Aksel Bratvedt has an MSc. from the Physics Department at the Norwegian Institute of Technology . His thesis was on how to calculate the probabilities for cost overruns on the development of the Statfjord fields for the Norwegian oil company Statoil.
Mr. Bratvedt also holds an MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) with focus on finance.
His career started out in banking/investment banking. Firstly he was employed as manager in the shipping department of Bergen Bank in Oslo where he was involved in the financing of ships and oil rigs. In the mid-eighties he was an executive in Hambros Bank in London selling all the services of the bank to the large number of Norwegian corporate clients. The period in Hambros was of great importance giving him a good general knowledge of investment banking services as he spent time in each business area of the bank.
Aksel Bratvedt was a founding partner in Elcon Partners/Securities, one of the first investment banks in Norway. Apart from property financing and creative ship financing he was involved in the defence of one of the most high profile take-over battles in Norwegian corporate history. Altogether Mr. Bratvedt has spent more than 6 years in corporate finance.
With base in Stockholm Aksel Bratvedt has been for 11 years involved in strategy and organisational consulting for CEOs in large companies. The companies have mainly been Swedish and Finnish multinationals. He has also been in house consultant in Ericsson engaged in global customer strategies and development of 3G strategies. His consulting experience has also included acting as advisor for large private equity firms on their investment cases.
During the banking crisis in Sweden in the nineties Mr. Bratvedt was advisor to the CEO of one of the two bad banks that was set up by the government to deal with the large number of non-performing loans. His responsibilities were to advise the CEO on the strategy, organisation and the work out processes and systems for the bad bank. The engagement lasted for nearly 3 years.
Over the last years Aksel Bratvedt has been engaged in developing high growth companies as a CEO and Executive Chairman. He has also in the period been involved as a consultant in strategy and organisation projects for various companies.
Aksel Bratvedt is permanent resident in London where he has been for the last nine years and focuses on developing international growth companies in a number of different industries. His strength is his wide experience from investment banking, management consulting to operations and corporate governance.