Michael Foster

MICHAEL FOSTER is Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer
of Kvaerner Metals. Mr. Foster was born in 1953. He read Engineering at
Peterhouse College, Cambridge and went on to qualify as a lawyer and was
called to the Bar in 1977. Mr. Foster practiced at the Bar until 1985,
when he joined GKN (the multi-national engineering group), where he
spent 9 years in senior roles. In 1994, he joined Trafalgar House as the
Senior Finance Executive responsible for commercial and strategic
evaluation of the company’s major contracts particularly within the
Engineering business. Mr. Foster was appointed Chief Executive Officer
of Davy International, part of Trafalgar House Group, in 1995, which was
taken over by Kvaerner ASA in May of the following year. He is a member
of the Association of Corporate Treasurers and has been on the Editorial
Committee for the official journal of the association. Mr. Foster is
married with 2 children. His interests include fine arts, music and 19th
and 20th century English Literature.