Jan William Denstad
CEO and Founding Partner
Sole Projects Ltd.
Jan William Denstad founded Sole Shipping in 2004.
During his experience of over 30 years in the shipping sector, Mr. Denstad has gained significant experience in arranging sale and lease back transactions as well as previous experience of ship financing with a large dedicated European shipping bank across a wide geography.
He worked for Nedship Bank, Bergen, Norway, for a couple of years before he was asked to move to Piraeus, Greece in 1995. During this period, he was Senior Account Manager and was responsible for developing his own loan portfolio in Greece. He also contributed to a team involved in work out loans. He subsequently moved to London with Nedship Bank where his responsibilities included developing the loan portfolio, corporate and structured finance services. In 2000, Nedship bank was acquired by DVB Bank and Mr. Denstad became Head of Shipping as well as Joint Deputy General Partner of the London Branch of DVB Bank AG. In 2002 he became responsible for the European market for Navigation Finance Corporation, a shipping equity fund specialising in purchase and lease back transactions.
Being the CEO of Sole Projects Ltd, Mr. Denstad is involved in doing new transactions, fundraising and managing the Sole Shipping group..
Mr. Denstad holds an MSc in Economics and Business Management from the University of Copenhagen, and is Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Nordisk Defence Club in Oslo.
He has been a Partner of Sole Shipping Group since 2004 .
Sole Shipping Group has over the last 20 years concluded sale and lease back transactions of close to 70 vessels with an aggregate value of approx. USD 1,7 billion. The fleet is a mix of product, crude, gas, chemical and bitumen tankers, heavy lift vessels, offshore support vessels, transhipment bulkers as well as conventional bulkers. Please visit www.soleshipping.com
Mr. Denstad has relocated to live in Cyprus as from January 2026.
