Board of directors

VERDANDE technology AS

Bill McCall - Chairman

Principal of McCall & Partners, a strategic corporate finance advisory business. Bill was elected an Individual Member of the London Stock Exchange in 1990, is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland, a Chartered Banker, a Fellow of the Securities Institute, and is a regulated person by the UK FSA.

Mike Hill

Investor Representative Energy Capital Management. Mike has been a private equity investor in oil & gas companies for 14 years and has sat on the Board's of numerous oil service and E&P companies. He is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director of Rotech Holdings Limited.

Thor Egil Five

Investor representative Proventure Seed. Partner ProVenture Management. Formerly Administrative Director Statoil Innovation AS, Emgs, Voxelvision, Marine Cybernetics, Resman, Gasoptics, ProAnalysis, NumericalRocks, Statoil R&D, Plan and Economy NPC, KME.

Arne Kristoffer Norborg

External representative. Geologist. Broad oil and gas industry experience. Currently working as a consultant in oil and gas Geo projects. Part of Technoguide AS that developed Petrel, which was successfully acquired by Schlumberger and currently acts as the standard geo-software tool in the market.

Asle Jostein Hovda

Asle Jostein Hovda (Investment Director at Investinor AS) holds an MSc in Mechanical engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Asle is currently board member in Investinor´s portfolio companies Innotech Solar AS and Ziebel AS.


Terje Eidesmo

Terje Eidesmo is presently holding the title Founder and Executive vice president in EMGS. Before that he served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of EMGS from January 2002 to June 2009. He cofounded the company in 2002. From 1991 to 2002 Mr. Eidesmo worked at Statoil as a petro physicist, as a senior petro physicist from 1994 to 1995 and a project manager from 1995 to 1999 where his main area was nuclear magnetic resonance logging.

VERDANDE energy AS

Bill McCall - Chairman

Principal of McCall & Partners, a strategic corporate finance advisory business. Bill was elected an Individual Member of the London Stock Exchange in 1990, is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland, a Chartered Banker, a Fellow of the Securities Institute, and is a regulated person by the UK FSA.

Arne Kristoffer Norborg

External representative. Geologist. Broad oil and gas industry experience. Currently working as a consultant in oil and gas Geo projects. Part of Technoguide AS that developed Petrel, which was successfully acquired by Schlumberger and currently acts as the standard geo-software tool in the market.

Terje Eidesmo

Terje Eidesmo is presently holding the title Founder and Executive vice president in EMGS. Before that he served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of EMGS from January 2002 to June 2009. He cofounded the company in 2002. From 1991 to 2002 Mr. Eidesmo worked at Statoil as a petro physicist, as a senior petro physicist from 1994 to 1995 and a project manager from 1995 to 1999 where his main area was nuclear magnetic resonance logging.

Mathias Schlecht

Dr. Mathias Schlecht

Dr. Schlecht is the Vice President for Drilling Services at Baker Hughes. He holds an engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg in Germany, where he also gained a doctorate in engineering. Dr. Schlecht joined Baker Hughes in 1997 and has worked in a variety of positions within technical support, operations and marketing.

David Emerson

David Emerson

Mr. Emerson is the Vice President, Corporate Development at Baker Hughes. Previously, he served as Director of Business Development for Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations. Prior to his work with Baker, he held various positions with Western Atlas, Inc. and Halliburton Company. Mr. Emerson received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Mexico and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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Lars Elias Olrik - CEO

Formerly management consultant with Cap Gemini, then Head of European Operations with Covisinit and CEO of Keronite Ltd.

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Tom Mundheim - CFO

Previous experience includes 10 years in the Oil and Gas Industry as CFO for Altinex ASA as well as for AGR Petroleum Services and AGR Drilling Services, divisions within the AGR Group ASA. BBA from University of Hawaii – College of Business Administration.