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Minibio Teodor Sveen-Nilsen
• Equity analyst covering E&P and oil market
• Top ranked E&P analyst in Norway
• Master in economics from Norwegian School of Management (BI)
• Chartered European Financial analyst, AFA, (NHH)
• MBA in Corporate Finance, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

Deputy Director General at Minstry of Petroleum and Energy since August 2018.
Head of Section for Development and Production in the Oil and Gas Department. Working on development, production and decommissioning of oil and gasfields on the NCS. Preparedness related to secure supply of oil. Department responsibility for the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD).

Mission of Norway to the European Union
Energy Counsellor
August 2014 - August 2018
Brussels Area, Belgium

Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
Deputy Director General
March 2009 - August 2014 (5 years 6 months)
Oslo Area, Norway

Mission of Norway to the OECD
Energy Attaché
August 2006 - March 2009
Paris, France

Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
Assistant Director General
January 2001 - August 2006

University of Oslo
Research Assistant and Teaching
1999 - 2001

Education
University of Oslo (UiO)
cand.polit, Economics, Maths, Statistics · (1996 - 2001)

University of Cape Town
Master of Economics, Economics · (1999 - 2000)

Universitetet i Agder (UiA)
Bachelor of science, Development studies, History · (1993 - 1996)

KG
High School · (1987 - 1993)

Torbjørn Kjus has 20 years of experience in analysing the global crude and refined products markets. He worked 6 years as an oil analyst and trader in Norsk Hydro in Oslo and BP trading in London before he took up his role as Chief Oil Analyst in DNB Markets in Oslo in 2007. He held this position for 11 years but currently works as Chief Economist in Aker ASA, the Industrial Investment company. Torbjørn was by Norwegian institutional investors ranked as the number one financial analyst independent of sector when he resigned from DNB in 2018. For the Oil & Gas sector Torbjørn was ranked as the number one financial analyst during his last four years in DNB. Torbjørn annually executed 250 presentations on the global oil & gas markets to investors and oil industry worldwide and was frequently quoted in media such as Bloomberg, Reuters, Platts, Wall Street Journal, Houston Chronicle, etc. He regularly briefed the US Treasury in Washington D.C. on the global oil market and provided consultations about the market to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum, to the Norwegian Pension Fund (NBIM) and to the Norwegian Central Bank. Oil “legends” like Ray Hunt, Olav Refvik and numerous hedge funds in London and New York have leaned on Torbjorn to interpret the global energy space, in addition to oil producers and oil consumers worldwide. Torbjørn is particularly known for having predicted the 2014-2016 oil price crash as a consequanse of the US shale oil revolution.

Paul is Head of International Energy at Jefferies, responsible for M&A and capital raising outside of North America. Paul joined from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was Co-Head of EMEA Energy Investment Banking.

Paul is an exploration geologist by background and for over 20 years has worked exclusively on international oil and gas M&A and capital raising, covering Europe, Africa, SE Asia and South America, having traded over 400 oil and gas fields in these regions. He has a PhD in Petroleum Geology from Cambridge University and a MSc in Rock Mechanics and a BSc in Geology both from Imperial College, London.

Christopher is SVP of Energy Investment Banking at Jefferies where he advises international energy companies on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures as well as capital market activities outside of North America. Recent clients include ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, TOTAL, Chevron and Harbour Energy.

Christopher has been at Jefferies since 2009 and has a first class degree in economics from Strathclyde University.

Philip Lambert is CEO of Lambert Energy Advisory Ltd (LEA), which is one of London’s leading M&A and Strategic Advisory firms, having been advisors on over $110 billion of Energy M&A transactions in the last few years.

LEA was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Mayfair, London. LEA also has senior representation in Oslo, Kuala Lumpur, Moscow and Tokyo. LEA gives strategic and M&A advice to a select group of the world’s leading NOC’s, IOC’s, Independents and Renewable Companies.

