The Board of Directors

Klaus Kjærulff was elected Chair of Skuld’s Board of Directors in 2011. He merits with 33 years with Torm AS, Copenhagen, where he has held various positions as Head of Tanker Division, EVP, etc, and served as CEO from 2000-2008. Today Klaus Kjaerulff is Chairman and Partner in Vincent Shipping A/S Oslo, Member of the Board of Nordic Tankers A/S, Copenhagen and Chairman of the Daniamant Group in Denmark and UK.

He has his AMP from INSEAD France.

Martin Larsen has been with A.P. Moller - Maersk since 2003 in various finance positions including Treasurer of the North American activities, Head of Corporate Treasury, CFO in Maersk Supply Service and Head of Group Financial Planning and Analysis. Martin joined A.P. Moller Holding in 2016 as CFO and part of the Executive board. Martin is also a board member in Maersk Tankers, A.P. Moller Capital and Navigare Partners.

He is a Finance professional and has an MSc Economics and Finance from Warwick University and Exec MBA from Columbia University and London Business School.

Terje Hj Michelsen started his career in Star Shipping in 1978 and has held various executive and board positions in Star Shipping, Grieg Star and Grieg Star Group. He retired as Group COO in 2018, after which he held an advisory role in G2 Ocean for some time.
Outside Star and Grieg Star Terje has served on boards related to the ocean industries like Squamish Terminals Ltd, Marintek and SINTEF Ocean. He has been a member of Skuld´s governing bodies since 2010.

Terje has a BA in Business Organisation from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and executive programs at IMD in Lausanne and MAREX with the Norwegian Shipowners Association/Duke University.

Bernt Bodal was CEO at American Seafoods Group from 2000 until 2017 and is now a member of the Board and a shareholder of the company. He held the position as President & CEO at American Seafoods Company since 1990 until 1998. He is a certified U.S. Coast Guard Master and has been a certified Airline Transport pilot since 1991. Bodal started his carrier as a highly-accomplished fisherman in 1978 with more than 13 years at sea.

A veteran in shipping finance, Catherine Cheung has held the position of Chief Operating Officer since 2015, preceded by her dual role as COO/CFO at Transfield Resources Limited since 2000. She was previously Consulting Director with E&Y Hong Kong, Senior Manager for Financial Services at KPMG in Los Angeles, and several SVP positions within banking in San Francisco. She has an BA in International Trade Finance from the National Taiwan University in Taipei and a MS in Finance from California State University Northridge in California.

Mr. Eidesvik is educated as a Ship Master. He has sailed on offshore, fishing and reefer vessels before continuing his career ashore within shipping. He is currently the Group CEO of Caiano AS, Managing Director of Green Shipping (Green Reefers Group), Chairman of Wilson ASA and Chairman of Euro Terminal AS.
Mr. Eidesvik is a Norwegian citizen with residence in Haugesund, Norway.

Erik Hånell is President & CEO in Stena Bulk. With a Bachelor of Nautical Science and a master degree from Chalmers University of Technology, Hånell started working for Stena Bulk in 1999. He held numerous positions in the company over 13 years including head of Stena Bulk USA and COO of Stena Bulk AB before being appointed to his current position in 2012. Stena Bulk is commercial controlling about 100-120 tankers of primarily Suezmaxes, MR, a Chemical Tanker fleet and 3 LNGC.

Gerard Patronis is the Managing Director of Alcyon Shipping – a company with long tradition and history (circa 1846) specialized in the technical and commercial management of dry-bulk capesize vessels. He actively joined the company in 1996 and has since worked through various internal departments and all aspects of the trade. He holds a BSc in Management Sciences from the London School of Economics (LSE) and an MSc in Maritime Policy and Shipping Management from Cardiff Business School.

Trygve Seglem has been with Knutsen OAS Shipping AS since 1983, and held the position as Project Director until becoming Managing Director since 1988. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Marine Engineering from Newcastle University, UK and started his career with 7 years in Statoil and a year as a Marine Engineering/Naval Architecture consultant, before joining Knutsen OAS Shipping AS. He holds multiple board memberships in the Norwegian shipping community. He has been President of The Norwegian Shipowners Association and Vice President of International Chamber of Shipping.

Uta Urbaniak-Sage joined BW Epic Kosan (formerly Epic Gas) in 2007 as Managing Director of the Singapore operation and became group CFO in 2012 where she has been closely involved in numerous debt/equity raising and M&A transactions.
Before joining BW Epic Kosan, Uta worked for HSH Nordbank in Hamburg and Hong Kong in various management positions in the bank's shipping division.

Ann-Marie Åström is the Vice-Chairman at Rederi AB Gotland, and has been a member of their Board since 1991 and is also a member of their Remuneration Committee. She is the Chairman of Gotland Tankers since 2010, member of Ex Com in INTERTANKO and a director of Consilium (a listed company in Sweden). She is also a former employee of Skuld Stockholm. She is a graduate in Law.

Daria Avdeeva is Corporate Legal Counsel and has been with Skuld since 2013. Prior to Skuld she has worked with international trade and structured finance for SEB and Cargill in Russia and Switzerland. Daria is a qualified Russian lawyer.

Morten Bjerregaard is Assistant Vice President, Claims and Technical Manager and joined Skuld in 2011. He is Master Mariner with seagoing experience from Maersk and the Danish Royal Navy. Moreover he holds a Master in Law from the University of Copenhagen.