Tor Olav Trøim is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 businessperson

Businessperson

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 and engineer

Engineer

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. He holds a number of executive and board positions in John Fredriksen

John Fredriksen

John Fredriksen, is a Norwegian-born Cypriot oil tanker and shipping tycoon, owner of the world's largest oil tanker fleet, and was Norway's richest man until he chose to abandon his Norwegian citizenship and take up a Cypriot passport. Norwegian magazine Kapital listed Fredriksen in 2010 with a...

-controlled companies, and is often described as his right hand.
Mr. Trøim graduated as M.Sc. Naval Architect from the University of Trondheim, Norway in 1985. Mr. Trøim is a Norwegian citizen and is resident in the UK. His career includes Portfolio Manager Equity in Storebrand ASA (1987- 1990), CEO for the Norwegian Oil Company DNO AS (1992-1995).

Since 1995, Mr. Trøim has been a director of SeaTankers Management in Cyprus. He has in his function been central in taking the Greenwich Group to the public markets. In this function he has acted as CEO for the public companies Frontline Ltd (NYSE), Golar LNG Ltd (NASDAQ) and SeaDrill Ltd (OSE). Mr. Trøim is currently Chairman of Golar LNG Energy Ltd. and Independent Tanker Corporation Ltd. He is a board member in Seadrill, Seawell, Golden Ocean Ltd. and Marine Harvest ASA in addition to Chairman of the Board of Aktiv Kapital.

He has since 2004 been vice president of Golden Ocean Group

Golden Ocean Group

Golden Ocean Group is a Bermuda registered, Norway based dry bulk shipping company. The company was created as a demerged part of Frontline in 2004 and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange...

 and since 2001 of Golar LNG

Golar LNG

Golar LNG is liquefied natural gas shipping company based in London and registered in Bermuda. The company operates 13 LNG carriers and is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and NASDAQ and is controlled by John Fredriksen.-History:...

, as well as Knightsbridge Tankers Limited and Ship Finance International. He also sits on the board of Aktiv Kaptal and Marine Harvest.

Trøim graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology

Norwegian Institute of Technology

The Norwegian Institute of Technology, known by its Norwegian abbrevation NTH was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 85 years, after which it was merged into the University of Trondheim as an independent...

, Trondheim

Trondheim

Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

, in 1985 with a graduate marine engineering degree. He worked as a portfolio manager for Storebrand

Storebrand

Storebrand is a financial services company in Norway. By volume, the company's main activities are related to life insurance and pension savings. However, the company also has major divisions working on investments, banking and, since 2006, P&C insurance products...

 (1987–90) and later as CEO of DNO (1992–95). In 1995 he joined SeaTankers Management of Cyprus, when he became part of the John Fredriksen sphere, and became CEO of Frontline

Frontline Ltd.

Frontline Ltd. is one of the world's largest oil tanker shipping companies, based in Hamilton, Bermuda and controlled by John Fredriksen. Its primary business is transporting crude oil...

. He has also been CEO of Seadrill

SeaDrill

Seadrill is a Norwegian-Bermudan offshore drilling company with operations in Angola, Brunei, the Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Norway, Thailand and the United Kingdom. The company operates Semi-submersibles, Jack ups, Tender rigs, Semi-Tenders and Drillships. The company is...

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