Andreas Halvorsen

About Andreas Halvorsen

Who is it?: Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer, Viking Global Investors
Birth Year: 1960
Birth Place: Darien, Connecticut, Norway
Residence: Darien, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma mater: Williams College Stanford University
Occupation: Investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist
Known for: Founding and leading Viking Global Investors
Spouse(s): Diane Halvorsen
Children: 3

Andreas Halvorsen

Andreas Halvorsen was born on 1960 in Darien, Connecticut, Norway, is Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer, Viking Global Investors. A former Tiger Cub who once traded equities at Julian Robertson's Tiger Management hedge fund, Andreas Halvorsen launched Viking Global Investors in 1999. The firm now manages more than $30 billion in assets. The Norwegian-born Halvorsen is based in Greenwich, Connecticut. His flagship Viking Global hedge fund lost 4% net of fees in 2016. He is a graduate of Williams College and Stanford Business School.
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Biography/Timeline

1961

Halvorsen was born in Norway in 1961. He graduated from the Norwegian Naval Academy and then served as a leader of a Norwegian SEAL team.

1986

Halvorsen attended Williams College, where he was a member of the ski team, and graduated in 1986 with a degree in economics. He went on to receive his MBA from the Stanford University School of Business in 1990. At Stanford, he received the Alexander A. Robichek Student Achievement Award in Finance and was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Halvorsen is now on Williams' Board of Trustees.

1999

In 1999, Halvorsen left Tiger to co-found Viking Global Investors, an investment firm managing in excess of $30 billion capital, of which he is currently the CEO, alongside David Ott and Brian Olson. Halvorsen, Ott, and Olson are part of the group known as "Tiger Cubs," former employees of Julian Robertson's Tiger Management Corporation now working as hedge fund managers on their own. Viking Global's main operations cover public equity and hedge funds on the international market.

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