My name is Bjørn Kofoed, and I am born and grown up in Tromsø not long time ago. My sister, her daugther and her family and my brother still live in there, but my mother lives in southern Norway. My father passed away in 2005. Tromsø After I had finished high school in Tromsø, I completed my military duty in the military police and as a truck driver. On the side I did courses in car electronics and auto constructions, and I won the Norwegian Military Championship in precision driving. Thereafter, I left for Oslo, where I finished my Business Administration education as Siviløkonom (a degree between a Bachelor and Master Business degree). Military On the side of the studies I had 5 different jobs, one as a bus driver in the weekends. I found it as an exiting challenge to manoeuvre the bus in the busy and narrow streets in the city centre on Saturdays. Other jobs were to repairing and adjusting auto electronics to the cars of the students, training jobs, door bouncer and night watchman at the student home. After finished studies, I worked at the headquarters to Norsk Hydro for two years, in the accounting department for Oil and Gas. My bus- driver cap At work With a scholarship from Norsk Hydro, I went to USA where I took my MBA (Master of Business Administration) degree at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Thereafter, I returned to Norsk Hydro and continued to work there for another two years. Continue on page 2 A picture of me as student and graduation in the USA.  To the top of the page