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Occupation
  
Businessman

Role
  
Businessman

Name
  
Kjell Rokke

Parents
  
Gunnvor Rokke

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Born
  
25 October 1958 (age 65) (
1958-10-25
)
Molde, Norway

Net worth
  
NOK 12.5 billion ≈ $2 billion (2008 estimate)

Spouse
  
Anne Eidsvig (m. 2004), Kari Rokke (m. 1980–1992)

Children
  
Christian Rokke, Normann Rokke, Elisabeth Monsen Rokke

Similar People
  
Bjorn Rune Gjelsten, John Fredriksen, Johan H Andresen jr, Petter Stordalen

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Kjell Inge Rokke (born 25 October 1958 in Molde) is a Norwegian businessman and among the richest people in Norway, controlling the Norwegian company Aker Solutions. He was also a joint owner of Wimbledon Football Club and involved in the controversial relocation of the team from London to Milton Keynes.

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Career

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Rokke started out as a fisherman aged 18, and has no secondary or higher education. For several years, he worked on fishing trawlers in Alaska. Rokke was based in Seattle, Washington in the 1980s, owning and operating American Seafoods Company and Resource Group International (RGI), which included Brooks Sports and Helly Hansen. In the mid-1990s, he returned to Norway and bought and restructured various companies.

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In 2008, Rokke was considered to be the seventh richest person in Norway, with a fortune of NOK 12.5 billion, approximately 2.2 billion U.S. dollars.

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Rokke suffers from dyslexia, but claims that it has helped him to his success, and states that he would not be where he is today without his dyslexia.

Association football

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Rokke is also known for his involvement in association football, and became involved with Norwegian side Molde FK in 1993. He was also central to the funding of the club's new stadium, which got the nickname "Rokkelokka" (English: "The Rokke Park"). Some estimates suggest that he has spent about NOK 400 million funding the club.

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Rokke, along with his business partner Bjorn Rune Gjelsten, also bought into Wimbledon Football Club in the late 1990s, becoming a joint owner of the team in 2000. The following year, with the side homeless since leaving their Plough Lane ground in 1991 and playing at Crystal Palace's Selhurst Park stadium in Croydon, southeast London, Rokke and Gjelsten, along with chairman Charles Koppel and businessman Pete Winkelman agreed to relocate the team to Milton Keynes, a town around 60 miles from their traditional base. This sparked a year of protest at matches from Wimbledon fans, determined not to let their club be 'franchised' like this. Although common in American sport, the relocation of a professional English football club had never been done before. After rejections from the Football League and The FA, the decision was eventually passed on to a three-man arbitration panel, the outcome being two to one in favour of the move. Wimbledon fans, outraged with the decision, agreed to form a new club to support, AFC Wimbledon, and declared a boycott on their former team. The following season, Wimbledon FC would go on to play in front of record low crowds, including just 664 for a League Cup game against Rotherham, before finally completing the move in September 2003. It renamed itself a year later, adopting the name Milton Keynes Dons.

Corruption conviction

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After his 2005 conviction for corruption involving the illegal purchase of a boat licence, Rokke served 24–25 days of a 120-day sentence in Hof Prison, and was subsequently released on parole.

References

Kjell Inge Rokke Wikipedia