Annual Report 2011 - PGS

Executive
Management
Jon Erik Reinhardsen
President and CEO
(Born 1956)
Jon Erik Reinhardsen joined PGS in April 2008 as President and Chief Executive Officer.
Prior to PGS, he was President, Global Primary Products Growth in Alcoa. In this position he
was responsible for developing and implementing major primary metal and refining growth
opportunities for the company worldwide. Mr. Reinhardsen joined Alcoa from Norway-based Aker
Solutions ASA, an international contractor in the oil, gas, chemicals and polymers industry. In Aker
Solutions he was group executive vice president of Aker Solutions ASA based in Houston, Texas,
where he was responsible for all contracting operations outside of Europe and product businesses
worldwide.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Reinhardsen led the Aker Maritime ASA product business in Norway,
where he was involved in merger and acquisition activities, new business development, marketing
and sales and investor relations. He also led Aker’s seismic venture Aker Geo that was later sold
to CGG. In June 2009 Mr. Reinhardsen was elected to the board of directors of Cameron and
he has been a member of the board of directors of Hoegh Autoliners Holdings AS and Hoegh
LNG Holdings Ltd since 2005. He is also a member of the board of directors of Awilhelmsen
Management AS. Mr. Reinhardsen obtained a master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and
Geophysics from the University of Bergen, Norway. He completed the International Executive
Program in 1991 from the Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Gottfred Langseth
Senior Vice President and
CFO (Elected 2006)
(Born 1966)
Gottfred Langseth joined PGS in November 2003 and was appointed Senior Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer as of January 1, 2004. He was Chief Financial Officer of the information
technology company Ementor ASA from 2000 to 2003. Mr. Langseth was Senior Vice President
of Finance and Control at the offshore engineering and construction company Aker Maritime
ASA from 1997 to 2000. Langseth worked at Arthur Andersen Norway from 1991 to 1997; he was
certified as a Norwegian state-authorized public accountant (CPA) in 1993. Mr. Langseth received
his Master of Business Administration degree from the Norwegian School of Economics and
Business Administration.
Sverre Strandenes was appointed Executive Vice President MultiClient on May 1, 2010.
Previous to that he held the position of Group President, Data Processing & Technology from
November 2006. Sverre Strandenes has held several senior PGS management positions; before
taking charge of Data Processing & Technology operations in 2006, he was President, Marine
Geophysical EAME Region (Europe, Africa, and Middle East). Prior to joining PGS in 1995, Mr.
Strandenes was the Geoscience department manager at Norsk Hydro Research Centre. Sverre
Strandenes received his M.S. in Geophysics from the University of Bergen in 1981.
Sverre Strandenes
Executive Vice President,
MultiClient
(Born 1956)
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