Career
The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Iceland), on the Board of Directors of Refresco Holding BV. and Teymi hf. Þorsteinn earned a Bachelor degree in Economics (Candidate Oecon) from the University of Iceland and in 1991 an Master of Arts in Economics from Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois. Þorsteinn worked as an economist for the Central Bank of Iceland for four years, followed by two years as Chief Economist for the Federation of Icelandic Industries.
In 1996, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Vífilfell hf. and in 2001 he led a buy-out of the business and currently holds a majority stake.
He was elected Executive Chairman of Vífilfell Coca-Cola in 2005.