Rank #1868
Petter Stordalen & family
Net worth $2.2B
Hotels · Norway
- Born
- Nov 29, 1962
- Age
- 63
- Source
- Hotels
- Residence
- Oslo
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Petter Stordalen and his three children own Scandinavia's largest hotel chain, Nordic Choice Hotels, which has 180 high-end hotels in five countries.
- In 2018 he signed over almost all ownership, but none of the control, of the hotel chain to his kids; he has vowed to keep control until his death.
- Stordalen got his start working at his father's grocery store at age 10, and later helped found one of Norway's largest commercial real estate firms.
- He married model-turned-physician Gunhild Stordalen in a lavish $5 million affair officiated by Irish singer Bob Geldof in 2010.
- A committed environmentalist, Stordalen chained himself to the U.K.'s Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in protest in 2002.
- A former Ironman triathlete, Stordalen runs 6 miles a day.