BW Group-backed shipowner Cadeler wants to expand its board by adding UK class society Lloyd’s Register chairman Thomas Thune Andersen.
The world’s biggest wind turbine installation vessel owner has called an extraordinary meeting next month to increase the number of directors from six to seven.
Former AP Moller-Maersk executive Thune Andersen has been proposed as the latest member.
He already sits on the board of Denmark-based Cadeler’s Singapore parent BW Group.
Dane Thune Andersen, born in 1955, will serve an initial term of two years if elected.
He is also chair of Lloyd’s Register Foundation and VKR Holding, senior independent director of IMI and a director at Lambert Energy.
Thune Andersen has been a member of the Danish Committee on Corporate Governance since 2018.
He has previously served as chair of Danish energy giant Orsted and Deep Ocean Group Holding, as well as sitting on the boards of BW Offshore, SSE and Petrofac.
Cadeler said Andersen has “extensive international experience”.
In 2012, he became the first foreigner to chair Lloyd’s Register in its 250-year history, replacing David Moorhouse, who retired.
He served with Maersk for more than 30 years, running Maersk Oil and rising to its executive board.
Thune Andersen began as a shipping trainee at the Danish group in 1977.
He was managing director of UK subsidiary The Maersk Company in the late 1990s.
He joined BW Group as a director in 2019.
The BW board is headed by chairman Andreas Sohmen-Pao and vice chairman Emanuele Lauro following the merger with Scorpio Group’s wind farm ship operation Eneti.
