Christen Ager-Hanssen
| Christen Ager-Hanssen | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Christen Ager-Hanssen July 29, 1962 Halden, Norway |
| Residence | London |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Christen Eugen Ager-Hanssen (born July 29, 1962) is a Norwegian Internet Entrepreneur & Venture Capitalist and since late 90s based in London according to the press. He is a highly controversial Venture Capital & Private Equity professional. Ager-Hanssen has been involved in several high profile M&A deals and have a special taste for public hostile takeovers. In a cover story in Canadian Business, Canada´s leading Business Magazine, Ager-Hanssen was described as Gordon Gekko and a modern-day Viking. «In an age of 37, Ager-Hanssen rose from obscurity to become Norway's richest son, worth more than $2.5 billion in early 2000».
Ager-Hanssen is also known for his insight on the Internet Industry and pioneering work in the movement to commercialize the Internet in the first and second part of the 1990s, including early experiments with search engines for the internet, Internet Infrastructure such as early experiments on Satellite Internet access, legal music distribution on Internet¢¢, Internet as the new desktop, Banking and financial services offered on the Internet, e-mail advertising, contributions to the development of the banner ad, practical applications of pay-per-click advertising.
Christen Ager-Hanssen was born in Halden, Norway. He is son of Norwegian Industrialist and nuclear physicist Henrik Ager-Hanssen (1930-2004) and politician Bjørg Ager-Hanssen. He grew up in Halden, Oslo and Stavanger and later moved to Sweden where he started working for IBM and Kinnevik in Stockholm.
In the early 1980s Ager-Hanssen was employed by different blue chip computer technology companies such as Burroughs, Digital Equipment Corporation and IBM. Later in the beginning of the 90´s, Ager-Hanssen became a recognized speaker in the field of Business Process Reengineering and Legacy Information Systems impact on organisations and society.
Ager-Hanssen is a former Investment AB Kinnevik Group Executive and recognized as an Internet commercialization pioneer. Investment AB Kinnevik is an Investment Company with over 75 years of entrepreneurship and Group companies had a combined market capitalization of SEK 175bn in November 2012
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