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About Gunn Wærsted
- Gunn Wærsted (born 16 March 1955) is a Norwegian businessperson, with prominent positions in finance and banking. She was born in Vråliosen as a daughter of power plant manager Atle W.
- Wærsted and Ester Helgerud (1920–).
- The family moved to Drammen when Wærsted was six years old.
- She graduated with the siv.øk.
- degree from BI Norwegian Business School in 1979.
- She was hired in Andenæsgruppen as a secretary in the same year, and soon advanced to chief financial officer.
- She left five years later to work in the investment company Nevi in Fyllingsdalen.
- The company Nevi Investor was established in 1987, and later changed its name to DnB Investor.
- Nevi had been bought by Bergen Bank which was then bought by Den norske Bank (DnB).
- Wærsted was a director in Den norske Bank from 1993 to 1995.
- Den norske Bank then bought Vital, and from 1996 to 2001 Wærsted was the CEO of Vital Forsikring and of DnB Holdning.
- In 2001 she was headhunted as CEO of Sparebank 1 Gruppen.
- In 2007 she resigned in Sparebank 1 Gruppen, and one month later she was hired in the Group Executive Management of multinational company Nordea.
- She became the country senior executive in Norway in 2008.In October 2000, when the Norwegian State Railways had been rocked by turmoil for a while, Wærsted was installed as deputy chair in the board.
- She left in June 2001.
- When she left the DnB system later in 2001 she was the chair of DnB Kapitalforvaltning, DnB Investor, Fondsforsikringsselskapet Vital Link and Vital Skade.
- She was also a board member of BI Norwegian Business School and Doorstep, and is a corporate council member of Orkla Group and council member of Det Norske Veritas and the Norwegian Banks' Guarantee Fund.
- From 2005 to 2007 she chaired the Norwegian Financial Services Association.
- She is now a board member of both the Norwegian Financial Services Association and Finance Norway.
- Her tenure as chairman of the board at Telenor ASA has been characterized by a bitter personality conflict with the CEO, Sigve Brekke.
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