Edmund Lunde
coo + co-founder
Edmund Lunde is the chief operating officer of Arion Blue LLC and is one of the co-founders of the company. From the very beginning, his breadth of leadership experience through several industry cycles has rooted Arion with a balance between long-term strategy and a pragmatic action-biased approach to the day-to-day operations.
Over the years, Edmund has held leadership roles where he managed up to $1.2b revenue with more than 7,000 global staff in 10 countries. After joining Alliance Engineering in 1995, Edmund established the Onshore business line while he held the COO position there. He was CEO of Alliance when Mustang Engineering and Alliance Engineering merged in 2010.
Edmund’s career started in the Royal Norwegian Air Force, and he spent his early years working inside international oil and gas companies with Norway as his home base. Eventually, he took an assignment in Houston, and settled in the city permanently.
In addition to Edmund’s technical college degree in electronics and instrumentation as well as Officer School at the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy, he holds a BA in Business Administration, an Oil & Gas Mini MBA from the CWC School for Energy, and is an AMP Graduate of INSEAD.
Edmund’s background includes leading corporate, business unit and project management departments as well as business development, strategy, and mergers & acquisitions. He maintains many industry affiliations, including American Academy of Project Management, the Project Management Institute, American Management Association, Professional Institute of Pipeline Engineers among others. In 2021, Edmund joined the Board of Directors for the Rice Global E&C Forum.