Opera

Rolf Assev

Chief Strategy Officer

Assev worked four years for the Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee in the Marketing Department where he was responsible for developing and negotiating the international and national sponsor contracts. He then joined Scandinavia's leading PR-company, Geelmuyden.Kiese, where he worked four years as a senior consultant responsible for the IT-sector, primarily as Key Account Manager for Microsoft.

Assev holds a master's degree from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.

Rolf Assev holds 430,518 shares in Opera Software and with family owns 100% of shares in the investment company Bjørnvold Invest that owns 574,000 shares in the company. Assev holds 320,000 stock options.

Rikard Gillemyr

VP Engineering

Rikard Gillemyr began his affiliation with Opera Software in 1998, when he and the other co-founders of Hern Labs in Sweden ported Opera 3 to BeOS.

After officially joining Opera Software in 2000, Gillemyr has been responsible for many of Opera's major deliveries, including Opera on BREW and the Opera for Devices SDK. Gillemyr previously served as the country manager of Opera's offices in Poland and Korea before his appointment to Vice President of Engineering.

He was educated at the Linköping Institute of Technology where he studied Computer Science and Engineering until 1999.

Gillemyr holds 360,000 shares and 330,000 options in the company.

Erik C. Harrell

COO/CFO - Chief Operating Officer / Chief Financial Officer

Prior to joining Opera, Harrell was CFO of the European operations for Advent Software, a NASDAQ-listed software company based in San Francisco, California, USA. Harrell's professional experience includes six years at JP Morgan & Co. in New York, where he was Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions, a stint in Intel Capital, and the role of Founder and CEO of an early-stage internet software company.

Harrell has an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School and holds an MA and BA (Phi Beta Kappa) from The Johns Hopkins University.

Harrell holds 60,000 shares and 560,000 options in the company.

Dag Honningsvåg

Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing

As Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, B2B, Dag Honningsvåg oversees global sales and marketing efforts. He is responsible for driving Opera sales in all industry segments and major accounts around the world. Honningsvåg has previously spent 24 years in the IT and telecom business, including time with Telenor and Computer Associates. Most recently, he served as Country Manager and Managing Director for Computer Associates in Norway, a position he had held since 2003.

Honningsvåg holds 7,500 shares and 400,000 stock options in the company.

Christen Krogh

Chief Development Officer

Before joining Opera, Christen Krogh worked as research director at SINTEF Telecom and Informatics, and as business developer at TV 2 Interactive. His previous work experience includes assignments as research scientist at various research institutes, as well as the position as adviser and group leader.

Krogh holds an interdisciplinary doctorate degree from the University of Oslo, and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Glasgow University.

Krogh holds 540,000 options and 14,225 shares in Opera Software ASA.

Håkon Wium Lie

CTO - Chief Technology Officer

Håkon Wium Lie joined Opera in 1999 as the Chief Technology Officer. Prior to his position at Opera, Wium Lie worked for W3C, where he proposed the concept of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). He is a knowledgeable speaker on languages for the Web, as well as the past, present and future of the Web. Prior speaking engagements include XTech, International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2), Atypi and Seybold. Wium Lie has also written for The Register, CNET and A List Apart.

After receiving his Master's degree from MIT Media Lab, Wium Lie worked as a research scientist at Norwegian Telecom Research and later at CERN, the birthplace of the Web. From 1995 to 1999, Wium Lie worked for W3C, after which he joined Opera. He has also received a PhD degree from the University of Oslo in 2006.

In 1999, Technology Review included him on the TR100 list, "a group of one hundred young innovators in technology from around the world." Wium Lie was also honored by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as one of the "Technology Pioneers" in 2000 and 2001.

In his spare time, Wium Lie enjoys spending time with his family, listening to classical music, painting, driving his electric car and fighting advertising. He currently resides in Oslo, Norway.

Håkon Wium Lie owns 7.72% in LITEM AS, an investment company which holds 17,766,755 shares (14,86%) and 100,000 options in the company.

Tove Selnes

VP of Human Resources

Tove Selnes joined Opera in 2007 as VP of Human Resources and has more than ten years of experience in organizational management. Prior to working at Opera, Selnes served as Director of Human Resources at Eltel Networks where she was responsible for the development and implementation of the organization's human resources strategy. Her professional experience also includes working at Avinor and Aetat.

Selnes holds a law degree from the University of Oslo, and is presently pursuing a Master's of Management degree at the Norwegian School of Management. In 1994 she was awarded an Erasmus scholarship with Bologna University in Italy, where she studied EU and international environmental rights. She is a noted and respected authority on human resources management.

Selnes holds 40,000 options in the company.