- Leadership
- Board
Kenneth Hvid
Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Kenneth Hvid has served as President and CEO since 2017 and joined the board of Teekay Corporation on June 10, 2019. He has served as a director of Teekay Offshore GP L.L.C. since 2011, as a director of Teekay Tankers Ltd since 2017 and reappointed a director of Teekay GP L.L.C. in September 2018, having served as a director previously from 2011 to 2015. Mr. Hvid was appointed Chairman of Teekay GP L.L.C. on May 29, 2019 and Chairman of Teekay Tankers Ltd. on June 12, 2019. He joined Teekay Corporation in 2000 and was responsible for leading its global procurement activities until he was promoted in 2004 to Senior Vice President, Teekay Gas Services. During that time, Mr. Hvid was involved in leading Teekay Corporation through its entry and growth in the liquefied natural gas business. He held that position until the beginning of 2006, when he was appointed President of the Teekay Navion Shuttle Tankers and Offshore division. In that role, he was responsible for Teekay Corporation’s global shuttle tanker business as well as initiatives in the floating, storage and offtake business and related offshore activities. Mr. Hvid served as Teekay Corporation’s Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President from 2011 to 2015, and as President and CEO of Teekay Offshore Group Ltd., from 2015 to 2016. Mr. Hvid has 30 years of global shipping experience, 12 of which were spent with A.P. Moller in Copenhagen, San Francisco and Hong Kong. In 2007, Mr. Hvid joined the board of Gard P. & I. (Bermuda) Ltd.
Arthur Bensler
Executive Vice President, Corporate Secretary and General Counsel
Arthur Bensler joined Teekay in 1998 as General Counsel. He was promoted to the position of Vice President in 2002 and became Corporate Secretary in 2003. He was appointed Senior Vice President in 2004 and Executive Vice President in 2006. Mr. Bensler has served as a director of Teekay Tankers Ltd. since 2013. He also served as Chairman of Teekay Tankers Ltd. from 2013 until June 12, 2019. Mr. Bensler has served as Secretary of Teekay Tankers Ltd. from 2007 until 2014 and was reappointed on July 31, 2019. Prior to joining Teekay, Mr. Bensler was a partner in a large Vancouver, Canada law firm, where he practiced corporate, commercial and maritime law from 1987 until 1998.
William Hung
Executive Vice President, Strategic Development
William Hung joined Teekay in 1995 and has served as Executive Vice President, Strategic Development since 2016. Prior to this position, Mr. Hung has worked in a variety of roles at Teekay including Chartering, Business Development, Finance and Accounting, Commercial and Strategic Development. Additionally, Mr. Hung served as Chief Executive Officer of Tanker Investments Ltd. from 2014 until its merger with Teekay Tankers Ltd. in November 2017.
Mark Kremin
President and Chief Executive Officer, Teekay Gas Group Ltd.
Mark Kremin was appointed President and CEO, Teekay Gas Group Ltd., a company that provides services to Teekay LNG Partners L.P. and its subsidiaries in February 2017. He was appointed President of Teekay Gas Services in 2015 having acted as its Vice President since 2006. Mr. Kremin has over 20 years of experience in shipping. In 2000, he joined Teekay as in-house counsel. He subsequently held commercial roles within Teekay Gas. He represents Teekay on the boards of joint ventures with partners in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Prior to joining Teekay, he was an attorney in an admiralty law firm in Manhattan. Prior to attending law school in New York City, he worked for a leading owner and operator of containerships.
Vincent Lok
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Vincent Lok has served as Teekay’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since 2007. He has held a number of finance and accounting positions with Teekay, including Controller from 1997 until his promotions to the positions of Vice President, Finance in 2002, Senior Vice President and Treasurer in 2004, and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2006. Mr. Lok served as director of Teekay GP L.L.C., the general partner of Teekay LNG Partners L.P. from 2015 to September 2018 and served as the Chief Financial Officer of Teekay Tankers Ltd. from 2007 until December 2017. Prior to joining Teekay, Mr. Lok worked as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte & Touche LLP. Mr. Lok is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Kevin Mackay
President and Chief Executive Officer, Teekay Tankers Ltd.
Kevin Mackay was appointed as President and CEO of Teekay Tankers Ltd., a controlled subsidiary of Teekay, in 2014. Mr. Mackay joined Teekay Tankers from Phillips 66, where he headed the global marine business unit and held a similar role as the General Manager, Commercial Marine at ConocoPhillips from 2009 to 2012 before the formation of Phillips 66. Mr. Mackay started his career working for Neptune Orient Lines in Singapore from 1991 to 1995. He then joined AET Inc. Limited (AET) (formerly American Eagle Tankers Inc.) in Houston, becoming the Regional Director – Americas, Senior Vice President. Mr. Mackay holds a B.Sc. (Econ) Honours from the London School of Economics & Political Science and has extensive international experience.
