| Andreas Halvorsen | |
| Birth Place: | Borge, Norway |
| Alma Mater: | Williams College Stanford University |
| Occupation: | hedge fund manager |
| Known For: | Founder and CEO, Viking Global Investors |
| Spouse: | Diane Halvorsen |
| Children: | 3 |
Ole Andreas Halvorsen (born 1961) is a Norwegian billionaire hedge fund manager. He is the CEO and a co-founder of the Connecticut-based hedge fund Viking Global Investors.[1] Viking had $24 billion under management as of October, 2017.[2] Halvorsen has consistently ranked among the top earning hedge fund managers, placing 11th in Forbes' 2012 rankings and 9th in 2015, according to Institutional Investor's Alpha.[3] [4] [5]
Halvorsen is a protégé of hedge fund manager Julian Robertson.[6] As of August 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$6.6 billion.[7]
Halvorsen was born in Borge, Norway in 1961.[8] He graduated from the Norwegian Naval Academy and then served as a leader of a Norwegian SEAL team.[1]
Halvorsen attended Williams College, where he was a member of the ski team, and graduated in 1986 with a degree in economics. He went on to receive his MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1990.[1] [9] At Stanford, he received the Alexander A. Robichek Student Achievement Award in Finance and was an Arjay Miller Scholar.[10] Halvorsen is now on Williams' Board of Trustees.[11]
Halvorsen worked in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley after finishing his studies. Then he moved to Tiger Management Corp, where he was a senior managing director, as well as an analyst and director of equities, and a member of the management committee. He sat on Tiger's advisory board, and on the supervisory board of the firm's largest fund, Jaguar Fund N.V..[12]
In 1999, Halvorsen left Tiger to co-found Viking Global Investors, an investment firm managing capital in excess of $30 billion, of which he is currently the CEO, alongside David Ott and Brian Olson.[13] [14] Halvorsen, Ott, and Olson are part of the group known as "Tiger Cubs," former employees of Julian Robertson's Tiger Management Corporation now working as hedge fund managers on their own.[15] Viking Global's main operations cover public equity and hedge funds on the international market.[16]
He is married to Diane Halvorsen; they have three children and live in Darien, Connecticut.[17]
Halvorsen is on the board of trustees of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and the board of Williams College.
Previously, Halvorsen has been a trustee of Greenwich Academy, a board member of Right To Play USA, and sat on the advisory council of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.[18]