Tom Knudsen

Tom Knudsen joined Topaz in February 2015 as the Regional Director of the Africa region. With 30 years of marine industry experience, Mr. Knudsen joined Topaz from the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group where he served as Managing Director for Maersk Line in Istanbul, Black Sea, and prior to that Managing Director Maersk Nigeria. Mr. Knudsen have spent more than 20 years of his career in diverse cultures in Turkey, Nigeria, India, Romania, Liberia, and Kenya among others, and he holds an MBA (AMBA) from AVT Business School, and had attended several management programmes including those from the London Business School, Insead, and IMD.