- Leadership
- Board
Kenneth Hvid
Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Kenneth Hvid has served as Teekay’s President and Chief Executive Officer since 2017 and joined the board of Teekay Corporation in June 2019. He has served as a director of Teekay Tankers Ltd. since 2017 and was appointed as its chairman in June 2019. He has also served as a director of Teekay GP L.L.C., the general partner of Teekay LNG Partners L.P., since 2018, having previously served as a director from 2011 to 2015, and was appointed as its chairman in May 2019. Mr. Hvid joined Teekay Corporation in 2000 and was promoted to Senior Vice President, Teekay Gas Services, in 2004 and to President of the Teekay Navion Shuttle Tankers and Offshore division in 2006. He served as Teekay Corporation’s Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President from 2011 to 2015. He also served as a director of Altera Infrastructure GP L.L.C. (formerly known as Teekay Offshore GP L.L.C.) from 2011 to June 2020, and as President and Chief Executive Officer 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 and General Counsel in 2002, became the Corporate Secretary in 2003, and was further promoted to Senior Vice President and General Counsel in 2004 and to Executive Vice President and General Counsel in 2006. Mr. Bensler has served as a director of Teekay Tankers Ltd. since 2013, and also served as its chairman from 2013 until June 2019. Mr. Bensler served as Corporate Secretary of Teekay Tankers Ltd. from 2007 until 2014 and was reappointed in July 2019. Prior to joining Teekay, Mr. Bensler was a partner in a large Vancouver, Canada-based 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 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 2017.
Mark Kremin
President and Chief Executive Officer, Teekay Gas Group Ltd.
Mark Kremin was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer of Teekay Gas Group Ltd., a company that provides services to Teekay LNG Partners L.P. and its subsidiaries, in 2017. He had previously been appointed as President of Teekay Gas Services in 2015, having acted as its Vice President since 2006. Mr. Kremin joined Teekay Corporation as in-house counsel in 2000, and subsequently held various commercial roles within Teekay Gas. He represents Teekay Gas on the boards of joint ventures with partners in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Mr. Kremin has over 20 years’ experience in shipping. 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 container ships.
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 a director of Teekay GP L.L.C., the general partner of Teekay LNG Partners L.P., from 2015 to 2018 and also served as the Chief Financial Officer of Teekay Tankers Ltd. from 2007 until 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 Chief Executive Officer of Teekay Tankers Ltd., a controlled subsidiary of Teekay Corporation, in 2014. Mr. Mackay joined Teekay Tankers Ltd. 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 (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.
N. Angelique Burgess
Assistant Corporate Secretary
N. Angelique Burgess was appointed as Assistant Corporate Secretary of Teekay Corporation on September 28, 2020. She also acts as Corporate Secretary of Teekay GP L.L.C., the general partner of Teekay LNG Partners L.P., and as Assistant Corporate Secretary of Teekay Tankers Ltd. Mrs. Burgess joined Teekay Corporation in 2020 and currently serves as Senior Manager, Corporate Affairs. Prior to joining Teekay, she was employed as the General Manager at Concordia Maritime (Bermuda) Ltd., an international tanker shipping company. She has over 25 years of international shipping experience, having started her career at the Bermuda Ship Registry where she held the positions of Assistant Registrar of Shipping and Registrar of Shipping. Mrs. Burgess holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Studies and has completed postgraduate training in Maritime Law. She is a Member of the Institute of Directors and has held several director positions over the years. Her current external roles include Deputy Chairperson of the Bermuda Shipping and Maritime Authority Board and President and Founding Member of WISTA Bermuda.
David Schellenberg
Chairman
David Schellenberg joined the board of Teekay Corporation in 2017 and was appointed as its chairman in June 2019. Mr. Schellenberg joined the board of Teekay GP L.L.C., the general partner of Teekay LNG Partners L.P., in May 2019 and the board of Teekay Tankers Ltd. in June 2019. He is a member of the Audit Committees of both Teekay Corporation and Teekay Tankers Ltd. Mr. Schellenberg brings over 25 years of financial and operating leadership experience to these roles. He 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 specialty aviation and aerospace businesses, Conair Group and its subsidiary Cascade Aerospace, from 2000 to 2013 and served as President and Chief Executive Officer 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 has served as Teekay’s President and Chief Executive Officer since 2017 and joined the board of Teekay Corporation in June 2019. He has served as a director of Teekay Tankers Ltd. since 2017 and was appointed as its chairman in June 2019. He has also served as a director of Teekay GP L.L.C., the general partner of Teekay LNG Partners L.P., since 2018, having previously served as a director from 2011 to 2015, and was appointed as its chairman in May 2019. Mr. Hvid joined Teekay Corporation in 2000 and was promoted to Senior Vice President, Teekay Gas Services, in 2004 and to President of the Teekay Navion Shuttle Tankers and Offshore division in 2006. He served as Teekay Corporation’s Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President from 2011 to 2015. He also served as a director of Altera Infrastructure GP L.L.C. (formerly known as Teekay Offshore GP L.L.C.) from 2011 to June 2020, and as President and Chief Executive Officer 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 director of Teekay Corporation since 2015, and joined the board of Teekay GP L.L.C., the general partner of Teekay LNG Partners L.P., in May 2019. He currently serves as the chairman of the Audit Committees of both Teekay Corporation and Teekay GP L.L.C. Mr. Semple brings over 30 years of finance experience, primarily in the energy industry, to these roles. He was formerly a 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: WHD) where he is the chairman of the Audit Committee. He also served as a director and chairman of the Audit Committee of Cobham PLC (LSE: COB) until 2018.
Rudolph Krediet
Director
Rudolph Krediet joined the board of Teekay Corporation in 2017 and brings over 20 years of experience as a financial investment professional to this role. He has served as a partner at Anholt Services (USA), Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kattegat Trust, which oversees the trust’s globally diversified investment portfolio, since 2013. Mr. Krediet 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 Corporation in 2017 and brings over 25 years of strategic management experience to this role. 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 contributed to HBS Community Partners, a volunteer consulting organization, from 2013 to 2016. She also served as a Board Observer with Teekay Corporation from 2016 to 2017 and as a director of KQED Public Media from 2008 to 2014, and she has served as a director of Turning Green since 2004. Ms. Locke Simon holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Peter Antturi
Director
Peter Antturi joined the board of Teekay Corporation in June 2019 and brings over 30 years of financial and operational experience in the shipping industry to this role. Mr. Antturi serves as an executive officer and director of Teekay Corporation’s largest shareholder, Resolute Investments, Ltd. (Resolute), as well as 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 tanker division, as 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