Mr. Felix H. Tschudi

The Chairman of the Board and Owner of Tschudi Shipping Company

Felix H. Tschudi is the Chairman and owner of the Tschudi Group.

Mr. Tschudi attended the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy and served as Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Norwegian Navy. He earned a Second Mate’s certificate from merchant navy colleges in the UK, a BSc (Econ) from London School of Economics and an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Before joining the family shipping company, Tschudi & Eitzen, in 1989, Felix worked for the Vienna-based trading and finance house AWT specialising in trade finance with Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Felix H. Tschudi is the Chairman of the Centre for High North Logistics and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Arctic, the Committee of the P&I Club Skuld, on the Board of the Norwegian publishing house Aschehoug & Co, former Chairman of the Board of Maritimt Forum Oslofjord and a former President of the Oslo Shipowners' Association.

Mr. Hans Ove Holmøy

Managing Director, Skipsteknisk AS

Since 1996 Hans Ove Holmøy is a Skipsteknisk's Managing Director. 

Skipsteknisk AS designs specialized vessels with emphasis on offshore research and fisheries. ST Group consists also of electrical service company Skan-El AS and branch offices in Turkey and China.

For the last 12 years Mr. Hans Ove Holmøy is directly involved in Skipsteknisk's work with the Russian fishing industry.

He speaks Norwegian, English and basic German. 

Mr. Holmøy holds a B.Sc degree from the Møre og Romsdal Technical College of Naval Architecture, Norway. 

Hans Christian Dall Nygård

CEO, Kirkenes fondsforvaltning

Hans Chr. Dall Nygård has been living in Russia since 1995, and has been responsible for several Russia-focused Private Equity investment funds within the listed investment group CapMan plc. He has raised capital from investors like EBRD, IFC, DEG, FMO, GIMV, DNB, Nordea, Ilmarinen, Varma etc. The funds have invested into more than 45 companies in various sectors in Russia. Most of the companies have been successfully exited.

In 2019, he established Kirkenes Fondsforvaltning AS, which is managing the State Investment Fund for North West Russia and Eastern Europe.

Asbjørn Solevågseide

Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing, Optimar AS

Mr. Solevågseide is one of the founders of Optimar AS and he has been the CEO of the company until last year when he became the Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing. 

Asbjørn Solevågseide has an extensive experience in co-operation with Russian fishing companies based on his engagement in delivery of fish factories to Russian customers since 1990’s. He was heavily involved in the big series of vessels, which was built in Western Europe for USSR both in Norway, Germany and Spain, where more than 60 vessels were delivered in total. After being responsible for building and installing the factories of these vessels, he became one of the top managers in Kværner Fish Process Technology. In 1996, he started a consultant company named Seatech, which later was merged into today’s Optimar AS.

Mr. Solevågseide has graduated from NTNU, Aalesund in 1983.