Press release -
Christian Bekkevold Nilsen is appointed new CFO of Quantafuel
Quantafuel today announced the appointment of Christian Bekkevold Nilsen as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer. He will enter his role on October 10th, 2022.
“I am pleased to welcome Christian Bekkevold Nilsen into Quantafuel’s Group Management team. Quantafuel is moving forward into the next phase of its strategy, and I am confident that his experience from multiple companies, both in Norway and internationally, will be a valuable contribution to our team,” says Quantafuel’s CEO Lars Rosenløv.
Bekkevold Nilsen has held CFO positions in Norconsult and Nordpool. He has also been a Finance Director in the French industrial group Alstom.
“Quantafuel is becoming a frontrunner in the plastic recycling industry, and I look forward to taking part in this exciting and important journey. I hope and believe that my background and experience will contribute to further developing the company,” says Bekkevold Nilsen.
Nilsen holds a Master of Science degree in Business from Handelshøyskolen in Northern Norway and is a Norwegian citizen. He has lived and worked in Belgium, France, Japan, and Switzerland, before he and his family returned to Norway in 2010.
Bekkevold Nilsen will take over from Kristian Flaten, who will focus on the ongoing financing processes, as Quantafuel is now entering into the roll-out phase, as communicated in the first half 2022 report.
Quantafuel is a Norwegian technology-based recycling company with the purpose of ending wasteful and unsustainable handling of our planet's resources. Drawing on more than ten years of development, Quantafuel converts waste plastics back into low-carbon synthetic oil products replacing virgin oil products. Quantafuel aims to rapidly build up production capacity on a global scale and to have a meaningful impact on one of our time's most pressing environmental challenges.
