Board of Directors

Riulf Rustad is a Norwegian businessman with a long track record from investments in sectors such as oil & gas, oil services and offshore. Mr. Rustad operates through his platform... Ousdal AS and holds/has held various board positions, both in listed and unlisted companies. Mr. Rustad was elected as chair of the board in 2016.

Purlund is a Danish citizen residing in Denmark. He has extensive experience with corporate restructurings and leveraged finance and nearly 30 years of investment and portfolio... management experience across Northern Europe, Asia and the US. Mr. Purlund was elected to the board by the shareholders after the restructuring.

Lie is a consultant at Fajoma Consulting AS. She holds various board positions including Arendal Fossekompani ASA, and Wilh. Wilhemsen ASA. She has previously held various board... posisitons including DNB ASA, R.S. Platou, Rainpower ASA, Fortum Corporation, and Telenor ASA.

Omsted holds a BA Hons. in Finance from University of Strathclyde. She has broad experience from corporate finance and capital markets and currently serves as head of investor... relations at Entra ASA. Previous experience includes 14 years as an investment banking executive at SEB Enskilda. She has also served on the board of directors of Panoro Energy ASA.

Cohen is a chemistry graduate from Queens University Belfast and also holds a masters degree in Project Management and Economics. Her career began with BP in 1991 and she has worked... for companies including ConocoPhillips and Britannia in the North Sea, Norway, the US & Kazakhstan.  Colette was SVP for Centrica Energy’s E&P UK/NL and in... August 2016 became the CEO of The Oil & Gas Technology Centre.

Darricarrère is graduate of Ecole des Mines de Paris, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and holds a master degree in Economics. After two years in lecturing and research, he joined... in 1978 Elf Aquitaine (later merged with Total) holding various leading positions. In July 2012, he became President of Total Upstream, which brought together... Exploration & Production and Gas & Power; he filled the position until he retired in August 2015. Mr. Darricarrère is currently a Senior Advisor with Lazard, a multinational financial advisory and asset management firm, as well as a Senior Lecturer in energy geopolitics at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris,  a board member of ORTEC and CIS and chair of the board of NHV.

Bruijnzeels holds a master in Mining Engineering from the University of Delft. He is currently Chairman of ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. and has various other board positions. Chris has... since 1985 worked with International Petroleum Corp, Lundin Petroleum, PGS Reservoir Consultants, Shell and NAM in various leading positions.

McGuire is a senior professional at MAEVA Group, LLC., a turnaround and restructuring firm. He has a 25 year global track record as an advisor, investor and business leader, has served... on numerous boards and has extensive experience in the energy sector, having led the European energy businesses at both Goldman Sachs and J.P.Morgan. He has a BA... from Boston College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.