LEA has built up a very significant Norwegian business since 1999 when LEA was selected as the core advisor to the Norwegian Government on the privatisation of Statoil. LEA is also deeply involved in Energy Transition advisory work, globally.

Prior to 1999, Philip was head of Dresdner Kleinwort’s Global Energy Investment Banking team.

Espen Kvilekval has been Global Head of Oil & Gas in DNB since 2010 and responsible for the banks bank’s clients within upstream, midstream and downstream oil & gas. Mr. Kvilekval has more than 20 years of international energy banking experience from DNB, both in New York, Houston and London. He is currently heading up DNB’s global oil & gas team from Oslo. Before joining DNB, Mr. Kvilekval worked at the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. He is Cand.polit. with major in Economics from the University of Bergen.

13 years working in Finance within Equity Sales and Corporate Finance, ECM
CEFA holder

Assistant Director, Rothschild & Co
Sep. 2015- present

Associate, Royal Bank of Scotland
Sep 2012- Sep 2015

Education:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Government & Economics
2009-2012

Independent oil & gas management consultant/advisor with Petroleum Engineering background and MBA

Anders Wittemann is an independent E&P strategy and business development consultant with Wittemann E&P Consulting (WEPC) since 2011. Before this Anders was manager of consulting services with Rystad Energy AS, a management consultant with McKinsey and a Petroleum Engineer with Shell International E&P. Anders has an MBA from INSEAD and an M.Eng in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College and NTNU. Anders is an associated oil & gas industry expert with the M&A advisor INFIMA AS and since 2020 a board member of Resoptima AS, the provider of reservoir modeling software.

WEPC works with E&P clients in the North Sea region on an independent basis or in partnership with other consultants. WEPC also publishes its proprietary Norway BD Book to oil companies in Norway.

CFO, Sval Energi – Oct 2019 – Present
CFO, Vår Energi – Dec 2018 – Apr 2019
CFO, Point Resources May 2016 – Dec 2018
CEO, Core Energy – Oct 2015 – May 2016
CFO, Core Energy – Dec 2010 – Oct 2015
Director, RS Platou Markets – Jul 2007 – Oct 2010
Partner, SB Finans – Oct 2003 – Jul 2007
Manager, E&Y Corporate Finance – Jul 2000 – Sep 2003

Siviløkonom - Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

Helge has 22 years of experience with the E&P industry. First as an officer at the Ministry of Petroleum for two years followed by 14 years as management consultant and investment banker, working for both Norwegian and international oil and gas companies. Helge moved on to the industry side in 2015 as Head of BD & Commercial at Tullow Oil Norge AS. In 2016 he co-founded Pandion Energy AS through a management buyout of Tullow Oil’s Norwegian operations, incl. the Duva oil and gas discovery. At Pandion Energy AS he is Deputy CEO & VP BD and manages its M&A activities with the acquisition of Valhall & Hod in 2017 and sale of Duva in 2019 being the largest transactions to date.

Chris was educated as a geologist and holds a BSc Hons. degree from the University of Manchester and a PhD from the University of Birmingham. Chris entered the industry in 1998, initially as a geological consultant for Ichron Limited before joining Shell, where he worked on E&P projects in The Netherlands and Italy. Chris joined Revus Energy in early 2006, becoming Deputy Exploration Manager at the time of the Company's acquisition by Wintershall in 2008. Later that year, Chris developed the business concept for Agora Oil & Gas, subsequently co-founding the company and acting as Exploration Manager until and beyond the acquisition of Agora by Cairn Energy PLC in 2012. Chris joined Wellesley in June 2015.

Sigbjørn Aanes has for many years served as head of communications for the Conservative party, state secretary and was one of Erna Solberg's closest advisers. His responsibilities included positioning and managing Solberg's reputation in the press and he was central to the development of the Conservatives strategies for the 2011-2017 elections. Previously, Sigbjørn worked as information manager in Norwegian Oil and Gas. He has broad experience from political communication, message development, change management, strategy work and crisis management.