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Dr Helmut Sohmen
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Helmut Sohmen, Chairman, born 1939, has served as Chairman of the Board since 2005. He has been an executive and board member of companies within the family-owned former World-Wide Shipping group since 1970, and chairman since 1986. He was previously a president of the Baltic and International Maritime Council, Chairman of the International Maritime Industries Forum, Chairman of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association, Chairman of The Internatioanl Tanker Owners Pollution Federation, and served as a committee member of several P+I Clubs. He holds three law degrees from Austrian and American universities and two honorary doctorates.
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Christophe Pettenati-Auzière
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Christophe Pettenati-Auzière, Vice Chairman, born 1952, is President of Geophysical Services with Compagnie Générale de Géophysique (CGG) in Paris. He has served with CGG since 1996, holding several senior management positions in the group. Before joining CGG, Mr. Pettenati-Auzière has worked with Coflexip for 14 years, where his latest position was as Corporate Vice President, International and Industrial Operations. Before Coflexip, Mr. Pettenati-Auzière has also worked for Exxon and Schlumberger. Mr. Pettenati-Auzière holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France. He also holds an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. Mr. Pettenati-Auzière lives in Paris. Mr Pettenati-Auzière is independent from the Company’s management, major shareholders and principal business associates. |
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Andreas Sohmen-Pao
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Andreas Sohmen-Pao, Director, born 1971, is Chief Executive Officer of BW Maritime and BW Gas. He is also a non-executive director of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd and sits on the boards of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore and The Esplanade Co. Ltd. Mr. Sohmen-Pao holds a double first class honours degree (B.A Hons) from Oxford University and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. Mr. Sohmen-Pao is the son of Dr. Helmut Sohmen (Chairman) and lives in Singapore.
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David Gairns
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David Gairns, Member, born 1936, is a UK Chartered Accountant who spent his entire professional life with KPMG, retiring in 1991 as the senior partner of the Hong Kong firm. He is a past president of the Hong Kong Society of Accountants. He spent 40 years of his working life in Hong Kong and from 1991 to 2002 he acted as non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee of a number of public companies in Hong Kong including The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited and the Mass Transit Railway Corporation. He is currently an independent non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee of Edinburgh Dragon trust Limited, an investment company listed on the London stock exchange. He is married with three children. Mr. Gairns is independent from the Company’s management, major shareholders and principal business associates. |
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René Huck
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René Huck, Member, born 1947, is a member of the Board of Directors of PetroAlliance, a Russian Oil & Gas Services company partly owned by Schlumberger. Mr. Huck is recently retired from Schlumberger where he has held a variety of senior positions over the last 15 years, most recently as Vice-President QHSE and Industry Affairs. Before joining Schlumberger, Mr. Huck was CEO of the drilling contractor Techfor – Cosifor. Prior to that, he worked 16 years as an engineer and operations manager at TOTAL. Mr. Huck is a Mechanical Engineer from Ecole Centrale in Nantes, France and a Petroleum Enginner from the French Petroleum Institute in Paris, France. Mr. Huck lives in London, UK. Mr. Huck is independent from the Company’s management, major shareholders and principal business associates. |
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Kathie Child-Villiers
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Kathie Child-Villiers, Member, born 1965, is Managing Director of The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation’s (HSBC) Resources & Energy Group. Prior to joining HSBC she was a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch in the Energy & Power Group. Ms. Child-Villiers has also worked with Bear, Stearns & Co and Drexel Burnham Lambert. Ms. Child-Villiers has during her 16-year career advised on a number of significant mergers, acquisitions, privatisations and related financing transactions in the European Utilities landscape. Ms. Child-Villiers holds an International M.B.A. from the Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University) and holds a B.S. in Economics from Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA. Ms. Child-Villiers lives in London. Ms. Child-Villiers is independent from the Company's management, major shareholders and principal business associates. |
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Maarten R. Scholten
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Maarten R. Scholten, Member, born 1954, is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LSP Advisory BV, a privately held biotech investment company, and Member of the Danish investment company NordEnergie Renewables AS. Mr Scholten has almost 30 years of extensive legal and financial experience from the oil service industry, including two decades in senior and executive positions at Schlumberger. During his career at Schlumberger, Scholten was Director of Legal Service, Head of Finance, President Schlumberger Oilfield Services ECA (Europe, Africa and CIS), and Director Mergers & Acquisitions/Business Development. From 2006 – 2009 he was Co-founder and Co-executive Director of Delta Hydrocarbons SA (Luxemburg and Amsterdam). Mr Scholten holds a Master of Science in politics from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) and a JD Commercial Law from the University of Amsterdam. He is a Dutch citizen. Mr Scholten is independent from the Company’s management, major shareholders and principal business associates. |