Career
He has a siviløkonom degree, and worked in the advertisement industry during the 1980s. From 1989 to 1993, he was the chief executive of Bachelor of Science in Business Bates Group. He then became chief executive of television 2, and then chief executive of the airline Braathens from 1999 until it was taken over by Scandinavian Airlines System in 2001.
He then became chief executive of Merkantildata, later Ementor, from 2001 to 2004.