The oil expert moves from one Røkke company to another.
The former oil analyst has served as chief economist at Kjell Inge Røkke-controlled Aker since 2019. He is now moving to oil company Aker BP, where he will take on the same role.
– I have always had a split role between Aker and Aker BP, but that is where I spent most of my time at Aker, Kjus wrote in an SMS to E24.
Kjus says that in the future he will spend most of his time at Aker BP and has therefore changed his office location and main focus to Aker BP.
– But I'm still sitting in the same building I live in at Aker and will still spend part of my time updating management and the board at Aker and being a facilitator for the analysis network in the Aker family.
– So there's very little drama in this, but I'm looking forward to focusing more on the most valuable part of Aker's system.
– Why is this happening now?
– It could have happened earlier, however Øyvind EriksenØyvind EriksenCEO of Akar Company In the first quarter report GuidedGuidedNotified More focus on the biggest value drivers in the Aker family, and to me, that means more focus on Aker BP, which represents about 80 percent of Aker's market capitalization.
Kjos previously worked at pharmaceutical company Vistin Pharma, where he worked to create an energy trading division, a project he ended up canceling.
Before that, he headed the oil analysis department at DNB Markets for 11 years.
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