Birger Steen
Board member
Management
Schibsted
Norway
Biography
Board member since 2014. Birger Steen is CEO of Parallels since 2010, and is based in Seattle. Non-executive Director of Nordea since 2015.He previously served as Vice President of Worldwide SMB and Distribution at Microsoft and as General Manager of Microsoft Russia and Microsoft Norway. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2002, Birger Steen was CEO of Scandinavia Online and Vice President of Business Development in Schibsted ASA. His first engagement with Schibsted was while he worked for McKinsey & Company as a consultant and engagement manager from 1993 to 1996. Before joining McKinsey, Steen was as an oil trader with Norwegian Oil Trading in Lithuania.Birger Steen received his MSc in computer science and industrial engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim. He also holds a degree in Russian language from the Defense School of Intelligence and Security and received his MBA from INSEAD in France.
Research Interest
Computer science and industrial engineering
