Background
He was born in Sola, and founded the construction company Stangeland Gruppen in 1959.
director of Stangeland Gruppen
He was born in Sola, and founded the construction company Stangeland Gruppen in 1959.
The company had a turnover of NOK 1.5 billion in 2008, and Stangeland himself has a fortune of NOK 402 million, about United States$70 million. He resided in Tjelta. On 17 June 2011 he was involved in a bicycle accident near the airport hotel at Stavanger Airport, Sola, and sustained a severe head trauma.
The injury claimed his life.
He died on Stavanger University Hospital in the afternoon the next day.