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Ivar Pálsson, Managing Director

Business Qualifications

• Born 1958 in Reykjavik.
• 1978 Graduated from M.R. (Reykjavik College)
• 1978-1981 Studied Law and Business Administration at the University of Iceland .
• 1984 Graduated from Boston University, majored in marketing.
• 1984-1986 Marketing manager of exports for Seifur Ltd., seafood export.
• 1986-1988 Co-founder and Managing Director of Hafex Ltd., seafood export.
• 1988- Owner and Managing Director of Saevorur Ltd., seafood export.
• 1998- 2000 Chairman and partner at Allied Exporters

Personal History

• In the summer vacations from school, Ivar worked in: a box factory, road construction, building construction, hangar roofing, airline ground services, deep-sea fishing on a trawler, foresting (not in Iceland!), selling radiators and selling Volvo cars.
• Ivar has visited over 40 countries in the pursuit of trade, exchange and culture.
• Languages spoken:
  • Icelandic
  • English
  • Scandinavian (Danish/ Norvegian)
  • Some understanding of German, French and Latin.
• Ivar has primarily been involved in the export of cooked and peeled shrimp (prawns) , along with other types of seafood. He also concentrated on the structure of quality-control systems in peeled shrimp (prawns) , e.g. by becoming a certified HACCP instructor.
• Ventures participated in include a sushi plant, a shrimp plant, a crab plant, a mussels plant, factory real estate and some shipbuilding.
• Ivar was a secondary board member of the Trade Council of Iceland in 1998-2002.
• Interests are too many to write here!
• The parents are Mr. Pall S. Palsson (1916-1983), advocate to the Supreme Court and Gudrun Stephensen (1919-2003), teacher and housewife in Reykjavik. The sisters and brothers are eight in all, Ivar is the youngest.
• Ivar is married to Gerdur Thoroddsen (lawyer) and they live in Reykjavik with their 3 children. Ivar also has one son from Akureyri, N-Iceland, who studies in Sweden.

Tel.: +354 511 1175

Fax: +354 511 1176

E-mail: ivar@sea.is