Emerson Process Management appointed Frode Sedberg as the new regional manager for Brazil within its Roxar Software Solutions Division. Sedberg, who brings eight years of reservoir engineering experience to Emerson, will build on recent growth in the region and strengthen key relationships with operators. He will be based in Emerson’s Rio de Janeiro office.

Sedberg comes to Emerson after eight years at Odin Petroleum where he held a variety of global reservoir engineering roles and production optimization projects on Statoil’s North Sea Grane and ConocoPhillips’ Troll and Huldra fields. He has a master of science in petroleum technology from the University of Trondheim.