The ProCorp team comprises 11 professionals with extensive experience from both industrial and financial sectors.

Senior Partners

• Bernt Stilluf Karlsen
• Pål Raaum
• Rolf Karsten Smith
• Erlend Grimstad (Managing Partner)

Stilluf has a long and varied career background from central positions in government, industry and investment banking with a particular focus on the energy sector.

Stilluf joined ProCorp in 1999 following top management positions as CEO of Maritime Group (later Aker Maritime), CEO of Vard (later NCL) and corporate finance partner in the Norwegian investment firm of Fondsfinans.

Pål has extensive experience from senior management positions in the financial services sector including investment banking (Carnegie) and mortgage institutions (Realkreditt). Subsequently, he has been responsible for a venture capital portfolio and managing businesses in traditional manufacturing industries in Norway and in the IT sector internationally. Pål joined ProCorp in 2003 and focuses on real estate and Asian private equity.

Rolf Karsten has extensive international experience having lived and worked in the UK from 1985 to 2003. His career has been in the corporate finance sector for a range of international investment banks in London where he worked with a focus on the Nordic region, Western and Central Europe and the Middle East. Rolf Karsten joined ProCorp in 2003 after having spent three years with Nordea Securities in London and Oslo. Rolf Karsten deals with a variety of industrial transactions but with a primary focus on real estate and private equity.

Erlend joined as Managing Partner in 2011.

He has extensive experience from industry and politics both in Norway and internationally. Erlend has previously been the CEO of Intex Resources ASA (listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange), Executive Vice President of the Umoe Group, Deputy Minister of Petroleum and Energy and Attorney at Law with de Besche, a law firm.

Erlend has served on the Board of Directors' of several listed companies such as Bergen Group ASA, Unitor ASA and Kverneland ASA. He has also been a member of the corporate assembly of Statoil ASA as well as the Chairman of the Sunnaas Hospital. Erlend has worked as political advisor in the Norwegian Parliament and was elected as deputy member in the Norwegian Parliament for the period 1989 - 1997.