Per Kristian Bakkerud

(Non-Executive Director)
Joined the Board on June 16, 2015.

He is a Group Vice President of Chemical Business Unit at Haldor Topsoe A/S, Denmark since November 2014.

He has worked as process engineer and project manager for many of Topsoe’s technologies around the world. He served as Head of Syngas Process Engineering, Vice President for Technology and Engineering and Vice President for New Technologies before taking up the position as Managing Director of Haldor Topsoe’s Chinese operations in 2011.

He graduated from The Technical University of Norway in 1980 and has served in various positions for Det Norske Veritas, Norwegian Petroleum Consultants and Exxon Mobil before joining Haldor Topsoe A/S in 1990.

He is the President of Energy Frontiers International and serves as the member of Natural Gas Conversion Board.