Anders Brandt, (born 24. December 1960 in Oslo) is a

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. He is the

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of Idekapital AS which is owned by him and his family. Brandt is part owner and chairman of the board in

Magnus Carlsen Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster who is the reigning five-time World Chess Champion. He is also a three-time World Rapid Chess Champion and five-time World Blitz Chess Champion. Carlsen has h ...

's company Play Magnus, and its

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and first

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. He has close ties to

Chess World Champion The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Magnus Carlsen of Norway, who has held the title since 2013. The first event recognized as a world championship was the 1886 match ...

and his team. Magnus Carlsen's manager

Espen Agdestein Espen Agdestein (born 7 February 1965) is the former manager of current Chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen (until 2021). He is the brother of chess grandmaster and former coach of Magnus Carlsen, Simen Agdestein, and is himself a FIDE master, ...

is a

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Play Magnus Group Play Magnus Group is a Norwegian chess company co-founded by chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen in 2013. The company released the mobile app ''Play Magnus (mobile app), Play Magnus'' in 2014, before merging with chess24 in 2019 and being acquired by ...

. His former colleague at Idekapital, Kate Murphy, is the

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of Play Magnus. Brandt bought his first computer in 1977 to learn to program. Brandt's first employment was as a

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. Later he became head of both an

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and a

market research company Market research is an organized effort to gather information about target markets and customers: know about them, starting with who they are. It is an important component of business strategy and a major factor in maintaining competitiveness. Mark ...

. In parallel with a career as a management consultant Brandt has founded and cofounded more than 20 companies during the last 30 years. Brandt held several speeches on the importance of user experience from 1995, and has written numerous articles on the subject. He has served as a board member in several companies, such as

SuperOffice SuperOffice is a Europe, European supplier of business-to-business customer relationship management (CRM) software. SuperOffice was founded in 1989 by Une Amundsen. He renamed the company "Superland" and refers to himself as "The King of Superla ...

EVRY EVRY A/S was a Norwegian information technology company that supplies services relating to computing, including operation, outsourcing, and online banking. The company is headquartered in Oslo. It was established through a merger between EDB Bus ...

, Viken Fiber, Brandmaster, Catena Media, Nimber, OMG, Mytos, Meshtech and others.

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