Our Team Vianney Vales is the CEO of Wastefront AS. He was previously the CEO of Devaltec LLC, a Project Developer in Sustainable Energies and a strategic partner of Wastefront in the development of projects. He is a former top executive in Oil & Gas in Shell and Galp Energia, and a founder and CEO of multiple biofuels companies, such as SGC Energia and Biovegetal. Vianney ValèsCEO Vegard Bringsjord is the Chief Financial Officer & Co-Founder of Wastefront. Vegard is also a Partner at Jagca Capital. His experience ranges from asset finance, restructuring, and risk management in energy, to shipping and commodity trade - having worked at Nordea’s Shipping, Offshore, and Oil Services Division as well as Angola LNG Marketing. Vegard BringsjordCFO and Co-Founder Christian A. Hvamstad is the Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder of Wastefront. Hvamstad previously founded Jagca Capital and was a former board member of Quantafuel UK, building up over 15 years of experience in wealth management, capital markets and credit management, having worked at Nordea, SEB, First Securities, and Lindorff. Hvamstad also serves as a member of the Wastefront board. Christian A. HvamstadCSO, Director and Co-Founder Inge Berge is the Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder of Wastefront. He previously co-founded Quantafuel - producers of high-quality synthetic fuels and chemical products based on non-recyclable plastics waste. He is a serial entrepreneur and has managerial experience working in senior positions at several listed and unlisted companies, from the industrial, lifestyle and media sector internationally and the Nordics, having worked in Idex, First House, and Amedia. Inge BergeCOO and Co-Founder Henrik Selstam is an Engineering Physicist and Chief Technology Officer at Wastefront. He was a co-founder of Quantafuel and ScandGreen Energy, and has more than 25 years of experience as founder and CEO/MD of multiple companies in IT, Real Estate, and Waste - including Energy MSX International, Bridge Group International, and Fastighetsinvest. During a Masters Engineering Physics from Chalmers University of Technology, Henrik specialised in Neutron Physics, Medical Electronics, and Macro Economics. Henrik SelstamCTO Jorge Moreno has more than 20 years of experience from the oil & gas and renewable sectors, starting in PEMEX in 1996. He has also worked in Aker Solutions for several international projects, and in Quantafuel, a company using renewable technology for transforming waste plastic into fuel, as a Principal Engineer. Mr. Moreno is responsible of the technology management for Wastefront.He holds a bachelor in Industrial and Electronic engineering, a master degree in Business Administration, and a Doctoral degree in Engineering and Offshore Technology from the University of Stavanger, Norway. Jorge MorenoR&D Manager Mike Donaghy has over 15 years operational management experience on top tier COMAH sites in the UK working for Ineos Nitriles and Koppers Carbon Chemicals. Prior to that he spent several years as a process development chemist for DOW, BASF & Thomas Swan. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Applied Chemistry and a PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. Mike DonaghyOperations Manager - Sunderland A member of the Devaltec team, Filipe Marques has over 20 years of professional experience in alternative fuels project development. With a chemical engineering background, he has worked in R&D, Technology Management, EPC-Capital Projects, and Operations. He worked for companies such as SGC Energia, Technip, and the Portuguese National Technology Institute (LNEG). Filipe MarquesProject Management A member of the Devaltec team, Jorge Sampaio Silva has over 20 years of professional experience in alternative fuels project development. With a chemical engineering background, he is a project engineer but also supports project control, financial modeling, and business development. More recently, he was a Business Development Analyst/Coordinator for the biofuels company SGCE Energia. Jorge Sampaio SilvaProject Control A member of the Devaltec team, Dr. Govind Raman is a Chemical Engineer with over thirty years of experience in Process and Project Development, Pilot plant, FEED and detailed engineering & Start-up. He has managed multiple engineering projects in the field of New Energies. Prior to Devaltec, he worked for Technology and EPC companies. He holds a Ph.D., from I.I.T., Bombay, India. Govind RamanEngineering A member of the Devaltec team, John Hemmings has decades of experience leading teams of engineers and scientists to bring new technologies from the laboratory to commercialization. He worked in Synthetic Fuels, Alternative Energy, Engineering and Commodity Chemical companies (AECI, Foster Wheeler, SNC Lavalin, SGC Energia, Climax Global Energy). He holds several patents and is a past winner of the Gold Medal of the South African Institution of Chemical Engineers for Process Innovation. John HemmingsProject / Technology Interface A member of the Devaltec team, Andrew was a top executive in Oil & Gas with a focus on commissioning/start-up and operations across international chemicals, oil and gas operations. He led the start-up of the Shell Bintulu Gas to Liquids facility and was responsible for the CSU integration of the Chevron Gorgon LNG project. This first-hand experience saw his key involvement in the development and implementation of operational readiness/assurance and flawless start-up programs both of which remain embedded in Shell project development to this day. Andrew WattSenior Operations Advisor Founder of Castellum Consulting. More than 10 years of experience in commodities, project execution and decentralised energy industries, having worked in BP, GP Planning and Tamar Energy Simon GreavesPlanning & Permitting Ingrid Flåte holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from NTNU in Trondheim, Norway and a Master's degree in Analytical Chemistry from SDU in Odense, Denmark, where she specialized and wrote her thesis in "Trace Elements in Colour Pigments in Danish Murals Detected by LA-ICP-MS Ingrid M. Tveitan FlåteChemical & Process Research ScientistOur board members
