Svein Ove Strømmen (1949 – 22 September 2010) was a Norwegian businessperson. He took his engineer education in the United States, and worked in the Norwegian petroleum industry from 1981 to 1986. He then turned to entrepreneurship and investment. Together with

Bjarne Berg Bjarne Berg (6 June 1950 – 9 May 2010) was a Norwegian swimmer, journalist and businessperson. He is best known as news editor of TV 2 and from the companies Vizrt and Hardball. Career He grew up in Fana as a son of Christian journalist Arthur ...

he was a pioneer in the investment company

Hardball Hardball, in English, more specifically American English, generally refers to baseball (as opposed to its variant softball), especially when played very competitively. Metaphorically, it refers to uncompromising and ruthless methods or dealings, ...

, which has invested in player transfers for the

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club

SK Brann Sportsklubben Brann (commonly known as Brann, and less often as SK Brann) is a Norwegian professional football club, founded 26 September 1908, from Bergen. Brann had been in the Eliteserien, Norway's Premier Division of Football, since 1987, bar ...

. Through another investment company Isinvest, Strømmen was the largest stock holder in Hardball. Hardball strongly contributed to Brann's victorious season in 2007. He was a member of SK Brann since the 1960s. At the time of his death he was the chairman of

Vizrt Vizrt (), short for ''Visualization in Real-Time'' or ''Visual Artist'', is a Norwegian company that creates content production, management, and distribution tools for the digital media industry. Its products include applications that create r ...

, a position he had held since 2004. Since 2000 he was one of the main architects behind the growth of Vizrt, again together with Bjarne Berg. Strømmen was also chairman of Vemtro and

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. He died in September 2010.

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1949 births 2010 deaths Norwegian businesspeople Norwegian expatriates in the United States {{Norway-business-bio-stub