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Jens
Ulltveit-Moe
Chairperson (elected 2002)
Mr. Ulltveit-Moe has been our chair-man of the Board of Directors since September 2002. He is the founder and has been president and chief executive officer of Umoe AS, a shipping and industry company, since 1984. From 2000 to 2004, he was the president of the Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry. From 1980 to 1984, Mr. Ulltveit-Moe served as managing director of Knutsen OAS. From 1972 to 1980, he was managing director of the tanker division of SHV Corporation. From 1968 to 1972, Mr. Ulltveit-Moe was an associate with Mc-Kinsey & Company, Inc. in New York and London. Mr. Ulltveit-Moe holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and a master’s degree in international affairs from the School of International Affairs, Columbia University, New York. |
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Harald
Norvik
Board member (elected 2003)
Mr. Norvik is a partner in the consulting company ECON. He is chair-man of the Board of Directors in the publishing firm Aschehoug, member of the Board of Directors in ConocoPhillips and member of the Board of Directors in the service and technology provider Ability Group. He served as chief executive officer of Statoil from 1988 to 1999. He was finance director and a member of the executive board of the Aker Group from 1981 to 1988. He served as personal secretary to the Prime Minister of Norway and as Deputy Minister in The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy from 1979 to 1981. Mr. Norvik has a Master of Science Degree in Business from The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. |
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Siri
Beate Hatlen
Board member (elected 2006)
Ms. Hatlen has been an independent consultant since 1996 and worked as manager for hire in several companies, including the software company Flexim Infowiz, the publishing firm Universitetsforlaget AS and the art museum Henie Onstad Kunstsenter. She is now Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the hospital Helse Øst RHF, the wine retailer AS Vinmono-polet, the real estate developer Undervisningsbygg KF, the industrial developer SIVA SF, the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund, Statens Lånekasse and the publishing firm Samlaget. In addition she holds board memberships among others in the industrial group Kongsberggruppen ASA, the power company Buskerud Energi AS and the university NTNU. From 1986 to 1996, she held various positions in Statoil’s Project Division. In 1984, she worked for one year at Elf Aquitaine, France on an exchange basis. From 1981 to 1983 she worked for Norwegian Petroleum Consultants. Ms. Hatlen holds a master of science degree in Process Engineering from the Technical University of Trondheim and a master’s degree in business administration from INSEAD. |
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Wenche
Kjølås
Board member (elected 2006)
Ms. Kjølås is currently working as chief financial officer in the logistic provider Grieg Logistics AS. Prior to that, she served as chief financial officer in the food company Kavli Holding AS. From 1997 to 1999, she acted as Managing Director in O.Kavli AS, Norway, and from 1995 as Financial Director in Kavli Holding AS. From 1993 to 1995, she was Financial Manager in the food retailer Hakon Gruppen AS in Bergen. From 1986 to 1992, she was employed with Touche Ross Management Consultants; from 1986 to 1990 as Management Consultant in Bergen and from 1990 to 1992 as Manager. Ms. Kjølås has board experience from several companies, including the aqua-culture company Cermaq ASA, the offshore vessel company DOF ASA, the shared services provider Grieg Group Resources AS, O.Kavli AS and the dairy Q-Meieriene AS. She is also member of the Corporate Council of Vesta Insurance AS and the General Assembly of Sparebankstiftelsen DnBNOR. |
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Francis
Gugen
Board member (elected 2003)
Mr. Gugen is currently active as a consultant and an investor in the energy industry. He served with Amerada Hess Corporation for eighteen years, from 1982 to 2000, holding various positions including chief executive of Amerada Hess UK from 1995 to 2000 and chief executive of Northwestern Europe from 1998 to 2000. Mr. Gugen acts as chairman and non-executive director for various other companies, including Island Gas Limited and The Britannia Building Society, where he also sits on the audit committee. Mr. Gugen has earlier worked for Arthur Andersen and is a UK chartered accountant. |
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Holly
Van Deursen
Board member (elected 2006)
Ms. Van Deursen currently divides her time between advising and investing in start-up companies and serving as a non-executive director of Petroleum Geo-Services, Anson Industries and a not-for-profit school. She served as a member of BP plc’s top-forty executive team, as Group Vice President Petrochemicals from 2003 to 2005 and Group Vice President Strategy from 2001 to 2003. Prior to these executive positions, Ms. Van Deursen held a variety of senior roles with BP and Amoco Corporation in Chicago, London and Hong Kong. She has previously served on the Board of Directors of the American Chemistry Council, as well as Amoco joint ventures in Korea, Taiwan and Japan. Ms. Van Deursen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas and an Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Michigan. |
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Daniel J. Piette
Board member (elected 2007)
Mr. Piette is currently working as CEO in Open Spirit Corporation. Open Spirit Corporation is an independent software company focused on providing integration solutions for upstream applications and data to E&P companies. Mr. Piette has a BS in Mining Engineering with Honors from the University of Wisconsin. Before joining Open Spirit Corporation in 2003 Mr. Piette was a Business Unit Manager at Input/Output, running the Land Data Acquisition Systems group in 2002 and 2003. From 2001 he worked as COO for S/N Technologies which was acquired by Input/Output in 2002. In the period 2000 to 2001 he ran his own consulting business out of Houston. In 1996, he joined Bell Geospace, a venture funded start-up that used military technology to collect gravity gradient data for natural resource exploration, as VP of Sales and Marketing. He was appointed President and CEO in 1999. He worked for Landmark Graphics from 1989 to 1996 holding several positions, lastly as Vice President and General Manager of the Asia Pacific region, based in Singapore. Before this he has also held numerous positions with Terra-Mar, DPC&A and Exxon Company USA. |
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