Team

The people and knowledge behind ProDecs.

A research-based company, working together since 2018 and scaling from Norway to energy companies worldwide.

Our story

From research to innovation.

ProDecs began in 2018 as a question inside a PhD at NTNU: how should an energy company decide what to build when prices, costs, and demand are genuinely uncertain? Verena Hagspiel and Semyon Fedorov have been working on the answer together ever since.

Through NTNU's BRU21 program and the Research Council of Norway, seven years of research turned that question into a working platform — and in 2024, ProDecs spun out as a company, now validated on real assets with operators like OKEA and DNO.

  1. 2018
    Research begins

    The doctoral work behind ProDecs starts at NTNU.

  2. 2021
    BRU21 & commercialization

    The method matures through NTNU's offshore-energy research program.

  3. 2024
    NTNU spin-off

    ProDecs incorporates as a company after a multi-year commercialization track.

  4. 2025
    First paid pilots

    Validated on live project data with operators OKEA and DNO.

Verena Hagspiel

Verena Hagspiel

CEO · Professor of Finance, NTNU

Verena is part of one of the world's leading research groups on investment under uncertainty — 15+ years and around 25 papers on real options. She built the science ProDecs runs on, and now leads the company and its commercialization, turning that research into a business.

  • Real options
  • Investment under uncertainty
  • Commercialization
Semyon Fedorov

Semyon Fedorov

CPO · PhD, Energy Investment Analysis

Our product lead, with a doctorate in project investment analysis for the energy sector. Semyon brings ProDecs' core know-how — real options and optimization — into the daily work of decision-makers, through the algorithms and interfaces behind the platform.

  • Real options
  • Optimization
  • Product
Alexey Pavlov

Alexey Pavlov

Advisor · Professor in Petroleum Cybernetics, NTNU

Professor at NTNU and head of BRU21, the program for better resource utilization offshore. Alexey guides ProDecs on research direction and the road from lab to industry.

  • Petroleum cybernetics
  • Research strategy
  • BRU21
Aaban Irfan

Aaban Irfan

AI Engineer

Aaban works on full-stack platform development and brings his AI expertise to the new solutions we're building — putting ProDecs in front of energy companies across Norway and beyond.

  • Full-stack
  • AI
  • Platform
Out in the field

Where you'll find us.

  • Pitch night — Startup TRD · 6AM Accelerator
    Pitch nightStartup TRD · 6AM Accelerator
  • The Scale-Ups stage — ONS, Stavanger
    The Scale-Ups stageONS, Stavanger
  • Presenting ProDecs — OG21 Forum
    Presenting ProDecsOG21 Forum
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