Christians Ager-Hanssen

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Christians Ager-Hanssen

Christians Eugen Ager-Hanssen (born 29. July 1962 ) is a Norwegian investor and former Internet - entrepreneurs .

Career

Ager-Hanssen is the son of the nuclear physicist and industrialist Henrik Ager-Hanssen.

In 1997 Ager-Hanssen founded the venture capital company Cognition based in Gothenburg , Stockholm and London . In the late 1990s he was considered the richest person in Norway by the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang . This was based on the estimate of his company by the HSBC bank prior to the planned listing in 2000 at 15 to 20 billion crowns . The IPO was canceled, however, and the subsequent bursting of the dot-com bubble brought Ager-Hanssen massive losses.

Ager-Hanssen is now a well-known stock activist and is often referred to as a controversial investor with his investment company Custos (London). In recent years he has been involved in several major acquisitions of media companies in Sweden and the UK, including the Swedish newspaper Metro. He is the largest owner of the Johnston Press group, which owns many newspapers in the UK.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Debt Burden of the Fallen Viking Hero; Knives Are out for an Internet Star as His Glamorous Tale of Success Turns into a Norse Saga (questia.com from September 2, 2001, accessed on May 12, 2018, English)
  2. ↑ Vd: n för Johnston Press avgår - Metros ägare nöjd (medievarlden.de from May 2, 2018, accessed May 12, 2018, Swedish)
  3. ↑ Christen Ager-Hanssen to increase stake in Johnston Press (thetimes.co.uk of May 6, 2018, accessed May 12, 2018, English)
  4. ↑ Norway's former dotcom wonder Christen Ager-Hanssen: 'I want to be the next Murdoch for the new age of newspapers' (telegraph.co.uk of October 28, 2017, accessed on May 12, 2018, English)
  5. ↑ Norwegian raider attacks Johnston Press board 'fee suckers' in coup attempt (telegraph.co.uk October 17, 2017, accessed May 12, 2018)
  6. ↑ Ager-Hanssen signs up Salmond to his Johnston Press dream team (alexasalmond.scot from September 2, 2017, accessed on May 12, 2018, English)
personal data
SURNAME Ager-Hanssen, Christians
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ager-Hanssen, Christen Eugen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian investor and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1962