- 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 2019. He has served as a director of Teekay Tankers Ltd. since 2017 and was appointed as its Chair in June 2019. He also served as a director of Teekay GP L.L.C., the general partner of Teekay LNG Partners L.P. (now known as Seapeak LLC), from September 2018 to January 2022 and from 2011 to 2015, and served as its Chair from May 2019 until January 2022. 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.
Brody Speers
Vice President, Finance and Treasurer
Brody Speers was appointed as Vice President, Finance and Treasurer of Teekay Corporation in January 2022. He joined Teekay Corporation in 2008 and has served in several senior financial positions in Teekay’s Finance, Accounting and Strategic Development departments. Mr. Speers was promoted to Director, Finance in 2013 and to Vice President, Finance in 2017. Mr. Speers also served as Chief Financial Officer of Teekay Gas Group Ltd., a company that provided services to Teekay LNG Partners L.P. (now Seapeak LLC) and its affiliates, in 2017 and 2018. Prior to joining Teekay, Mr. Speers worked as a Chartered Professional Accountant for an accounting firm in Vancouver, Canada. Mr. Speers is also a Chartered Business Valuator.
Frans Lotz
General Counsel, Secretary and Privacy Officer
Frans Lotz was appointed as General Counsel, Secretary and Privacy Officer of Teekay Corporation in October 2022, after having served as Secretary and Privacy Officer since March 2022. He has also served as Secretary of Teekay Tankers Ltd. since March 2022. Mr. Lotz joined Teekay Corporation in 2018 as in-house legal counsel. Prior to joining Teekay, Mr. Lotz practised finance and corporate law in Vancouver, Canada. Mr. Lotz is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia and holds a Juris Doctor from Dalhousie University, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Alberta and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Pretoria.
N. Angelique Burgess
Assistant Secretary
N. Angelique Burgess was appointed as Assistant Secretary of Teekay Corporation in September 2020. She is also the Assistant Secretary of Teekay Tankers Ltd and acted as Secretary of Teekay GP L.L.C., the general partner of Teekay LNG Partners L.P. (now Seapeak LLC) from June 2020 to June 2022. 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 and Director on the Bermuda Shipping and Maritime Authority Board, Past President, and a Director on WISTA Bermuda Board and Board Director on the Bermuda Maritime Academy.
David Schellenberg
Chairman
David Schellenberg joined the board of Teekay Corporation in 2017 and was appointed as its Chair in June 2019. Mr. Schellenberg has served on the board of Teekay Tankers Ltd. since June 2019 and served on the board of Teekay GP L.L.C., the general partner of Teekay LNG Partners L.P. (now known as Seapeak LLC), from May 2019 until Stonepeak’s acquisition of Seapeak in January 2022. 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 Chair in 2019. He also served as a director of Teekay GP L.L.C., the general partner of Teekay LNG Partners L.P. (now known as Seapeak LLC), from September 2018 to January 2022 and from 2011 to 2015, and was appointed as its Chair 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 currently serves as the Chair of the Audit Committee of Teekay Corporation. He previously served on the board of Teekay GP L.L.C., the general partner of Teekay LNG Partners L.P. (now known as Seapeak LLC), from May 2019 until Stonepeak’s acquisition of Seapeak in January 2022. 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 Chair of the Audit Committee. He also served as a director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Cobham PLC (LSE: COB) until 2018. Mr. Semple graduated from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland) in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
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 also served as a director of Teekay GP L.L.C., the general partner of Teekay LNG Partners L.P. (now known as Seapeak LLC), from June 2021 until Stonepeak’s acquisition of Seapeak in January 2022. Ms. Locke Simon was formerly a partner at Bain & Company, a global management consulting organization, where she worked from 1993 to 2012. Prior to this, she was an Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co. 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. Ms. Locke Simon has served as Board Chair of Reflex Protect, Inc. since 2021, 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. He also joined the board of Teekay Tankers Ltd. in June 2021. Additionally, 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. 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