Norwegian business biography stubs

Knut_Kloster

Knut Utstein Kloster (2 April 1929 – 20 September 2020) was a Norwegian shipping magnate.
His grandfather Lauritz Kloster founded Kloster Rederi in 1924. In 1959 Kloster joined the family business and transformed it into a leading cruise line.
Together with Ted Arison he founded Norwegian Caribbean Line in 1966.

Lars_Monrad-Krohn

Lars Monrad-Krohn (born July 14, 1933) is a Norwegian engineer and entrepreneur.He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Institute for Radio Technology, (NTH, Institutt for Radioteknikk) in 1959. His master thesis addressed construction of computer core memory and was the first computer-oriented thesis handed in at NTH. As an entrepreneur, Monrad-Krohn established Norsk Data AS in 1967 (CEO 1967-1972), established A/S Mycron in 1975 (CEO 1975-1982), and established Tiki-Data in 1984 (CEO 1984-1996). He currently teaches entrepreneurship at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.
He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.

Ralph_Mollatt

Ralph Mollatt (28 March 1926 – 5 August 1983) was a Norwegian businessperson.
He was born in Oslo, and studied in Syracuse, New York and Grenoble. He worked in the family company M. Peterson & Søn, and was CEO from 1963 to 1980. His younger brother Erik was later CEO from 1983 to 2002.For his work, Ralph Mollatt was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.

Hans_Høegh

Hans Høegh (1 September 1926 – 31 October 2010) was a Norwegian businessman and organizational leader.
Høegh was President of the Norwegian Red Cross from 1975 to 1981. Thereafter he was General Secretary of the League of Red Cross Societies in Geneve. From 1988 to 1993 was Høegh Assistant Secretary General in the United Nations. He served as Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for the Promotion of the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons between 1988 and 1993.

Harald_Throne-Holst

Harald Throne-Holst (7 December 1905 – 8 December 1986) was a Norwegian industrial leader and a chemical engineer. He was managing director and later chairman of the Freia chocolate factory, and served as President of the Federation of Norwegian Industries and as chairman of Foreningen Norden.

Tor_Tank-Nielsen

Tor Tank-Nielsen (9 July 1918 – 8 March 2010) was a Norwegian businessperson.He was born in Kristiania. He studied chemical engineering and graduated in 1940. In 1941 he was hired in the company M. Peterson & Søn, and after a series of promotions he became CEO in 1981.He is one of two honorary members in the Industrial Association of the city of Moss, the other one being Erik Mollatt.

Petter_C._G._Sundt

Petter Christian Grüner Sundt (9 April 1945 – 28 November 2007) was a Norwegian shipping magnate and businessman.
Together with his cousin Morten Sig. Bergesen, in 1976 he took over the leadership of the company Bergesen d.y. after his grandfather Sigval Bergesen the Younger retired for health reasons. As a result of that, other members of the family wanted to sell their shares in the company. Ten years later Morten Bergesen and Petter Sundt took over ownership control and listed the company. They controlled the company until they sold it to the Sohmen-Pao family in 2003. Sundt received two billion kr (approximately US$368 million) for his shares in Bergesen d.y.
In 1983 he was decorated as a Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland, together with Brynjulf and Morits Skaugen and Gjert and Arne Wilhelmsen.Sundt died of cancer in November 2007.

Jens_Henrik_Nordlie

Jens Henrik Nordlie (18 January 1910 – 2 April 1996) was a Norwegian military officer, resistance fighter from World War II and businessperson. He participated in the Norwegian Campaign in 1940, and was a member of Milorg's leadership in 1941. He worked for the Norwegian High Command in London from 1943, leading one of the two sections of department 4 (FO IV). He contributed to the post-war investigation committee, Undersøkelseskommisjonen av 1945, where he wrote the appendix on the fighting in Norway in spring 1940. He was operative leader of the clandestine Stay behind in Norway. He was CEO of the company Narvesen from 1957 to 1975, and a co-founder of the organization Fritt Ord.

Karl_Glad

Karl Glad (born 26 September 1937) is a Norwegian jurist and industrialist. He was born in Oslo. He served as manager of Akergruppen from 1980 to 1987, and CEO of Aker AS from 1989 to 1991. He was manager of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise from 1991 to 1999.