Hakon Halvorsen

Mr. Hakon Halvorsen is an Investment Manager at Sector Asset Management SA. Mr. Halvorsen joined Sector Asset Management Group in late 2004 from the position as Senior Portfolio Manager and First Vice President of DnBNOR Asset Management ASA in Oslo, which he joined in early 2000.
From October 2001 until March 2004 Mr. Halvorsen served as a portfolio manager of 2 global long-only equity funds specialized in the telecom and financial industries respectively - both of which became Morningstar 5 rated - followed by a five month tenure as portfolio manager of a market neutral equity hedge discretionary mandate.
Mr. Halvorsen switched to the buy side in 2000 from the position asFinancial Analyst covering European IT services companies at Enskilda Securities, having been a sell-side equity analyst at various broker firms since 1992, when he initially was recruited to the industry by Mr. J.
Peter Andersland (one of the co-founders of Sector Asset Management ASA).
Earlier he was a Credit Officer at Christiania Bank International in 1991, and a Scientific Researcher at the National Defence Research Establishment and the Institute for Energy Technology during 1987-1991.
Mr. Halvorsen holds a BA.Sc.
from the University of Ottawa and the Doctorate Program (distinction) from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business administration, specializing in quantitative methods within finance.