Espen Agdestein (born 7 February 1965) is the former manager of current Chess World Champion

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 ...

(until 2021). He is the brother of chess grandmaster and former coach of Magnus Carlsen,

Simen Agdestein Simen Agdestein (born 15 May 1967) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster, chess coach, author, and former professional footballer as a striker for the Norway national football team. Agdestein won eight Norwegian Chess Championships between 1982 an ...

, and is himself a

FIDE master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating an ...

, with a FIDE rating of 2372. Espen is one of the co-founders and partners of Idekapital, the largest Venture Capital Fund in Norway. Idekapital manages over NOK 500 million and invests in Norwegian startup companies in need of growth capital. He founded Idekapital together with Anders Brandt, Rune Holen and Kristian Øvsthus. He is part owner and sits in the board of directors in

's company Play Magnus, where Anders Brandt is chairman and Kate Murphy is the CEO. Espen said that "Play Magnus is Magnus Carlsen's tool to bring chess to the world". Espen was Carlsen's manager beginning in 2009, and according to an interview in the Norwegian newspaper

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, the job as manager of Magnus Carlsen turned out to be more hectic than Agdestein first expected. He founded the magazine Art of Taste in 2001 which was later bought by Hjemmet Mortensen in 2006. Espen Agdestein worked as a director at Hjemmet Mortensen from 2006-2009. He quit his job as a director to start working as

's manager.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Agdestein, Espen Place of birth missing (living people) Norwegian chess players Living people Chess FIDE Masters 1965 births