Jan Haudemann-Andersen

Jan Haudemann-Andersen (born 27 March 1958 in Skedsmokorset) is a Norwegian investor. He is a major private investor on the Oslo Stock Exchange and in property.

Background Haudemann-Andersen gained his siviløkonom from Agder distriktshøgskole and BI Norwegian Business School, and attended the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy at Oscarsborg Fortress. He started as a speculative investor with a loan from his stepbrother Stein Haudemann-Andersen (born 1955), At the same time, he also established the daughter company Trojan A/S (later Wega Oil). Haudemann-Andersen is also in charge of the everyday management here.

In 1995, Haudemann-Andersen became the major shareholder in Tandberg Data, and bought further in via Decibel. He was chairman until 2001, but by 1998 had already begun to sell out before the company fell. He was also heavily involved in Ask (later Proxima): a projector- or video company that was separated from Tandberg. He sold out of the company in 1999.

From 1996, Haudemann-Andersen experienced good development of the German IT-company Nexus, where he had most of the shares, purchased through Wega. At the same time, he became major shareholder in Decibel and another IT-firm, the Norwegian Birdstep, until he sold out in 2003. Between 2005 and 2007 he was also major shareholder in Norwegian chip companies Q-Free and Fara. In 2006 he bought up the mining company Wega, and sat on the board there. From 2004, he and a partner bought into the Swedish oil company PA Resources, which made good finds in Tunis. In 2006, he established, (via Datum), the gold mining company Wega Mining, which are based in Burkina Faso, which he sold out of in 2012. In 2016, he sold out of the hydrogen company Nel, which he had bought 50 million shares in the year before.

Haudemann-Andersen married Anne Margaret Caroline Stang (born 1960) in 1989. In 2014, he married violinist Marte Krogh (born 1975), whom he had been in a relationship with since 2009. They divorced in 2016.