Thomas Borgen | |
Birth Name: | Thomas F. Borgen |
Birth Date: | 27 March 1964 |
Birth Place: | Sarpsborg, Norway |
Education: | Heriot-Watt University Syracuse University |
Occupation: | Banker |
Former CEO, Danske Bank | |
Term: | 2013-2018 |
Predecessor: | Eivind Kolding |
Successor: | Chris Vogelzang |
Thomas F. Borgen (born 27 March 1964) is a Norwegian banker, and was CEO of Danske Bank until he resigned in September 2018 over a money-laundering scandal.[1]
As of Q3 2022, he is in court (in Lyngby), because he has been sued for Danish kroner 2.5 billion; the litigants include current and former owners of stocks[2] - owners such as the Oil Fund (Norway).[3]
Thomas Borgen was born on 27 March 1964 in Sarpsborg, Norway.[4] [5] In 1987, he earned a BA in Business Organisation from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, followed by an MBA in 1989 from Syracuse University in New York.[4] [5]
Borgen joined Danske Bank in 1997.[4]
In September 2013, Borgen replaced Eivind Kolding as CEO of Danske Bank.[4]
On 19 September 2018, Borgen resigned as CEO of Danske Bank.[1] [6]