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Rune Haddeland - Chief Executive Officer (CEO), WellConnection

Rune has gained broad experience from various management roles within the oil and gas industry. He joined Roxar in 1997 where he held numerous positions within sales and business development, before he began his management career in 2000. He joined TDW Offshore Services AS in 2008 as their General Manager and was the CEO of Quickflange AS between 2011 and 2015.

Rune holds a Master’s degree in Information Technology from the University of Stavanger.

He is Chief Executive Officer of WellConnection, responsible for all the Group’s operations across Norway and the UK.

Tormod Østhus – Chief Financial Officer (CFO), WellConnection

Tormod joined WellConnection in March 2019 as Chief Financial Officer . Prior to this he served as the CFO of Scan Tech AS from 2015. During his 10 years in the industry, he has held various financial leadership roles with the offshore drilling contractor Seadrill Ltd, including Finance Director for the subsidiary North Atlantic Drilling from 2012-2015 and has also gained broad experience within M&A, stock exchange listings, other capital market transactions as well as financial reporting and controlling.

Tormod holds an MSc in Accounting and Auditing from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH). He is a State Authorised Public Accountant and started his career as an auditor for PwC.

Bjørn Angeltveit – CCO, WellConnection

Bjørn, who has gathered more than 25 years’ experience in drilling within the oil and gas sector, joined WellConnection in May 2019. Throughout his career he has held numerous positions in management, sales and business development working in Asia as well as Aberdeen and Stavanger, latterly as VP Business Development at COSL Drilling Europe AS. He is a former CEO of the IOT Group and held various management positions in Odfjell Drilling.

Bjørn holds a Master’s degree in Materials Technology for the University of Stavanger.

As Commercial Director of WellConnection he focusses on sales and business development and improving growth across the group in Europe and beyond.

Arild Myrland – COO and Managing Director, WellConnection Norway

Arild has more than 20 years’ experience within high pressure cleaning and began managing Chemtech AS in 1998 until it was acquired by WellConnection in 2016, when he was appointed as Managing Director. Arild is responsible for WellConnection’s Norm/Hydroclean operations in three locations – Stavanger, Mongstad and Hammerfest – and has been instrumental in developing the company into the leading hydrocleaning provider in Norway.

Arild was also one of the founders of the company Norm Management AS, a consultancy company within NORM/LSA.

Glynn Geddie – Chief Executive Officer, WellConnection IOS

Glynn established IOS in 2014 and was Managing Director until February 2019 when the company was acquired by WellConnection. He began his career in inspection where he gained nine years’ experience working in inspection of Oil Country Tubular Goods before moving into sales for Apex Tubulars.

Glynn is responsible for all WellConnection’s TTS, Norm/Hydroclean and Projects/Subsea operations in Peterhead, Scotland, in the UK.

Lauritz Haringstad Løvø – Managing Director (MD), WellConnection Wepco AS

Lauritz has gained broad experience from various management roles within the oil and gas industry. He has held numerous positions within logistics, production & procurement, before he began his top management career in Øglænd System AS in 2008. Lauritz was the CEO of Malm Orstad AS between 2015 and 2020.

Lauritz holds Bachelor degree in Managment with specialization in Technology Management from the Western University of Applied Sciences.

He is Managing Director of WellConnection Wepco AS, responsible for the company’s operations.