Norwegian bankers

Tom_Ruud_(businessman)

Tom Ruud (born 1 October 1950) is a Norwegian businessman and banker.
He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1974 with the siv.ing. degree. After serving as a consultant in International Business Machines, he was hired in the bank Den norske Creditbank in 1984. Following his tenure as an executive in the Aker system, he assumed the role as CEO of the bank Kreditkassen in 1997. The bank then became a part of the multinational company Nordea. From 2001, he was Nordea's country senior executive in Norway and the corporation's leader of "Banking & Capital Market Products". In 2008 he left Nordea, whose leadership has an upper age limit of 60. Subsequently, he was appointed as a director in Umoe.He is the chair of Umoe Bioenergy and leader of the corporate council and electoral committee in Norske Skog. He was the chair of the Orkla Group from 2001 to 2002.

Rune_Bjerke

Rune Bjerke (born 17 June 1960) is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Labour Party.
Rune is son of Juul Bjerke and brother of Siri Bjerke. Bjerke studied economics at the University of Oslo, and has a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University.
From 1992 to 1995 he was city commissioner (byråd) of finance in the city cabinet of Oslo. He has previously been advisor in the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, director in Scancem International and chief executive officer in Hafslund. From 2007 to 2019 he was chief executive officer of DNB.
He is the chairman of the board of Doorstep, and of both the Norwegian Financial Services Association and Finance Norway.Bjerke is married to the Labour party politician Libe Rieber-Mohn.

Leif_Terje_Løddesøl

Leif Terje Løddesøl (24 April 1935 – 18 November 2021) was a Norwegian businessperson.
He was born in Oslo as a son of Aasulv Løddesøl (1896–1978) and Liv Marie Bjørlykke (1905–1994). He has been married twice. He graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.jur. degree in 1960, and studied further, among others at The Hague Academy of International Law and the College of Europe in Brussels. After a period as deputy judge in Hardanger District Court he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1963 to 1966 and the Norwegian Shipowners' Association from 1966 to 1969.He was then the chief executive officer of ScanAustral from 1969 to 1973, Wilh. Wilhelmsen from 1973 to 1980 and Den norske Creditbank from 1980 to 1988. The bank became embroiled in hardships during a banking crisis (see among others the Black Monday 1987), and an employee also defrauded the bank. Løddesøl was removed as chief executive in 1988, but returned to the corporate executive team in Wilh. Wilhelmsen, where he stayed until 2000. From 2000 to 2002 he was the president of the Norwegian Shipowners' Association.He was a board member of Den norske Creditbank in the 1970s and chaired the Norwegian Bankers' Association from 1982 to 1984. He chaired the Norwegian National Opera from 1996 to 2005 and Wilh. Wilhelmsen from 2000 to 2003. He chaired the corporate council of Statoil from 1996, and later the board from 2002 to 2003. He had to leave after the Iran case.He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1985.