Board & Management
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Johan Fredrik Odfjell Johan Fredrik Odfjell has extensive corporate and Board experience. During his executive career, Mr Odfjell held various positions including Chief Executive Officer of AS Investa, Executive Vice President of Skandia and Chief Executive Officer of Vesta-Group. Mr Odfjell currently holds the position of non executive Chairman on the Boards of Hansa Borg Bryggerier, Westfal-Larsen Chemical Carriers and UMOE. Mr Odfjell also serves as a non executive director of the Boards of Bergen University, Mowinckels Rederi, Den Nationale Scene, Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration and Frammuseet. Mr Odfjell has a BA from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and a MBA from Harvard University.
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Erik Gloersen Mr Gloersen is currently the Chairman of the Board of Skuld. He has held a number of Board and management positions within the offshore and shipping industry, including Vice President of Transocean, Chairman of Board of Frigstad Discoverer and Chairman of Ocean Heavylift Ltd. Mr Gloersen holds an MBA from the Norwegian School of Business (NHH).
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Kjell Almskog Mr Almskog has held a number of senior executive positions including 13 years at the international ABB group, during which he served as deputy group CEO and head of its oil, gas and petrochemicals division. He was the chief executive of Kvaerner from 1998 until its merger with Aker in 2001. He was appointed non-executive chairman of Index Resources ASA, a Norwegian listed mining and exploration company in November 2007. He has been a non-executive Director of Petrofac Limited since 2005 and currently serves as the Senior Independent Director. He also serves as the Deputy Chairman of the Kverneland Group and as senior adviser of the Taylor Group.
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Petter Høie Petter Høie has a Master in Business and Economics (Siviløkonom), Norwegian School of Management. He has a background in the offshore contracting business. He started his career doing business development for Norwegian ship owner Fred Olsen in 1996. His focus was on floating production, FPSOs, and in 1998 he co-founded Scantank Offshore AS, which was bought by Bergesen d.y. ASA, one of the world’s largest ship owning companies. The company was later renamed Bergesen Offshore. He remained on as Commercial Director and was responsible for negotiating all major FPSO charter contracts. Bergesen Offshore is today a significant FPSO contractor listed on the Oslo Stock exchange. In 2005 he joined tanker owner Frontline, the world’s largest transporter of crude oil, to develop an FPSO business unit. The unit is today set up as a stand-alone FPSO contracting company named Sea Production where he was Deputy CEO/COO until forming Equinox Offshore in September 2007.
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Stefan Smeds Mr. Smeds is Director of Projects and Operations and is responsible for development and execution of vessel conversions and operations including management of related disciplines. Mr. Smeds holds a Master in Business Administration from the University of Wales, a Bachelor in Marine Engineering from Alands Tekniska Skola and a Diploma in Marine Surveying from North West Kent College. He has been active within the shipping industry since 1981. He was one of the pioneers starting up Star Cruises operations when the company was founded in 1993 and held the position of Technical Director New building projects from 1995 to 2000. Subsequently, he assumed the position of Assistant Vice President of Operations from 2001 until 2009. During his tenure at Star Cruises, he was responsible for concept and specification development, plan approvals and site management for several new buildings such as Superstar Virgo and Norwegian Star at Meyer Werft in Germany and was the owner representative for the new building of a large fast ferry at Austal Shipyard in Australia. He has since been in charge of 20 dry dockings, life cycle management and conversion projects.
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Elizabeth Back Elizabeth Back has a Bachelor of Laws; Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies). She is a qualified lawyer with over eight years post qualification experience. Ms Back spent two years at Clayton Utz in Perth in their energy and resources division, after which she joined the mergers and acquisitions team at Minter Ellison in Melbourne as a Senior Associate. Whilst at Minter Ellison Ms Back worked on the initial public offering of a number of companies. She joined an oil company full time in September 2005. She has extensive experience in relation to contracting within the construction, maritime, drilling, installation and operation and maintenance areas.
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Denis Divers Mr Divers has vast experience in the offshore accommodation business and will be responsible for the Company’s business development activities worldwide. Mr Divers has more than 30 years experience in the oil industry and 13 years experience in the offshore accommodation market. Mr Divers has specialized in the offshore accommodation market and has extensive experience in the floatel market. He was Director for Business Development at Prosafe Offshore for over 10 years and was the CEO of Ocean Hotels. Mr Divers has had key senior management positions within offshore accommodation, specialized vessels, and subsea well intervention companies.
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