About Board of Directors
Board of Directors
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Thomas Thune Andersen
Chairman of the Board
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Bart H. Heijermans
Director
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Harald J. Norvik
Director
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Arvid Trolle
Director
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David N. Weinstein
Director
We operate internationally as one group.
Mr. Andersen serves as Chairman of Lloyds Register, Vice Chairmen of VKR Holdings, and as director on the Boards of Petrofac Ltd and Scottish & Southern Energy Plc. He brings an in-depth understanding of the oil and gas industry and a proven track record of success after more than 30 years of service with the A.P. Møller-Mærsk Group. Mr. Andersen´s last position with the A.P. Møller-Mærsk Group was as Chief Executive Officer of the oil and gas division from 2004 through 2009. Prior to this position, his career in A.P. Møller-Maersk Group covered senior positions and leadership roles in the USA, (CEO and President from 2000 until 2004), the UK (CEO and President from 1994 until 2000) and in Taiwan, Indonesia, Hong Kong and China for 13 years.
Mr. Heijermans has over 20 years of global experience in subsea construction, oil and gas and deepwater operations from the Americas, Europe and Australasia. Most recently Heijermans was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc., as well as Chairman of CloughHelix Pty Ltd, a joint venture company focused on the provision of light construction services and well intervention in the Asia Pacific Region. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President, Offshore and Gas Storage for Enterprise Products Partners L.P. responsible for the management of offshore pipeline and production assets and the development and execution of USD 1.5 billion of organic growth deepwater infrastructure projects in the Gulf of Mexico. Previously, he held executive and senior level positions at GulfTerra Energy Partners, L.P., El Paso Corporation, Leviathan Gas Pipeline Partners L.P. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC.
Mr. Norvik is an independent consultant and advisor with more than 30 years of public and private sector experience, a large portion of which was in senior management positions overseeing operations in offshore oil and gas markets, including subsea construction and deepwater operations. Mr. Norvik spent 11 years as CEO with Statoil during which time Statoil made the transition to private ownership, and he has also held several senior management roles with the Aker Group. He currently serves on several boards as chairman or director, and he also served as a strategic advisor to ECON Poyry until 2011. Previously, he was Chairman and Partner at ECON Management AS. Mr. Norvik served as Deputy Minister/State Secretary for Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy from 1979 to 1981, Personal Secretary to the Norwegian Prime Minister from 1976 to 1979, and he has held various other positions with governmental organisations throughout his career.
Mr. Trolle currently serves as a Vice President at Oaktree Capital Management in London and has nearly a decade of experience in the financial services sector. Prior to joining Oaktree in 2007, Mr. Trolle worked with mergers and acquisitions in the Corporate Finance division at Lazard and Broadview International, both in London, UK.
Mr. Weinstein is a consultant specialising in leveraged finance and governance issues for companies emerging from different types of reorganization. He has more than 25 years of investment banking and capital markets experience. Recently he served as Managing Director and Group Head, Debt Capital Markets-High Yield and Leveraged Finance at Calyon Securities Inc. and has served as the Head of High yield Capital Markets at BNP Paribas, Bank of Boston/BancBoston Securities Inc., Chase Securities Inc. and Lehman Brothers/Smith Barney Shearson. Mr. Weinstein served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Pioneer Companies and York Research Corporation following their emergence from bankruptcy proceedings and was lead director of Interstate Bakeries Corporation. He currently serves on the board of directors of Georgia Gulf Corporation and Granite Broadcasting Company as well as the boards of several charitable groups involved with education and medical research.
