Education
After growing up in Mandal, he was educated in law and business administration.
journalist jurist Businessperson
After growing up in Mandal, he was educated in law and business administration.
He worked for a period as a journalist for Kapital before in 1992 buying a large portion of Pareto Group, where he holds an 80.1% ownership. His fortune in 2009 was estimated at NOK 5.5 billion (approximately 900 million United States dollar). He is educated from the Norwegian School of Economics where he graduated in 1983.