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Ole Jacob Diesen
Chief Executive Officer
| | Ole Jacob Diesen joined DHT in 2005 as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Diesen has been an independent corporate and financial management consultant since 1997, serving a diverse group of clients primarily in the tanker industry. Mr. Diesen has advised on a broad range of shipping transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures, asset sales, equity, debt and lease financings and vessel charters, pooling and technical management agreements. Mr. Diesen’s career in shipping and shipping finance spans over 30 years. From 1991 to 1997, Mr. Diesen served as Managing Director of Skaugen PetroTrans ASA, a Norwegian public company that was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Skaugen PetroTrans is an established crude oil lightering company in the U.S. Gulf and operator of a fleet of medium sized tankers. From 1984 to 1991, Mr. Diesen headed Fearnley Group (UK) Ltd., a privately held corporate finance advisory firm specializing in the maritime and oil industries. Prior to this, Mr. Diesen served for ten years with Manufacturers Hanover Trust, a predecessor to JPMorgan Chase, in positions including Vice President and Deputy Regional Manager, where he was responsible for the bank’s portfolios of shipping and Scandinavian corporate credits after having spent two years as a tanker chartering broker. Mr. Diesen currently serves on a number of boards including PetroTrans Holdings Ltd., Bermuda, the largest independently owned U.S. Gulf lightering business; I.M. Skaugen Marine Services Pte Ltd., Singapore, an owner of LPG/ethylene carriers; Leif Höegh (UK) Ltd., a U.K. owner of car carriers and LNG vessels; Dole (UK) Ltd., a U.K. owner of reefer vessels; and FSN Capital Holding Ltd., Jersey, a private equity firm. Mr. Diesen is a citizen of Norway.
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Eirik Ubøe
Chief Financial Officer
| | Eirik Ubøe joined DHT in 2005 as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Eirik Ubøe has been involved in international accounting and finance for approximately 20 years, which includes time spent in ship finance and as the chief financial officer for companies listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. From March 2002 through December 2004, Mr. Ubøe served as the chief executive and chief financial officer of Nutri Pharma ASA, an international health care company listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. From 1997 through 2002, Mr. Ubøe worked in various positions at the Schibsted Group, the largest Norwegian media group with newspaper, television and online interests in Scandinavia, the Baltics, Switzerland, France and Spain, including as the finance director of the Schibsted Group and as chief financial officer of Schibsted's newspaper initiative in Switzerland, France and Spain. Mr. Ubøe has also served as a vice president in the corporate finance and ship finance departments of various predecessors to JPMorgan Chase both in New York and Oslo for a total of eight years. Mr. Ubøe holds an MBA from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and a Bachelor in Business Administration from the University of Oregon. Mr. Ubøe is a citizen of Norway. |
Tom R. Kjeldsberg
Senior Vice President, Business Development
| | Tom R. Kjeldsberg joined DHT in 2007 as Senior Vice President, Business Development. Mr. Tom R. Kjeldsberg has 10 years investment banking experience, mainly within the maritime/transportation industries. From 2002 through 2007, he was a Director in the Corporate Finance division of DnB NOR Markets, Oslo, one of the world's leading shipping and offshore banks. Mr. Kjeldsberg has also served as an Associate in the Corporate Finance group of Merrill Lynch in London and Analyst in the Project Finance group of Cambridge Partners in New York. He holds an MBA from the IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Mr. Kjeldsberg is a citizen of Norway. |
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