With a presence in Oslo, Houston, Singapore and London, Energy Growth Partners provide a truly international strategy consulting service that is dedicated to the oil, gas and oilfield services sector. We also seek to take equity stakes in rapidly growing privately held companies and work closely with management to create value.

Roger has recently retired following a long career in executive positions in IT and Telecoms companies in the UK and internationally. Most recently he was with Hewlett Packard where he was Director of Business Development of the Communications, Media and Entertainment Business Unit in Europe, Middle East and Africa. In this role he led the business unit which is the route to market into the fixed and mobile telco’s and the network equipment providers for all HP’s hardware, software and services. He is currently Non-Executive Director of Object Matrix a media storage software company. He has previously held various non-executive directorships in both the private and public sectors.

Roger has lived in the UK for most of his life but in the past has lived and worked in the USA, Germany and The Netherlands.

Education:

BA Honours, University of London 1969

Post Graduate Certificate Education, University of Leeds 1970

MA, University of Birmingham 1978

Carsten is Norwegian and spent his formative years in Norway and Germany but has lived in England since he moved with his family as a teenager in 1996.

Carsten is a Partner in the London office of Dorsey & Whitney. Being headquartered in Minneapolis (Minnesota), Dorsey has very strong Nordic roots so is a natural fit for Norwegian and other Nordic clients. Dorsey has a well-established network of 20 offices across the United States, Canada, China, Hong Kong and London.

Carsten’s legal practice focuses on domestic and cross-border M&A and Private Equity work as well as being active in the Sports Media sector. Carsten also works with and manages Dorsey’s client relationship with a number of Norway’s largest listed and unlisted companies, helping them with projects all over the globe.

Rune has been with DNB since 2007. In 2020 he was appointed Head of Future & Tech Industries CEMEA.

DNB is the largest Norwegian Bank with an international scope on large corporate banking within selected industry sectors. The Future & Tech Industries  CEMEA has the responsibility for the Infrastructure & Renewables, Communication & Technology, Healthcare, Financial Institutions, Service, and Retail & Manufacturing industries within Central Europe

Prior to becoming the Head of Future & Tech Industries DNB London Branch, Rune held various senior positions within Large Corporate Banking in DNB, among others responsible for DNB’s Seafood portfolio in Americas and recently Head of Strategy and Business Support in Future & Tech Industry Division.

Rune has a Siviløkonom degree from NHH – Norwegian School of Economics  (2006).

Tim Hare is Head of Sales, Energy Systems at DNV UK. His current responsibilities are to increase revenue and transform our organisation, driving the business forward and introducing bold new concepts. He has a strong technical background, with experience in all project lifecycle phases; Tim progressed from a Craft Apprentice to Senior Management, working in Energy, Defence and the Steel Industry. He is dynamic and highly motivated, with the ability to understand and interpret complex problems, combining commercial acumen, curiosity and creativity. Tim has a proven diverse background which contributes to his strength in consultancy and informed decision-making.

Philip arrived in UK in 2001 taking the role as the first Managing Director for Sony Ericsson in UK/Ireland.

Since leaving his native Norway in 1992, the motto was to “see the world” with Ericsson Telecoms which lead to postings to Saudi Arabia ’92-’94 and Singapore ’94–’01.

Always excited by new building new products and services, Philip left big corporate in 2007 to set up his own consultancy.  By now having founded several start-ups in UK within telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence, Philip has accumulated a pretty good understanding of the Dos and Don’ts with regards to UK company establishments, funding opportunities and barriers to operational excellence.

In addition, Philip further serves on several company boards in various industry sectors covering cyber security, AI, mental wellness and stem cell treatment.

Rob has over 20 years experience within the data centre industry and has been involved at all stages of DC development from sales, consulting, design, construction and into operations.

As VP Data Centers, Rob and his team lead the Bulk Infrastructure customer engagements ensuring Bulk deliver customer focused solutions which combine our unique fiber and data center capabilities to address specific business and technology challenges.

Rob is part of the leadership team at Bulk Data Centers and during the past 20 years has worked as a Board Director and managed teams across EMEA, ranging from cloud deployments in the Middle East to today driving customer solutions across the Nordics offering highly scalable, connected and sustainable data centers for the lowest TCO in Europe.

Eystein Eikesdal is currently Senior Advisor, UK Country Office at Equinor.  Before that he was Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Innovation within Equinor’s Global Strategy Business Development, and previously Vice President for Financial Projects within Statoil’s Corporate Finance department. He has also been Head of Statoil’s Finance Group in Moscow as well as Head of Industry Analysis in the company’s International E&P Strategy department.  Prior to the merger of Statoil ASA with the oil and gas assets of Norsk Hydro ASA, he held a variety of positions in Statoil within the International E&P Business Development division, the Natural Gas division and Norwegian Continental Shelf Exploration & Production. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) degree from the University of Birmingham, UK, and is a Master of Business Administration from Bayes Business School, (City University) London.