Steinar Bjørnbet

Steinar Bjørnbet

General Manager (CEO) Statkraft Enerji Turkey

Location
Istanbul, Turkey
Industry
Oil & Energy

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Steinar Bjørnbet's Overview

Current
  • General Manager (CEO) Statkraft Enerji Turkey at Statkraft
Past

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Education
  • Pacific Lutheran University - School of Business
  • Royal Norwegian Army
  • Høgskolen i Nord-Trøndelag (HiNT)
  • Orkdal videregående skole

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Connections

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Steinar Bjørnbet's Summary

20 years of experience working in energy, newspaper & online media, Internet portal industry and consulting & management for hire in Norway, Poland, Turkey and in the US.

Experience with managing people and teams directly, indirectly, in matrix and through Board of Directors.

Extensive experience from business development, strategy and budget processes, M&A analysis, executing restructuring plans and major negotiations.

Result oriented management style motivating subordinates and teams to excel. Predictable, decision oriented, ethical and tolerant. Active use of corporate culture and goals&values in achieving success.

Specialties

Mergers, acquisitions and divestures
Corporate and strategic business development
Restructuring and positioning in the market
Financial structure and development
Optimize business processes
Build people and systems for business controlling
Negotiations in purchasing and acquisitions
Native Norwegian, fluent English, speaks Polish and beginner level Russian

Steinar Bjørnbet's Experience

General Manager (CEO) Statkraft Enerji Turkey

Statkraft

Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Oil & Energy industry

August 2009 – Present (2 years 10 months) Istanbul, Turkey

Acquired portfolio of hydropower projects (640MW / 2TWh) in Turkey. Setting up Statkraft organization in Turkey with about 120 persons spread on 4 offices. Responsible for managing development, construction and operation of assets of about EUR 850 millions.

Advisor / Senior Business Developer

Statkraft

Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Oil & Energy industry

January 2008 – July 2009 (1 year 7 months) Oslo Area, Norway

Developing M&A, partnership and greenfield investment opportunities in Southeast Europe primarily within hydro energy, but also monitoring opportunities within other technologies

Managing Director (CEO)

Tinde.no

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

October 2006 – December 2007 (1 year 3 months) Oslo Area, Norway

Responsible for a leading classified portal for real estate, motor, jobs, travel and this&that. Managed budget of EUR 6 million. The CEO assignment ended in middle of 2007.

Board Member in Tinde, N3Sport, Hardware, Opoint and Kvinneguiden

Deputy Director and CFO

Edda Digital

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Media Production industry

August 2005 – September 2006 (1 year 2 months) Oslo Area, Norway

Involved in building up the Internet activities of Mecom Europe and Edda Media. Responsible for finance and especially for the classified advertisement sector. Annual budget of about EUR 35 million.

Chairman of the Board in Hardware and Opoint, Board Member in Tinde and N3Sport

Deputy Managing Director and CFO

Orkla Press Polska

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry

May 2000 – July 2005 (5 years 3 months) Warsaw Area, Poland

Managed a team of 3 central financial managers directly and 7 regional Financial Directors in matrix.

Successfully redesigned the head-office financial department, establishing focus on operational follow-up, synergy projects, acquisition and investment analysis, internal controls and implementing group policies and procedures.

Supervised drafting acquisition analysis for several regional newspapers, investment analysis, strategic plans and budgets.

Managed budget of 150 million Eur.

Member of Orkla IT forum, Orkla Media IT strategy steering committee and Orkla Media Purchasing Network. Chairman of the Board and Board Member for various companies in Central/Eastern Europe.

Manager - Corporate Development (M&A)

Orkla Press Polska

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry

October 1997 – June 2000 (2 years 9 months) Warsaw Area, Poland

Was relocated to Poland to set up a M&A unit locally in order to be closer to the acquisition targets and ensure the quality of the acquisition proposals for the Board of Directors in Orkla Media and Orkla ASA.

Managed a team of 1 project manager and project consultants.

Supervised drafting acquisition analysis for several regional newspapers, strategic plans and budgets.

Project manager

Orkla Media AS

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ORK; Newspapers industry

April 1995 – September 1997 (2 years 6 months) Oslo Area, Norway

Drafted the online media strategy for Orkla Media in 1995. Performed acquisition analysis for several Internet companies. Board member in some Internet companies after aquisition.

Consultant & Office Manager

Business Management Services (USA)

December 1992 – March 1995 (2 years 4 months) Greater Seattle Area

Main activity was Business Process Reengineering (BPR) where I was rented out to do daily management while changing business processes.

Assigments inlcudes Process Service Inc (managed 8 persons) and Homefinders Inc (managed main sales office)

Steinar Bjørnbet's Honors and Awards

  • Who is Who

    Who is Who in U.S universities
    • December 1992

    Top 2% of students in U.S universities and colleges based on the combination of academic grades and extra curricular activities

  • Beta Gamma Sigma membership

    Beta Gamme Sigma
    • December 1992

    Awarded to the top 5% for academic performance in Busines School

Steinar Bjørnbet's Courses

  • MBA, International Business - Pacific Rim

    Pacific Lutheran University - School of Business

    • Thesis: Vietnam - The Next Asian Tiger
    • Thesis: Pudong - The Future Expansion Area of Shanghai

Steinar Bjørnbet's Languages

  • Norwegian

    (Native or bilingual proficiency)

  • English

    (Full professional proficiency)

  • Polish

    (Professional working proficiency)

  • Russian

    (Limited working proficiency)

  • Turkish

    (Elementary proficiency)

Steinar Bjørnbet's Education

Pacific Lutheran University - School of Business

MBA, International Business - Pacific Rim

1991 – 1992

Internship at Mountain Safety Research (market expansion in South-East Asia)
Internship in Department of Commerce - Small business administration
Thesis: Vietnam - The Next Asian Tiger: Preparing for investment in Vietnam before the trade embargo was liftet
Thesis: Pudong - the future expansion area of Shanghai

Activities and Societies: College Appropirations committee, Multicultural Student Body, Norwegian-American Student Chamber of Commerce

Royal Norwegian Army

Corporal

1990 – 1991

Mandatroy service served in Norwegian Artillery, Guiding Troop (finding coordinates for artillery targets). Promoted to Corporal during service.

Høgskolen i Nord-Trøndelag (HiNT)

Cand. Mag., Business Administration, Economics, Personell psycology

1988 – 1990

Completed a regional cand. mag degree in 2 1/2 years (normally 4 years). The major was business administration, minors included macroeconomics and personell psycology

Activities and Societies: Regional college student body

Orkdal videregående skole

General High School Diploma, Science and Maths

1985 – 1988

Activities and Societies: Financial Manager - Student Council

Steinar Bjørnbet's Additional Information

Interests:

Family, Greece, real estate, walking in mountains and swimming.

Groups and Associations:

Have been Chairman of Board and Board Member of various Chamber of Commerce organizations as I am interested in doing business in other cultures, Jaycees

Honors and Awards:

Who is Who among students in U.S. Colleges and Universities Award as I was within top 0,5% as well as involved in relevant extracurricular activities

Beta Gamma Sigma as I was within the top 5% of MBA business students

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