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Gunn Wærsted (born 16 March 1955) is a

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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

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when Wærsted was six years old. She graduated with the siv.øk. degree from

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in 1979. She was hired in Andenæsgruppen as a secretary in the same year, and soon advanced to

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. She left five years later to work in the investment company

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. The company Nevi Investor was established in 1987, and later changed its name to DnB Investor. Nevi had been bought by

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which was then bought by

Den norske Bank Den norske Bank or DnB was a Norwegian bank that existed between 1990 and 2003 when it merged with Gjensidige NOR to form DnB NOR (now DNB ASA). The bank's headquarters were in Bergen, Norway. DnB was created as a merger between Bergen Bank and ...

(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 Vital Forsikring ASA, branded as Vital is Norway's largest life insurance and pension insurance company, and part of the DnB NOR Group. Though Vital has roots back to 1847, it was created in its present form by a merger between Vital and Gjen ...

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

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. She became the country senior executive in Norway in 2008. In October 2000, when the

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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

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and council member of

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and the

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. 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

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. 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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