Management

Michael Schröder
CEO Ultragas
Mr. Schröder became part of the Group in 1989, when he joined the Tugboat Division of Sociedad Naviera Ultragas Ltda. In his 30 years in Ultranav, he has held several management positions in its shipping business units, including CEO of Petrolera Transoceanica S.A. (Peru), CEO of Sociedad Naviera Ultragas Ltda. (Chile) and COO of Ultranav. In 2019, he became CEO of Ultranav Chile, which integrates the shipping segments involved in the Chilean cabotage and regional trades. Mr. Scröder became CEO of Ultragas in 2021. Mr. Schröder graduated as an Industrial Engineer and later obtained an MBA from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Additionally, he completed an Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Mr. Schröder is a Chilean citizen and he resides in Denmark.
Martin Bork
COO

Mr. Bork has more than 29 years of experience in shipping starting at the Danish shipowner Dannebrog Rederi in 1985. In 1990 he moved to Belgium to work for the Belgium Shipowner CMB in their liner division and returned to Denmark in 1993 to work for the Danish shipowner J.Lauritzen. Mr Bork became associated with the Ultranav group in 1997 and has since 2008 held the position as Chief Operation Officer in Ultragas ApS and UltraShip ApS. Mr Bork is a Danish citizen and resides in Denmark.

Kaj S. Pilemand
CTO

Mr. Pilemand was appointed Ultragas CTO in 2013, with the specific task of establishing UltraShip ApS, which is wholly owned by Ultragas Aps, a Danish based technical organization responsible for the technical management of company owned Gas Carriers. He has more than 25 years of experience in shipping starting with a sea going carrier at A.P.Møller-Maersk, where his final sea going position was as Chief Engineer. Subsequently Mr. Pilemand held shore based office positions at Maersk office in Copenhagen and Singapore. In 2006 he joined Clipper – Nordic Tankers as Technical Director, with focus on chemical tankers. Mr. Pilemand is a Danish citizen and resides in Denmark.

Oskar Fabricius
Head of Ultranav Business Support and Business Intelligence
Mr. Oskar Fabricius joined Ultranav Business Support in 2014 first as Head of Operations Control and then a few years later promoted to Head of Operations Control and Business Intelligence, responsible for creating the Business Intelligence unit we have in the company today. He has a financial and analytical background from above mentioned positions, but he has also worked closer to the business as he started his career in shipping as a shipping trainee in Nordic Tankers in 2011 where he after ended traineeship was an operator for 1 year prior to joining Ultranav Business Support. Mr. Fabricius studied a Master of Science in Business Administration and Auditing at Copenhagen Business School in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mr. Fabricius is Danish citizen and resides in Denmark.