Senior Management

Wastefront has a world class management team which, collectively, has developed, built, and operated over $500mn worth of Energy Transition projects including Waste-to-Energy in the UK, Plastic-to-Liquids, and two 100,000 tonnes per annum (TPA) biofuels refineries in Europe.

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 Valès

Chief Executive Officer

Vegard Bringsjord is the Chief Financial Officer & Co-Founder of Wastefront. 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 Bringsjord

Chief Financial Officerand 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 Berge

Chief Commercial Officerand 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.

Christian A. Hvamstad

Chief Strategy Officerand 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 Selstam

Chief Technology Officerand Director

Team

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 Donaghy

Operations 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 Marques

Project 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 Silva

Project Control

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 Hemmings

Project / Technology Interface

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 Raman

Engineering

Lars Erik Fareid has extensive experience within the field of chemical recycling of waste materials, industrialization of chemical recycling a well as raw material and product control. He was involved in the process engineering and start-up of the world’s largest post-consumer plastics chemical recycling facility. Before he started his own consultancy firm, Chemgot, he held the position of Vice President of R&D in Quantafuel, a plastic recycling company. Lars Erik holds a M.Sc. in chemical engineering from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) from 2006.

Lars Erik Fareid

Operations Consultant

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 Moreno

R&D Manager

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 Flåte

Chemical & Process Research Scientist

Samuel Ransau has many years of experience in the oil and gas industry and IT industry. He has had different positions such as research engineer, system engineer, data scientist, technical team leader and project manager in companies such as FMC Technologies, Aker Solutions or Seaflex with focus on development of subsea equipment for production of oil and gas. Samuel holds a Master of Engineering in Mathematical Modelling and a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from INSA Toulouse in France, a PhD in Numerical methods for Hydrodynamics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim Norway and an MBA in Global Management from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain.

Samuel Ransau

Systems & Simulations Engineer

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 Greaves

Planning & Permitting

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 Watt

Senior Operations Advisor

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