1. Christen Eugen Ager-Hanssen was born on July 29,1962 and is a Norwegian internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
46 Facts About Christen Ager-Hanssen
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Christen Ager-Hanssen invests in various companies through his investment vehicle, Custos.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen grew up in Halden, Oslo, and Stavanger before he moved to Sweden where he worked for IBM and Kinnevik in Stockholm.
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Knudsen told the court that Christen Ager-Hanssen had threatened him via text message that he would release the recordings if Knudson did not acquiesce to his demands.
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In 2014, Christen Ager-Hanssen told Dagens Nyheter he had "rigged a hidden recording device" at his home during a meeting with HQ Bank chairman Christer Sandberg.
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In 2016, Christen Ager-Hanssen covertly recorded the filmmaker Fredrik von Krusenstjerna who was reportedly making a documentary about HQ Bank.
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In 2022, Christen Ager-Hanssen covertly recorded the lawyer Kyle Roche at his office in London, after paying for tickets for Roche and his wife to fly over.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen initially denied being behind the sting, and made threats towards Kyle Roche over the claim, but confessed in a 2023 Norwegian interview.
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In 2023, Christen Ager-Hanssen published covert recordings he had made of nChain chairman Stefan Matthews.
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On January 2,2024, Christen Ager-Hanssen was sued by Zhanna Shamalova, the ex-wife of Kirill Shamalov.
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Shamalova claims Christen Ager-Hanssen agreed to return the money to her in February 2023, but did not do so.
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In March 2025, Christen Ager-Hanssen was reported to the Swedish police by Norion Bank who accused him blackmail and extortion.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen was a senior executive in the Kinnevik group with regards to Tele2 AB and its international expansion.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen founded several internet startups together with Investment AB Kinnevik, including Netsys Technology Group, Webware and Polarsearch, one of the first search engines in Scandinavia.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen has been an active investor on the Swedish stock exchange who invested in many blue chip companies.
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In 2019, Christen Ager-Hanssen founded Addreax, a 'MarTech' company.
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In December 2023, Christen Ager-Hanssen announced a partnership between Addreax and Corriere dello Sport.
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In March 2024, Christen Ager-Hanssen became embroiled in a controversy involving social media influencers Matilda Djerf and Hanna Schonberg.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen told journalists he had been reporting them both to the Swedish Consumer Agency via the Addreax owned Metro Mode, as well as leaving comments under their social media posts relating to their declarations to the Swedish Tax Agency.
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In November 2022, Christen Ager-Hanssen was appointed as the CEO of nChain group.
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On September 29,2023, Christen Ager-Hanssen claimed to have resigned due to disagreements with the company's board.
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On May 3,2024, Christen Ager-Hanssen was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for failing to comply with court orders.
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Justice Jacobs outlined the timeline of events leading up to the committal, detailing how Christen Ager-Hanssen was ordered to surrender data he had taken from nChain's to an independent forensic examiner and disclose whom he had shared copies with.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen withdrew from the hearings and did not comply with further orders.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen tweeted on May 25,2024, that he had filed an appeal against the judgement.
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In early 1998, Christen Ager-Hanssen made a bid for NetSys Technology Group, including Webware and Polarsearch, together with the National Pension Fund of Sweden.
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In June 1998, Christen Ager-Hanssen made a successful hostile cash bid on the publicly-traded company Verimation AB for SEK 120 million.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen thereafter delisted the company and integrated the business into the joint venture with the Pension Fund.
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Just before the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, Christen Ager-Hanssen chose to divest his shares in the joint venture with the Pension Fund.
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In 1998, Christen Ager-Hanssen founded a venture capital company called Cognition where he organized most of his Internet-related investment.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen employed several high-profile individuals, such as Ulf Sundqvist, former trade minister in Finland, and Gillian Nott, a former financial service authority director.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen appointed Ron Sandler as the non-executive chairman who was the former Lloyd's of London chief executive and a former NatWest executive.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen did not float and went bankrupt shortly thereafter.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen was taken to court by Korsgaard over the money.
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In many articles in Scandinavia, the US, and the UK, Christen Ager-Hanssen was portrayed as a visible symbol for the bubble.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen had interests in music, fashion, recruitment, health, esports, and loyalty programs.
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At the time of the acquisition, Christen Ager-Hanssen was quoted, saying: "All of Metro's business culture is based on surprising the market and doing business that shake up the industry, this fits perfectly with our ambitions in the media sector".
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Christen Ager-Hanssen told Dagens Media that Metro would relaunch as a platform for people to pay to publish opinion and debate posts.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen attempted a corporate restructuring, which was initially approved by the Stockholm District Court the company's largest creditor, the Swedish Tax Agency, had the order overturned.
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In October 2017, Christen Ager-Hanssen publicly announced his intention to overhaul Johnston Press's board, nominating Alex Salmond, former First Minister of Scotland, as the company's potential chairman.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen's strategy was predicated on radically changing Johnston Press's business model, focusing on the digital media and leveraging the company's audience to help kickstart new ventures.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen criticised the sale process and declared he would initiate legal actions against the new owners.
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In 2007 Porter and Christen Ager-Hanssen's GSS signed a five-year contract with British Airways, which at the time was described as the largest-ever freighter investment made by BA with total operating costs of over USD 1 billion.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen later sold his share in Glocalnet to Inter-Ikea.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen invested in 2005 together with Porter in Nordic Oil.
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Christen Ager-Hanssen was chaired by the founder and former CEO of Statoil, Arve Johnsen.