Norwegian chief executives

Anne Carine Tanum (born 27 November 1954) is a Norwegian business executive. She is the former owner and managing director of the Tanum chain of bookstores in the Oslo area which was sold to Egmont in 2006. The current chair of DNB and Litteraturhuset (Oslo's House of Literature), in May 2015 she was appointed chair of the board of directors of the Norwegian Opera.Earlier responsibilities have included board chairman of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and director of the Vital Forsikring life insurance company. As of September 2015, she is a director of Europris, Kilden, E-Co Energi Holding, E-CO Energi, Oslo Universitetssykehus, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Cappelen Damm Holding, Ancata and the International Research Institute of Stavanger.Anne Carine Tanum is the granddaughter of Johan Grundt Tanum (1891–1978), an important figure in the Norwegian publishing sphere. She holds a law degree from the University of Oslo. In 2011, she was named Norway's Female Chair of the Year for her skills in the boardroom at DnB (Den Norske Bank).

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.

Åge Korsvold (born 8 April 1946) is a Norwegian businessperson and since 2006 chief executive officer of Kistefos.
He was born in Oslo. He is educated in business administration from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He started working for Storebrand in 1972 before becoming chief financial officer in Golden West Shipping Co. in 1976 and then in Orkla Industrier in 1977. From 1983 to 1992 Korsvold was consultant in Fondsfinans, and from 1992 to 1994 CEO of Procorp. In 1994 he became CEO in UNI Storebrand.He played a central role under the failed merger negotiations between UNI Storebrand and Kredittkassen in 1997 and was also central in the acquisition plans for the Swedish-Finninsh MeritaNordbanken in the fall of 1999. In 2000 he was forced to resign, and was later reported by the Norwegian National Authority for the Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime for illegal option trade.He was chairman of the board of the Orkla Group briefly in 2000, as he was elected by the corporate council in September, but resigned after leaving Storebrand. He started as CEO of Kistefos in 2001. From 2003 he is also chairman of Ementor.

Christian Ringnes (born 3 March 1954) is a Norwegian businessman and art collector whose family founded Norway’s now largest brewery Ringnes in 1876. In his hometown of Oslo, Ringnes owns restaurants, hotels and museums, and recently donated more than $70 million for the creation of a large sculpture and cultural park, which opened in 2013. The Wall Street Journal ranks it as one of the top five parks in the world. Over decades Ringnes has built one of the largest private collections of art in the world.Ringnes holds an MBA from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and an MBA from Harvard Business School in the United States. He has been an active real estate investor since 1984, and is currently the largest shareholder and CEO of real estate companies Eiendomsspar and Victoria Eiendom.
In 2001 he bought the dilapidated Ekeberg Restaurant in Oslo, not far from the place where Edvard Munch painted The Scream. He renovated it and opened the restaurant in 2005. He has also given Oslo the sculptures Peacock Fountain at the National Theatre station and Kate Moss at the Opera Passage. The Marketing Association in Oslo appointed Ringnes to "Oslo Ambassador " for his efforts to promote Oslo as a city and destination. In 2005 he was awarded the honorary award "City Patriot " by Oslo. In 2013 he was voted "citizen of the year " by the readers of Norway's largest media outlet Aftenposten.
At the age of seven, Ringnes developed a hobby after he received an unusual gift from his father: a half-empty Gordon's Gin miniature liquor bottle. It was this afterthought of a gift that led him on a path towards amassing what is recognized today as the largest mini-bottle collection in the world with over 52,000 miniature liquor bottles commissioned to a three-story museum in Oslo.