Marcus is a qualified naval architect and has over 25 years of experience in the rig building industry. He started in 1987 with Keppel fels and served as Naval Architect, Project Engineer, Project Manager, Marketing Manager, General Manager Engineering. He successfully built and delivered several multi-million offshore projects including the Petrobras P-18 production semi-submersible and Saga Varg FPSO.

In 1997 he joined Smedvig (now known as Seadrill) as Director of Business Development and concurrently Director of Projects where he successfully managed the building and commissioning of a complete new fleet of 10 modern tender rigs in the market over the last 12 years. He holds a Diplome d’Ingenieur from Ecole Centrale de Nantes and a post graduate PMD from Harvard Business School.

Interview with Energy Boardroom – 23rd December 2013
Interview with Upstream, The International Oil & Gas Newspaper – 18th March 2016