TRACK RECORD
Twenty-five years across data, AI, and regulated operations
From applied physics and ontology-based interoperability to the enterprise data mandate and agentic AI in safety-critical operations — a path built in regulated industries where the cost of getting governance wrong is measured in more than money.
Foundation
PhD Applied Physics, TU Delft · MSc Mining Engineering, KU Leuven
A scientist's grounding: measurement, models, and the discipline of reasoning from evidence.
The Path · 2000 to now
Business Developer
ISAPP — Integrated Systems Approach to Petroleum Production
Business developer and member of the management team, 2000–2006 — through the launch of ISAPP (2004), the smart-fields, closed-loop reservoir-management programme. Its Brugge benchmark — set at an SPE workshop in 2008 — put a number on the prize from closed-loop reservoir management: a roughly 10% NPV uplift.
VP, Real-time Decision Support
Epsis — the NCS value case and hybrid AI
VP, Real-time Decision Support at Epsis, 2006–2009. Contributed, with the Epsis team, to the OLF Integrated Operations value assessment of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (commissioned to ABB and Epsis, 2006, updated 2007 by Epsis): NOK 300 billion in potential value, 78% new value creation and 22% cost reduction. Led ERA Decide, a BDI multi-agent platform of symbolic agents grounded in a formal ISO 15926 ontology, hybrid AI before the field had the name. Chaired the Reservoir and Production Special Interest Group at POSC Caesar, custodian body for ISO 15926, governing the standard other operators built on. Presented at the W3C Workshop on Semantic Web in Oil & Gas (Chevron, Houston, December 2008). Wrote the use case and business case for Optique, the EU project on ontology-based data access, with Equinor and Siemens as the industrial big data cases (2012).
Programme Manager
IOHN — Integrated Operations in the High North
Programme manager, 2009–2012, as VP R&D at Epsis, for ontology-based interoperability across 22 organisations, including ABB, Siemens, Cisco, Equinor and ENI, with early groundwork for agentic automation.
Deputy Board Member
Bergen University College — a ministry-appointed board seat
Deputy board member, 2011–2015, appointed by the Norwegian Ministry of Education as personal deputy to the Statoil (now Equinor) representative. An institution of 9,000 students, 830 employees and a EUR 121 million annual budget. Board oversight through the Kronstad campus relocation and through the merger process that formed Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Co-authored the 2011 evaluation of its ICT Engineering PhD programme, accredited by NOKUT in 2016.
External Executive Advisor → Digitalisation Advisor
Tyra Redevelopment — Final Investment Decision and execution (2016-2020)
Wrote the digital strategy and value case for this USD 3.35 billion project, the largest single capital investment on the Danish Continental Shelf. Joined Mærsk Oil as Digitalisation Advisor in September 2017 and presented the case at the Final Investment Decision that December, to the partners Shell, Chevron and Nordsøfonden. Stayed with the project through the Mærsk to TotalEnergies transition in 2018 and into execution. Operated by the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC), then led by Mærsk Oil, today by TotalEnergies; reported to the VP Tyra Redevelopment.
Head of Data Office
TotalEnergies EP Danmark (2020-2025)
Owned the enterprise data mandate across the Danish Underground Consortium, an operation with USD 2–3 billion in operated turnover: the accountable seat for how its data was governed and used. Digital twin adoption second only to ERP across the affiliate, with 1,000 monthly active users.
Part-time CEO
Knowledge Graph Alliance
Part-time CEO, September 2024 to February 2025 (seconded by TotalEnergies), of the non-profit alliance advancing semantic knowledge graphs — bridging industry, universities, research institutes, and standards bodies, with working groups on knowledge graphs for machine learning, LLMs, and explainable AI.
Product Owner
Agentic AI for safety-critical operations (2025-2026)
Product ownership on a safety-critical service platform. Briefed the business owners on agentic AI for operations where an unreviewed action carries real-world consequence, the crucible for this work.
Principal, Energy and Infrastructure
Graphwise
From August 2026. Knowledge graph and semantic AI for energy and infrastructure.
● Now
Board advisory · NED
Advising boards on agentic AI liability and insurability, and partnering with C-suites on the CDO mandate. Available for non-executive director and board-advisory appointments.