SOURCE ENERGY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Arve Johan Andresen, M.Sc./MBA, has more than 30 years of international business experience from management consulting, as corporate CEO and as venture capitalist and private investor.
He is a shareholder in Source Energy, with strong focus on value creation rooted in his broad investor experience, and earlier exposure to the exploration industry as management consultant.
In addition to Source Energy, Arve is active as investor and Board member, or serves as independent Director, in several other companies.
Bjørn has held the position as an Exploration Director in several other oil companies on the NCS (Hess, Det norske , Ithaca and MOL), with responsibilities included the management of all exploration activities.
He has been involved in the discovery of Johan Sverdrup and other fields resulting in the generation of net recourses to current owners of >400 Mboe. He has extensive experience on the NCS through a number of exploration projects in several technical positions from 1985 and has International G&G experience.
With more than twenty years of international experience in senior E&P/managerial positions on the NCS, Bjørn Olav has well documented results from controlling, accounting, E&P corporate analysis, planning and financing.
He has strong competence within E&P Operations and procurement and is fully updated on regulatory compliance and government reporting.
Previously he was the Finance Manager in RN (Rosneft) Nordic Oil and has worked with Project Controlling for Head Energy. For a major part of his career, he has held various positions within DEA Norge AS, including 2,5 years at the Head Office in Hamburg.
Lars Thorrud - Chief Commercial Officer
Lars has more than 30 years of experience from the Norwegian E&P industry with positions in oil and gas industry management covering commercial, strategic, economics and business development. Educational background from geology, geophysics and business administration.
In 2002, he was part of forming Aker Energy and again in 2006, the foundation of Aker Exploration. The latter company acquired the Det norske oljeselskap ASA in 2009. Lars assumed the position as Senior Vice President Business Development and the Managing Director for the subsidiary company, Det norske oljeselskap AS.
Lars was the General Manager of Ithaca Petroleum Norge AS from 2013 and the MD for MOL Norge from 2015. Both companies represented turn-around challenges and new-entrant build-ups to the NCS.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Ms. Kirkhusmo is a lawyer, partner and board member at SANDS Advokatfirma DA. She has more than twenty years of experience from major law firms in Oslo and London, in addition to management positions in the international shipping industry.
Ms. Kirkhusmo also has extensive board experience from private and public companies, hereunder from the Board of Directors of GIEK - the Norwegian Export Credit Agency.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board of Directors
- Senior Executive
Nina Udnes Tronstad is a Senior executive with over thirty years of experience from both operational and strategic positions within the Oil and Gas sectors. She has held positions in Kværner, Aker Solutions and Statoil (Equinor).
Nina has executive management experience, both from oil company and contractors. This includes capital projects, reservoir and HPHT drilling, BD, oil trading and supply, refining, HSSE including sustainability, and IT.
She has international experience from working in four countries as well as various Board assignments in listed companies, foundations and public enterprises over the past fifteen years.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Member of the Board of Directors
Roar Tessem has more than forty years of experience within the E&P industry, having held positions with Elf, Shell, DNO, Deminex, PGS and Det norske oljeselskap.
In 2008, he founded Spring Energy, backed by the private equity firm HitecVision. The Company took part in several major discoveries on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and was subsequently acquired by Tullow in 2012. He was the CEO of Tullow Norway until the end of 2014.
In 2015 he founded Pure E&P and was the CEO of both Pure E&P and Point Resources that later became Vår Energi.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Investment Director at Kistefos AS
Tom Olav Holberg is an Investment Director at Kistefos AS, the private investment company of Mr. Christen Sveaas. Kistefos manages a diversified portfolio of companies within a variety of industries including offshore, shipping, financial services, technology and real estate. Mr. Holberg has been employed at Kistefos since 2010 and worked within a number of different industries, such as shipping & offshore and technology & telecom and served as Board member in several of Kistefos' Portfolio companies.