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Icelandair stopover buddy ceo birkir h lm gu nason
Birkir Hólm Guðnason (born 6 May 1974, Iceland) is an Icelandic business leader and CEO of Icelandair, the flag carrier airline in Iceland.
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- Icelandair stopover buddy ceo birkir h lm gu nason
- Birkir h lm gu nason n r framkv mdastj ri icelandair j n 2008
- Biography
- Personal life
- References
Birkir h lm gu nason n r framkv mdastj ri icelandair j n 2008
Biography
Birkir (see Icelandic name customs) is from Akureyri in northern Iceland. He finished a Bsc. degree in Economics and Business Administration in 1998 from Aalborg University, Denmark. Two years later he finished his MBA in International Business and Economics from the same university.
Birkir worked for Icelandair since graduating. He started as Sales Manager in Iceland, then had the same job for North America. He moved back to Europe when he became General Manager for Central Europe, stationed in Frankfurt. In 2006 he became General Manager for Scandinavia, stationed in Copenhagen.
In May 2008, Birkir was appointed CEO of Icelandair.
He has presided over the company in turbulent times, first with the Icelandic economic collapse in late 2008 and then the volcanic eruptions in 2010 and 2011.
Personal life
With his partner, Fríða Dóra Steindórsdóttir, Birkir has four children born 2000-2010.
