Jan Naess is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Transportation Strategy at Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd.
Most recently, he was a Norwegian representative and Advisor to Northern Shipping Fund Management LLC until the firm was acquired by Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. in 2022. He is the owner and founder of Naess Management AS (NMAS). From 1983 to 1987 Mr. Naess was employed as an analyst in R.S. Platou Economic Research AS (Clarksons Platou AS) and subsequently founded R.S. Platou Asset Management AS, which was sold to R.S. Platou AS. In 1989 he founded PAN Shipping AS, which merged with Northern Navigation International Ltd in 1991 at which time Mr. Naess became a senior partner and Director of NNI. In 1994, NNI established its first fund management business, The Navigation Fund Ltd. A second Fund structure was established in 1998, The Navigation Finance Corporation Ltd. which was a joint venture with Nedship Bank (later DVB Bank).
Mr. Naess is currently Chairman of Naess Management AS, Naess International AS and Compass Capital AS. Further he is a Director of Klaveness Marine Holding AS, Northern Shipping Funds I and II, and several other single purpose shipping and investment companies. Through NMAS he is an advisor to Dorian LPG LTD and Ness, Risan & Partners AS.
Mr. Naess holds an MA in Economics (Cand. Oecon) from the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway.