Lars Egil De Lange Kobberstad (born 1962) is a Norwegian businessperson, known as the CEO of Widerøe. He grew up in

Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...

and took his upper secondary education at Dønski. He took his economics education at the University of Augsburg as well as management education at the International Institute for Management Development. He was hired in Widerøe in 1993, was promoted from

chief financial officer The chief financial officer (CFO) is an officer of a company or organization that is assigned the primary responsibility for managing the company's finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financ ...

to vice president in 2002, and became chief executive officer on 1 August 2008. He succeeded Per Arne Watle.

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