HAV Group: New managing director of ship design business

29 Sep 2025 12:00 CEST

29 September 2025 – HAV Group’s ship design business, HAV Design, has appointed
Richard Schofield as its new managing director.

Schofield has 20 years’ management experience from maritime industries. He has
held leadership roles at maritime suppliers Kongsberg Evotec and Vard Electro,
at aquaculture industry supplier Optimar, and at ship designer Ulstein Design &
Solutions. Schofield started his career at defence industry supplier BAE
Systems.

Schofield is a British national who has lived in the maritime-focused Sunnmøre
region of Norway for the past 15 years. He joins HAV Group’s ship design
business from a role as head of industrial competitiveness at cross-industrial
cluster organisation NCE iKuben. He holds an engineering degree in product
development and manufacturing from Loughborough University, UK.

“Richard brings extensive experience from the maritime industry, from ship
design, engineering, project management, operations and technology development.
He has supported customers on projects in multiple vessel segments where we have
a strong market position. We look forward to welcoming him to the company,” says
Gunnar Larsen, CEO of HAV Group and chairman of HAV Design.

Schofield will join HAV Design latest 1 January 2026. He succeeds Stig Magne
Espeseth, who has moved into a role as SVP Design at the company.

(ENDS)

For further information, please contact:
Gunnar Larsen, CEO
gunnar.larsen@havgroup.no
+47 901 05 694

About HAV Group | www.havgroup.no
HAV Group and its subsidiaries (together: “HAV Group”) is an international
provider of technology and services for maritime and marine industries. HAV
Group has several decades of industry experience, in addition to special
expertise in guiding the marine and maritime industries through the green shift
and towards the goal of zero emissions. HAV Group ASA is listed on Euronext
Growth under the ticker code HAV.

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