Veterinarian is new CEO

Norway’s biggest online casino just got a new CEO. Norske Tipping AS’s new Chief Executive Officer has a slightly different background than that of the conventional online casinos CEO’s. An announcement recently released by the online casino stated that the former veterinary hospital administrator Torbjorn Almlid would be taking over the position of CEO for Norway’s gambling monopoly. Almlid is taking the reigns from the current acting CEO Axel Krogvig who took over the responsibilities when Reidar Nordby left the post in the later parts of last year. The search for a new leader of this company was a long and hard one but the people over at Norske Tipping AS seem excited about the new man in charge.

Amlid is a very interesting choice for Chief Executive Officer for an online casino. He is a veterinarian who has been working mostly in the field of research for the larger part of his career. As if that was not impressive enough he has a doctoral degree in genetics and is currently the director at the Innlandet Hospital Trust. How does that qualify him to be CEO of an online casino? We are getting to that… He ahs executive experience from his 10 year stay as CEO of Norsvin and his experience as a managing director at BioInn. In 1999 he gave the hospital care industry a whirl and was the executive director at the Feast Clinic AS. In 2003 he became vice president of Health East and joined the Innlandet Hospital Trust. He is set to take the reigns over at Norske Tipping first thing on January 1, 2009.

The folks over at Innlandet Hospital Trust are very sad to see their leader leave them but are happy that he ahs been given this opportunity. Amlid is confident that he will be a great addition to the online casino staff. He will be a thoughtful leader keeping in mind the social responsibility that online casinos must have as well as their monetary responsibility. He already has the stamp of approval from the chairman of Norsk Tipping’s board, Sigbjorn Johnsen said, “He is an excellent leader and has the ability to create space for development and growth within the framework in which the company operates.” We here at casino scrutiny wish the new CEO the best of luck in 2009.