Lars Boilesen
Lars Rabæk Boilesen is the CEO of Opera Software, having succeeded founder Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner in 2010.
Boilesen is Danish;[1] he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Business Economics from Aarhus School of Business and a postgraduate diploma from Kolding Business School,[2] and moved to Norway in 1997.[3] His first position was at the Lego Group,[4] where in the early 1990s he developed the market in Russia;[5] He then worked at Tandberg as head of marketing for the Northern Europe and Asia-Pacific regions, Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Sales Director, and at Alcatel-Lucent as CEO for the Nordic and Baltic countries beginning in 2005. At Opera he was previously Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing from 2000 to 2005;[3][4][6] he had also served on the company's board of directors from 2007 to 2009 before succeeding von Tetzchner as CEO after the latter stepped down on January 5, 2010.[1][2][7][8][9]
Boilesen is married to a Norwegian and has three children (2010).[3] In 2013 he was one of the best paid executives in Norway.[10]
References
- 1 2 Thomas Breinstrup, "Danskledet IT-komet fordobler sin værdi", Berlingske, October 11, 2013 (Danish)
- 1 2 Executive Profile: Lars Rabaek Boilesen, Bloomberg Businessweek, retrieved November 18, 2013.
- 1 2 3 Thomas Breinstrup, "Dansk dirigent til norske Opera", Berlingske, January 8, 2010 (Danish)
- 1 2 Executives, Opera Software, retrieved November 18, 2013.
- ↑ Hege Guttormsen, "Abelialederen Lars Boilesen, Opera", Abelia, 12 May 2011 (Norwegian)
- ↑ "Opera Tunjuk Lars Boilesen Jadi CEO Baru", Techno, Okezone.com, January 7, 2010 (Indonesian)
- ↑ Opera appoints Lars Boilesen new Chief Executive Officer, Press release, Opera Software, January 5, 2010.
- ↑ Stephen Shankland, "Opera browser company gets new CEO", CNET, January 5, 2010.
- ↑ "Opera-Chef Tetzchner tritt ab", Die Welt, January 6, 2010 (German)
- ↑ Marius Jørgenrud, "Lønnsfest i Opera", Digi.no, April 24, 2013 (Norwegian)