Lars Boilesen
Lars Boilesen | |
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| Alma mater | Aarhus School of Business |
| Occupation(s) | CEO, Otello Corporation |
Lars Rabæk Boilesen is the CEO of Otello Corporation (formerly Opera Software ASA), having succeeded founder Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner in 2010.
Career
[edit]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 (now Otello), he was the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing from 2000 to 2005.[3][4][6] Boilesen also served on the company's board of directors from 2007 to 2009. Boilesen became CEO after von Tetzchner stepped down from the position on January 5, 2010.[1][2][7][8][9]
Personal life
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b Thomas Breinstrup, "Danskledet IT-komet fordobler sin værdi", Berlingske, October 11, 2013 (in Danish)
- ^ a b Executive Profile: Lars Rabaek Boilesen, Bloomberg, retrieved November 18, 2013.
- ^ a b c Thomas Breinstrup, "Dansk dirigent til norske Opera", Berlingske, January 8, 2010 (in Danish)
- ^ a b Executives, Opera Software, retrieved November 18, 2013.
- ^ Hege Guttormsen, "Abelialederen Lars Boilesen, Opera" Archived 2015-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, Abelia, 12 May 2011 (in Norwegian)
- ^ "Opera Tunjuk Lars Boilesen Jadi CEO Baru", Techno, Okezone.com, January 7, 2010 (in Indonesian)
- ^ Opera appoints Lars Boilesen new Chief Executive Officer Archived 2011-06-23 at the Wayback Machine, 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 (in German)
- ^ Marius Jørgenrud, "Lønnsfest i Opera", Digi.no, April 24, 2013 (in Norwegian)
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