Leadership

Andreas Sohmen-Pao is Chairman of BW Group and listed affiliates BW Offshore, BW LPG, Hafnia, BW Energy and Cadeler. He is also Chairman of the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation, and a trustee of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation.

Mr Sohmen-Pao was previously Chairman of the Singapore Maritime Foundation and has served as a non-executive director of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd, London P&I Club, Navigator Holdings, Singapore Symphonia Company, National Parks Board Singapore, Sport Singapore and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore amongst others.

Mr Sohmen-Pao graduated from Oxford University in England with an honours degree in Oriental Studies and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Born: 1971

Andrew E. Wolff has served on the Board of Directors since May 20, 2020 as an independent director.

He was most recently Global Co-Head of the Merchant Banking Division (“MBD”), Head of MBD International and Global Co-Head of Private Equity for Goldman Sachs. He was the Co-Chief Investment Officer of the flagship Merchant Banking private equity funds. Mr. Wolff was a member of the European Management Committee, Corporate Investment Committee, Infrastructure Investment Committee, and Co-Chairman of the Growth Equity Investment Committee. Mr. Wolff joined Goldman Sachs in 1998 in the Principal Investment Area and was named Managing Director in 2005 and Partner in 2006.

He has experience investing across global markets and has served on the boards of companies in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, China, Korea, the United Kingdom, France, Norway and Denmark.

Mr. Wolff earned a BA in Philosophy from Yale University in 1991 and a JD and MBA from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, respectively, in 1998.  

Born: 1969

Anne Grethe Dalane has served on the Board of Directors since November 21, 2013 as an independent director.

Prior to this, Ms. Dalane held various senior management positions at Yara, Norsk Hydro in the areas of human resources, corporate strategy and finance. Her board experience includes Arendal Fossekompani, Hafslund, EDB Business Partners, Prosafe and Petroleum Geo Services.

Ms. Dalane is a certified financial analyst and holds an MBA from the Norwegian School of Economics

Born: 1960

Sonali Chandmal has served on the Board of Directors since May 20, 2020 as an independent director.

She is currently a partner at A Lamot Incobel & Co, an advisory firm sourcing, structuring and funding private equity opportunities and funds in Europe, India and America. Ms. Chandmal currently serves on the board of directors and renumeration committee of Ageas SA/NV, the board of directors and renumeration committee chair of Ageas Portugal Grupo and the board of directors, audit and sustainability committees of Medicover AB, and the board of directors of Ackermans & van Haaren SA/NV. She is also on the board of directors of the Harvard Club of Belgium and Chapter Zero Brussels.

From 1997 to 2017, she worked at Bain & Company, a leading global strategy and management consulting firm, at its offices in San Francisco, London and Brussels. Prior to that, Ms. Chandmal worked at Robertson Stephens & Company, an investment bank specializing in high technology IPOs and mergers & acquisitions.

Ms. Chandmal holds a BA in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Born: 1968

Luc Gillet has served on the Board of Directors since May 15, 2023 as an independent director.

Mr. Gillet started his career in 1982 with ETPM and joined Bureau Veritas in 1983 where he held various management positions. Mr. Gillet joined TotalEnergies in 2003, he was named Senior Vice President Shipping in 2008 and served until 2022. Mr. Gillet currently serves as an independent director of GTT and Orion Global Transport France (OGTF).

Mr. Gillet is a graduated engineer from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques avancées (1980) and holds an EMBA of HEC (1991).  

Born: 1958

Sanjiv Misra has served on the Board of Directors since 14 February, 2024 as an independent director.

Mr. Misra is Chairman of Clifford Capital Holdings and Bayfront Infrastructure Management Pte Ltd, and is a Non-Executive Director of Partners Capital Group and Singapore Symphonia Company Pte Ltd.  He is also Chairman of the Asia Pacific Advisory Board for Apollo Global Management and President of Phoenix Advisers Pte Ltd, a boutique consulting and principal investing firm.

Mr. Misra began his investment banking career with Goldman Sachs & Co in 1986, spanning over a decade in New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In 1997, he joined Citigroup, where he served as the Head of the Asia Pacific Corporate Bank, CEO of Global Corporate and Investment Banking Group (Singapore and Brunei), and Country Officer for Singapore. He was also the Citigroup Head of Asia Pacific Investment Banking, and Head of Equity Capital Markets for Asia-Pacific.

Mr. Misra was previously an independent director at Olam International, EDBI, OUE Hospitality REIT Management, Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd, and the National University Health System, amongst others. He was a board member and trustee of the Singapore Management University.

Mr. Misra holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Delhi University, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, and a Master of Management from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Born: 1960

Sophie Smith is Chief Human Resources Officer at BW Group. She is responsible for the people strategy and creating a workplace where our employees feel inspired, fulfilled, and valued to deliver growth for our business.

Prior to joining BW Group, she worked at Experian, where she most recently held the role of HR Director, Asia Pacific. Originally from the UK, Sophie started her career at Rolls-Royce and moved into HR leadership roles at 3i and NatWest.

Sophie graduated from Durham University with a first class honours degree in Geography. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Mr Bjarte Bøe has over thirty years of experience in the finance industry. He currently serves as a Director of Hermitage Offshore, a NYSE listed company and Agera Venture, a Norwegian venture capital company.

Mr Bøe is a member of the Nomination Committee of BW Offshore Limited and Chairman of the Investment Committee at SEB Venture Capital, a subsidiary of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ), or SEB, a Nordic financial services group, where from 1995 to June 2019, he held a range of management positions. He most recently served as Head of Shipping and Offshore Finance at SEB, and was Global Head of Investment Banking at SEB Stockholm between 2012 and 2016. Mr Bøe previously held various other bank related management positions at Christiania Bank between 1986 and 1995, a Norwegian bank that later merged with MeritaNordbanken to become Nordea, and was a shipbroker at R.S. Platou between 1983 and 1986.

Mr Bøe has an MBA from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, graduated in 1983.

Ms Elaine Yew Wen Suen is a Senior Partner in Egon Zehnder, one of the world’s largest executive search and talent strategy firm. Ms Yew’s focus is on CEO and C-suite succession planning, and board effectiveness and she also advises clients on CEO development, top team effectiveness, and organisational culture.

Before joining the firm, Ms Yew led an industry change program while at Global Freight Exchange, the world’s first Internet-based global marketplace for air cargo. Prior to that, she was Executive Director with Goldman Sachs in the European Equities Division and was a Consultant with Monitor Company. Ms Yew started her career with the Singapore Economic Development Board, helping Singapore companies develop their presence in Indochina and Myanmar in the early 1990s. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the National University of Singapore and chairs the Industry Advisory Board of NUS’ Centre for FutureReady Graduates. Ms Yew also serves on the Board of Governors of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus group of schools in Singapore, the Board of Workforce Singapore and the Advisory Board of Women’s Forum Singapore. Ms Yew is a member of the Asia Advisory Board of Allianz and sits on the board of The Majurity Trust and chairs the Tangent Initiative.

Ms Yew has a BA with Honours in English and Drama from the University of Kent and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.