Bjørn Tore Larsen
Founder and CEO, Norse Atlantic Airways
Bjørn Tore Larsen is the founder, CEO, and the major shareholder of the airline Norse Atlantic Airways, a new low-cost long-haul airline that was launched in March 2021. Bjørn Tore has been interested in and passionate about aviation for as long as he can remember. He holds several type ratings, including the Boeing 747.
Bjørn Tore has extensive international shipping experience, which includes founding and controlling OSM Maritime Group in 1989, Arendal Dampskibsselskap, a ship owning company headquartered in Norway with more than 16,000 employees internationally, and ADS Maritime Holding, a company listed on the Euronext Growth Exchange. He co-founded aviation management company OSM Aviation in 2013, which has since expanded into flight schools in Europe and USA.
Bjørn Tore is a self-made entrepreneur who spent a year at sea when he was 16. Soon after returning home to go to high school, he decided to pursue his dream of becoming a businessman and at the age of 18 acquired a travel agency near his now hometown of Arendal, Norway. Three years later he founded OSM Maritime, which is now among the largest ship management companies in the world.
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