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Seadrill Limited — Board/Management Information 2020
Apr 21, 2020
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SDRL - Seadrill Limited Board Changes
SDRL - Seadrill Limited Board Changes
Hamilton, Bermuda, April 21 2020 - Seadrill Limited ("Seadrill" or the
"Company") is pleased to announce that Bjarte Bøe will join the Board from April
21, 2020, replacing Birgitte Ringstad Vartdal who will step down following her
recent appointment as Executive Vice President of European Wind and Solar at
Statkraft.
Mr Bøe brings extensive experience serving on boards and audit committees of
public companies, and has over thirty years of experience in the finance
industry. He currently serves as a Director of the NYSE-listed Hermitage
Offshore, and is a member of its Audit Committee. Mr Bøe sits on the Board of
Agera Venture, a Norwegian Venture Capital company, and is a member of the
Nomination Committee of BW Offshore Ltd. He also serves as the Chairman of the
Investment Committee at SEB Venture Capital, a subsidiary of Skandinaviska
Enskilda Banken AB (publ), or SEB, a Nordic financial services group, where
from 1995 to 2019, he held a range of senior management positions. Mr Bøe holds
an M.B.A. from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.
Glen Ole Rødland, Chairman commented: "I would like to sincerely thank Birgitte
for the valuable insight, experience and contribution she has brought to the
Board and Audit Committee of Seadrill since taking up these roles in 2018
following our restructuring. I wish her every success with her new appointment
at Statkraft.
We warmly welcome Bjarte to the Seadrill Board. His significant career in the
financial sector, together with his public company directorship and board
committee experience, complement a board and management focused on further
developing Seadrill's position as the leading offshore driller."
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This news release includes forward looking statements. Such statements are
generally not historical in nature, and specifically include statements about
the Company's plans, strategies, business prospects, changes and trends in its
business, the markets in which it operates and its restructuring efforts. These
statements are made based upon management's current plans, expectations,
assumptions and beliefs concerning future events impacting the Company and
therefore involve a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the
forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this news
release. Consequently, no forward-looking statement can be guaranteed. When
considering these forward-looking statements, you should keep in mind the risks
described from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 20-F (File No. 333
-224459). The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward looking
statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such
statement is made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. New
factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Company to
predict all of these factors. Further, the Company cannot assess the impact of
each such factor on its business or the extent to which any factor, or
combination of factors, may cause actual results to be materially different from
those contained in any forward looking statement.
This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to Section 5
-12 the Norwegian Securities Trading Act