Espen Agdestein (born 7 February 1965) is the former manager of current Chess World Champion

Magnus Carlsen Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster who is the reigning five-time World Chess Champion. He is also a three-time World Rapid Chess Champion and five-time World Blitz Chess Champion. Carlsen has ...

(until 2021). He is the brother of chess grandmaster and former coach of Magnus Carlsen, Simen Agdestein, and is himself a FIDE master, with a FIDE rating of 2372. Espen is one of the co-founders and partners of Idekapital, the largest Venture Capital Fund in Norway. Idekapital manages over NOK 500 million and invests in Norwegian startup companies in need of growth capital. He founded Idekapital together with

Anders Brandt Anders Brandt, (born 24. December 1960 in Oslo) is a serial entrepreneur. He is the chairman of Idekapital AS which is owned by him and his family. Brandt is part owner and chairman of the board in Magnus Carlsen's company Play Magnus, and its ange ...

, Rune Holen and Kristian Øvsthus. He is part owner and sits in the board of directors in

's company Play Magnus, where

is chairman and Kate Murphy is the CEO. Espen said that "Play Magnus is Magnus Carlsen's tool to bring chess to the world". Espen was Carlsen's manager beginning in 2009, and according to an interview in the Norwegian newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad, the job as manager of Magnus Carlsen turned out to be more hectic than Agdestein first expected. He founded the magazine Art of Taste in 2001 which was later bought by

Hjemmet Mortensen ''Hjemmet'', pronounced "yemmeh" (English: ''Home'') is a Norwegian weekly family magazine published in Oslo, Norway. History and profile ''Hjemmet'' was launched by the Hjemmet Mortensen AB in 1909, which merged with Ernst G. Mortensen, Egmont ...

in 2006. Espen Agdestein worked as a director at

from 2006-2009. He quit his job as a director to start working as

's manager.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Agdestein, Espen Place of birth missing (living people) Norwegian chess players Living people Chess FIDE Masters 1965 births