actual decision support. Sustainability is not just about documenting emissions — it is about how organizations use insights to make smarter decisions, understand risk, and prioritize effectively,” says Gisvold.
The Connection Between Sustainability, Economics, and Competitiveness
Terravera develops models and analyses that connect climate, nature, economics, and value chains. Through data-driven decision support and value chain modelling, they not only highlight climate impact, but also economic consequences, risk, and strategic priorities.
“Reliable data and well-documented analyses are becoming increasingly important for management teams, boards, and investors. If sustainability is to be integrated into corporate governance and financial decision-making, organizations need to understand how sustainability affects competitiveness, profitability, and risk over time,” she says.
System Perspective and Value Chains
Terravera works at both system and value chain level to provide organizations with better insight into the relationship between sustainable transition and monetary value creation.
“We need to become clearer that our models do not only measure climate impact, but also highlight economic consequences and strategic priorities. Elisabeth brings extensive expertise in finance, investments, corporate governance, board work, and risk perspectives, which will be highly valuable as we continue to develop Terravera,” says Tommy Olsen, CEO of Terravera.
Competence in Sustainable Transition
Gisvold brings extensive experience from the financial sector, with leadership roles spanning strategy, risk management, investments, corporate governance, and sustainable transformation. Throughout her career, she has worked closely with financial institutions, boards, investors, and corporate clients on strategic decision-making, capital allocation, and risk management in times of significant market and regulatory change.
Her previous roles include:
COO and CRO at Danica Pensjonsforsikring, where she worked with enterprise risk management, climate risk analyses, capital planning, and corporate governance
CFO at Nidaros Sparebank, with responsibility for financing, liquidity management, capital markets, and strategic business development
Senior Corporate Risk Advisor and Relationship Manager in banking, advising large corporate clients on financial and operational risk management, capital structure, financing solutions, and strategic priorities
Investor and portfolio manager with many years of experience in asset management, investment strategies, and market risk across several Norwegian financial institutions
Board member and chair across financial institutions, businesses, and industry organisations
Chair of the Sustainability Forum at Næringsforeningen i Trondheimsregionen, where she works to strengthen collaboration, competence sharing, and sustainable transformation across industries and businesses
In recent years, Gisvold has also completed executive eduaction programs in sustainable business model innovation, climate risk, and sustainable financial analytics at the Norwegian School of Economics.
With Gisvold on the team, Terravera further strengthens its ability to help businesses integrate sustainability, into strategy, risk management, and financial decision-making, creating a stronger foundation for competitiveness and long-term value creation.
