Richard Jansen

Richard Jansen is an Oslo-based investment professional with roughly 27 years of experience in financial markets as both a fund manager and a sell-side analyst, covering a wide range of sectors, industries and geographies. He holds an MPhil in European Studies from the University of Cambridge (1992–1993). His investing career has centered on the international maritime industries — shipping and offshore oil services — where he handled the full life cycle of fund and asset work: establishing and capitalizing funds, fund restructuring, asset and company transactions, global asset investments, corporate restructurings, corporate financing and refinancing, directorships, investor reporting and portfolio management.

From 2010 to 2021 he was a Partner and Head of Maritime Investments (with ESG responsibility) at Pareto Alternative Investments AS (PAI), the alternative-asset arm of Norway's Pareto Group. In that role he managed maritime-focused funds and vehicles — including the Pareto Maritime Secondary Opportunity Fund AS and Pareto's shipping/offshore fund structures (e.g., Pareto World Wide Shipping) — and sat on the boards of the underlying single-purpose companies in which those funds were invested. During 2020–2021 he additionally served as PAI's temporary Head of Compliance and Risk.

In his later Pareto years he took on the firm's ESG agenda, becoming responsible for designing and implementing the ESG strategy across PAI's activities: preparing climate-change scenarios and measures, meeting reporting obligations under Norwegian and EU regulation, and structuring sustainability-linked investment mandates.

Since 2022, Jansen has been a Partner and Senior Advisor for ESG/sustainability at Capient AS, an Oslo capital-markets advisory and professional-services firm (founded 2005) that supports listed and private growth companies in the Nordics, Europe and the Americas. His earlier career also includes roles at Crux Advisers AS and Link Retail.

• Invests at the fund and asset level in maritime industries — shipping and offshore oil services — rather than in early-stage venture/angel deals, despite the "Angel / Seed" tags in the source record.
• Specializes in secondaries, restructurings and recapitalizations: acquiring and repositioning distressed or illiquid maritime assets and fund interests (e.g., via the Pareto Maritime Secondary Opportunity Fund).
• Takes an operator/board-level approach — directorships in the SPVs and vessel-owning companies held by the funds, with hands-on involvement in financing, refinancing and asset transactions.
• Strong ESG / sustainability lens: designing sustainability-linked investment mandates and climate-scenario analysis, aligned with Norwegian and EU disclosure regulation — now his primary professional focus at Capient.