David Schellenberg
Chairman
David Schellenberg joined the board of Teekay Corporation (NYSE:TK) in 2017 and was appointed Chairman of the Board on June 10, 2019. Mr. Schellenberg joined the board of Teekay GP L.L.C., the general partner of Teekay LNG Partners L.P. on May 29, 2019 and the board of Teekay Tankers Ltd. (NYSE:TK) on June 12, 2019. Mr. Schellenberg brings over 25 years of financial and operating leadership experience. Mr. Schellenberg is currently a Managing Director and Principal with Highland West Capital, a private equity firm in Vancouver, Canada. Prior to that, Mr. Schellenberg was with Conair Group and its subsidiary Cascade Aerospace, specialty aviation and aerospace business, from 2000 to 2013 and was President and CEO from 2007 to 2013. Mr. Schellenberg also acted as a Managing Director in the Corporate Office of the Jim Pattison Group, Canada’s second largest private company, from 1991 to 2000. Mr. Schellenberg is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, holds an MBA and is a Fellow of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (FCPA, FCA).
Kenneth Hvid
Director
Kenneth Hvid joined the board of Teekay Corporation on June 10, 2019 and has served as President and CEO since 2017. Mr. Hvid has served as a director of Teekay Offshore GP L.L.C. since 2011, as a director of Teekay Tankers Ltd. since 2017 and reappointed a director of Teekay GP L.L.C. in 2018, having served as a director previously from 2011 to 2015. Mr. Hvid was appointed Chairman of Teekay GP L.L.C. on May 29, 2019 and Chairman of Teekay Tankers Ltd. on June 12, 2019. He joined Teekay Corporation in 2000 and was responsible for leading its global procurement activities until he was promoted in 2004 to Senior Vice President, Teekay Gas Services. During that time, Mr. Hvid was involved in leading Teekay Corporation through its entry and growth in the liquefied natural gas business. He held that position until the beginning of 2006, when he was appointed President of the Teekay Navion Shuttle Tankers and Offshore division. In that role, he was responsible for Teekay Corporation’s global shuttle tanker business as well as initiatives in the floating, storage and offtake business and related offshore activities. Mr. Hvid served as Teekay Corporation’s Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President from 2011 to 2015, and as President and CEO of Teekay Offshore Group Ltd., from 2015 to 2016. Mr. Hvid has 30 years of global shipping experience, 12 of which were spent with A.P. Moller in Copenhagen, San Francisco and Hong Kong. In 2007, Mr. Hvid joined the board of Gard P. & I. (Bermuda) Ltd.
Alan Semple
Director
Alan Semple has served as a Teekay director since 2015. Mr. Semple joined the board of Teekay GP L.L.C., the general partner of Teekay LNG Partners L.P. on May 29, 2019. Mr. Semple brings over 30 years of finance experience primarily in the energy industry to the Company’s Board. He was formerly Director and Chief Financial Officer at John Wood Group PLC (Wood Group), a provider of engineering, production support and maintenance management services to the oil and gas and power generation industries, a role he held from 2000 until his retirement in 2015. Prior to this, Mr. Semple held a number of senior finance roles in Wood Group from 1996. Mr. Semple currently serves on the Board of Cactus, Inc. (NYSE) where he is Chair of the Audit Committee. He also served as director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Cobham PLC (LSE) until April 2018.
Rudolph Krediet
Director
Rudolph Krediet joined the board of Teekay in 2017. Mr. Krediet brings over 15 years of experience as a financial investment professional. He has served as a Partner at Anholt Services (USA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kattegat Trust, which oversees the trust’s globally diverse investment portfolio, since 2013. Mr. Krediet has acted as Principal at Compass Group Management LLC, the manager of Compass Diversified Holdings, a publicly traded investment holding company, from 2010 to 2013, and as Vice President from 2006 to 2009. He acted as Vice President at CPM Roskamp Champion, a global leader in the design of manufacturing of oil seed processing equipment, from 2003 to 2004. Mr. Krediet has an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia.
Heidi Locke Simon
Director
Heidi Locke Simon joined the board of Teekay in 2017. Ms. Locke Simon brings over 25 years of strategic management experience to the Teekay Board. She was formerly a Partner at Bain & Company, a global management consulting organization, where she worked from 1993 to 2012. Prior to this, Ms. Locke Simon was an Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co. She has contributed to HBS Community Partners, a volunteer consulting organization, from 2013 to 2106. She has served as a Board Observer with Teekay from 2016 to 2017, a director of KQED Public Media from 2008 to 2014 and director of Turning Green from 2004 to present. Ms. Locke Simon holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Peter Antturi
Director
Peter Antturi joined the board of Teekay on June 10, 2019. He brings over 30 years of financial and operational experience in the shipping industry. Mr. Antturi serves as an executive officer and director of Teekay’s largest shareholder, Resolute Investments, Ltd. (Resolute) and other subsidiaries and affiliates of Kattegat Limited, a parent company of Resolute. He is also an executive officer and owner of Anglemont Financial Services Ltd., a joint venture with Kattegat Limited that provides financial services to Kattegat Limited and its subsidiaries. Mr. Antturi previously worked with Teekay from 1991 through 2005, serving as President of Teekay’s shuttle tankers division and as Teekay’s Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Controller and in other finance and accounting positions. Prior to joining Teekay, Mr. Antturi held various accounting and finance roles in the shipping industry since 1985.
Board Committee Composition
| Name of Director | Audit Committee | Compensation and Human Resources Committee |
Nominating and Governance Committee |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Schellenberg | X | X | Chair |
| Kenneth Hvid* | X | ||
| Alan Semple | Chair | ||
| Heidi Locke Simon | X | Chair | X |
| Rudolph Krediet | X | ||
| Peter Antturi |
* Employee Director