Track Record

I've spent 25 years building and governing the infrastructure that makes data-driven decisions trustworthy at industrial scale. From autonomous agent systems on the Norwegian Continental Shelf to enterprise Digital Twins in the Danish North Sea, from coordinating 22 organisations on semantic interoperability to advancing knowledge graph standards across aerospace, manufacturing, and automotive sectors.

Selected highlights. Publications and patents on the Publications page. Full project history available on request.

Enterprise Data Governance at Scale

Head of Data Office, TotalEnergies EP Danmark (2020–2025)

World-leading Digital Twin adoption rates, second only to ERP. Enterprise architecture integrating 10+ data domains through a semantic virtualisation layer powering data-driven decision-making across the organisation. Community of 30+ Data Stewards. Deployed Microsoft Copilot to 400+ knowledge workers with enterprise governance controls. Denmark's largest gas field, approximately 90% of the country's gas export. 1,200 employees, platforms connected via redundant fibre ring 200–250 km offshore.

Major Project Digitalisation

Tyra Redevelopment Project, DKK 21 billion budget (2017–2018)

Executive Advisor through Epsis to the Mærsk Oil EVP, advising the operator on digital transformation strategy for the redevelopment of Denmark's largest gas field. Integrated Operations scope including mobility, digital twin, onshore Operations Centre, and new ways of working. Developed the IO strategy and value case supporting Final Investment Decision. Stakeholder management across base business, IS, and headquarters.

Cross-Industry Knowledge Graph Collaboration

CEO, Knowledge Graph Alliance (2024–2025)

Global collaboration across industry, academia, and standards organisations advancing interoperable, explainable, and auditable AI ecosystems. Launched four workgroups: Knowledge Graphs for Machine Learning, Explainable AI Principles, SousLeSens platform development, and Knowledge Graphs for LLMs. Founding industrial members include TotalEnergies, Airbus, Michelin, and Bosch. Championed vendor-independent, W3C standards-based approaches to semantic infrastructure.

Semantic Interoperability for Autonomous Operations

Programme Manager, Integrated Operations in the High North (2009–2012)

Semantic interoperability across 22 organisations. Coordinated ABB, Siemens, Cisco, IBM, SAP, Baker Hughes, National Oilwell Varco, FMC Technologies, and international standards bodies including the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway and Det Norske Veritas. ISO 15926-based interoperability pilots for drilling, production, and operations. Proved hybrid architectures combining symbolic reasoning with real-time data at industrial scale. Complementary to Equinor's strategic MapIT/GODI initiative, building the semantic infrastructure for what was ultimately envisioned as autonomous drilling and production operations.

Industry-Wide Value Quantification

OLF/Epsis IO Value Assessment (2006–2007)

Contributor to the value assessment conducted by Epsis on behalf of the Norwegian Oil Industry Association (OLF). Quantified NOK 300 billion value creation potential for the Norwegian Continental Shelf based on proprietary operational data from operators representing 55% of remaining reserves across 12 fields. Source of the 82/18 Rule: 82% of digital transformation value comes from new value creation, 18% from cost reduction. Total additional production of 298 million Sm3 oe, equivalent to one large new field. NOK 14 billion in lost value from delayed implementation identified.

Hybrid AI Architecture (Pioneer)

VP Real-Time Decision Support, Epsis (2006–2012)

Co-designed one of the earliest hybrid AI architectures integrating BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention) multi-agent systems with ISO 15926 semantics and real-time operational data. Co-developed ERA Decide with Jan Rogier and Jennifer Sampson (now Senior Manager Knowledge & GenAI at Equinor UK), combining automated reasoning, data assimilation, and semantic technology for real-time decision support on drilling and production operations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Presented at the 2008 W3C Workshop on Semantic Web in Oil & Gas Industry. Chaired POSC Caesar Special Interest Group for Reservoir & Production. Crafted the Equinor exploration use case for the successful EU-FP7 Optique proposal on Ontology-Based Data Access for industrial-scale datasets. Organised biannual strategic workshops with the heads of corporate digital transformation programmes at Chevron and Equinor, working on a five-to-ten year horizon.

Joint Industry Collaboration

Operations Centre JIP, Chevron-Shell-Norsk Hydro-SAIC-Epsis (2005–2008)

Participating project manager for a three-year joint industry project on Operations Centres and Collaborative Environments. Investigated collaborative decision-making in production optimisation, human factors, remote collaboration technology, and KPI frameworks for Integrated Operations. Steering Committee included senior leaders from Norsk Hydro (now part of Equinor), Chevron, and Shell.

International Major Project Support

Ichthys LNG Project, Inpex Australia (2014–2017)

Operations Collaboration Centre design for one of the world's largest offshore LNG developments. Terms of reference for operational interfaces across the Operations Division, supporting offshore facilities and an onshore processing plant 2,600 km apart. Change management and end-user engagement.

Research Commercialisation

ISAPP Programme, TNO-Shell-Delft University (2000–2006)

Member of the ISAPP Management Team alongside Shell and Delft University of Technology. Business development for a strategic knowledge centre where 40 PhD students, postdocs, and staff advanced closed-loop reservoir management, bridging measurement and control theory with data assimilation techniques. Supported Shell's Smart Fields initiative, delivering 5–10% additional oil recovery from existing reservoirs.

Technology Commercialisation and Patents

Oil-in-Water Monitor, TNO (2000–2006)

Commercialised acoustic measurement technology from laboratory to offshore pilot installations at Statoil Sleipner (Norway), ENI Cavone (Italy), and PDO Zauliyah (Oman). Nominated for the 2006 ONS Innovation Award. Two patents. Product commercially available as topside and subsea versions.

Academic Foundation

PhD Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology (cum laude)

MSc Engineering Geology, University of Leuven (magna cum laude)

Where the rigour of physics meets the fuzziness of geology. Where what counts as data for one use case is noise for the next. And where you learn to reconcile messy, uncertain reality with formal models. That turned out to be ontology engineering in different clothing.