Stig (B. 1959) is the major shareholder and working board chairman of Olympic Subsea ASA. He is a master mariner, graduated from Kristiansand Maritime College and has 15 years of experience as master on fishing and offshore vessels. Stig has also held board positions with a regional bank and other regional and national enterprises, and has been vice president of the Norwegian Shipowners Association. Ernst and Young named him National Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002.
Anders (B. 1961) is an engineer with an MBA from the University of Hull in England. He is managing partner in his own consultancy company, Octavius AS. Octavius delivers executive strategic advise to the marine offshore industry. Anders is on the executive board of numerous companies, mostly related to the marine offshore industry. Before founding Octavius, Anders had more than 30 years of international working experience, mostly within the Ulstein Group and Rolls-Royce.
Ingvild (B. 1968) has a law degree and long experiences as a corporate lawyer. She is now partner in the law firm ADVISO Advokatfirma AS. She specializes in corporate and international tax and has extensive experience from these areas in industries like shipping, fishing and finance. Vartdal is currently, and has been, a board member in several private and public limited liability companies, including companies listed at Oslo Børs
Marianne (B. 1970) has a Ph.D. in cancer research, and further education in research management, health management, international organisation and management, basic finance, and board competence. Former Vice-rector at NTNU, rector and Chairman of the board at Aalesund University College. Several years of experience from medical and marine research, and from executive boards like The Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (Chair), The Norwegian Research Council, Møreforsking Aalesund AS (Deputy Chair), Aalesund Innovation Centre, GCE Blue Maritime, Maritime Forum NW. Presently member of parliament, the standing committee on education and research, and member of the Nordic Council.
Kjell-Erik (B. 1964) has 27 years of experience from the oil and gas industry. He has spent 21 years in Schlumberger China, Norway, UK, France and US - joined the company in 1990 as a field engineer then various senior positions in operations, business development, marketing and executive management. He served as executive vice president operations and of shared services, infrastructure and distribution from 2010 to 2013 reporting to the CEO. He was chief procurement officer in Statoil from 2006 to 2007. He was senior partner in HitecVision from 2014 to 2015. Østdahl is presently a professional investor in technology start-ups and real estate. He is a senior advisor to Blackstone. He serves as chairman on the boards of Sekal AS and Nordic Unmanned AS. He holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Stig is the major shareholder and working board chairman of Olympic Subsea ASA. He is a master mariner, graduated from Kristiansand Maritime College and has 15 years of experience as master on fishing and offshore vessels. Stig has also held board positions with a regional bank and other regional and national enterprises, and has been vice president of the Norwegian Shipowners Association. Ernst and Young named him National Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002.
Bjørn is master mariner with an additional degree in business and administration from the University of Agder in Kristiansand. He is also educated engineer from Gothenburg Technical Institute. Together with Stig Remøy he established Olympic Shipping in 1996, and is shareholder in Olympic Subsea ASA.
John Arne holds an MBA (Diplom-Kaufmann) from the University of Mannheim and is also educated in electronics engineering from the Norwegian Army. He has held positions as CEO of SpareBank 1 Søre Sunnmøre, financial manager in Aker Yards ASA, ABB Financial Services and GE Capital, working within structured finance.
Runar is educated engineer and chief engineer, and has been head of the technical department at Olympic for more than 20 years. Prior to joining Olympic, he sailed as chief engineer for 5 years and worked at Voldnes Shipyard for 3 years.