Our advisors combine deep industry expertise and operational management experience with good business understanding and strong analytical skills.
Our clients are among the leading players in the power sector in the Nordic region. This means Xrgia is continuously challenged to develop practical solutions to address the challenges our clients face.
Tommy Løvstad
Manager and partner
Tommy has long experience in the energy and telecom industry, with leading positions in companies such as Agder Energi, Norsk Hydro and Telenor. As a consultant, Tommy has worked with business and strategy development as well as process improvements and project management of major infrastructure projects. Tommy has led the cable projects NorGer and NorthConnect, and is now Director of Commercial and Financing in NorthConnect. Tommy is an industrial engineer from NTNU and has an additional degree in Industrial Economics from Küngliga Technical University (KTH) in Sweden.
Tor Saunes
Associated Partner
Tor has many years of experience with operational management and implementation of business processes. For the past ten years, Tor has worked in the energy industry, and before that he worked in Telecom and Venture. Here he worked as Investment Director and General Manager of It Fornebu Invest. As a consultant, Tor has worked as a management for hire in major infrastructure projects - most recently Hafslund Telekom, SAE Vind, Statkraft Wind and now NorthConnect. Tor currently works as a consultant for Sira Kvina and as Project Office Manager in NorthConnect. He holds a MSc Electr Eng from NTNU and a MSc in Business Administration from NHH.
Klaus Vogstad
Associated Partner
Klaus Vogstad holds an MSc in Mech Eng and a PhD in Electr. Eng. NTNU, and has been working in the power industry for 12 years as special adviser Dept of Energy mgmt and trade, then as Head of CoE Wind & Site for SAE wind. He has served as Adjunct Associate Professor at Dept of industrial Economics, NTNU
In recent years Vogstad worked as senior analyst at Meventus AS. Vogstad develops ParkOptimizer and WindFarmDesigns , decision support tools for wind farm development now used worldwide. His expertise include decision support modeling, hydropower, wind power and business process optimization
Erik Rival Storelv
Associated Partner
Erik has a broad international experience from industry, energy, technology, finance and growth companies. He is educated within political science, economics and finance at NHH and has previous experience from commercial and finance in Hydro, asset management in Gjensidige and business development and startegy in Statnett. Erik has also been involved in Norwegian politics, and has high competance within commercial and strategic business development, finance and communication. Erik is currently engaged as Senior Project Consultant within Commercial and Financing in NorthConnect.