Kjell Christian Ulrichsen
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Kjell Christian Ulrichsen (born 18 November 1944) is a Norwegian businessperson and former curler. Along with Erik Must, Ulrichsen established the stock broker Fondsfinans. The two later bought part of the publishing company
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. On 26 November 2008, he sold his shares to Must for NOK 350 per share, even though co-owner Trygve Hegnar, with whom they were in a conflict, had bid NOK 500. Through the company Stabæk Holding he owns
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, the home ground of
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, and was previously one of the club's main owners. From the age of two until the age of eighteen, Ulrichsen lived at an
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. He is cousin of
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. He has had a legal conflict with
Sandefjord Municipality Sandefjord () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Vestfold. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Sandefjord ...
regarding his property on
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at
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regarding him trying to hinder the public their
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.


Curling career

He is a champion of the first-ever
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, played and a three-time Norwegian men's curling champion.


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1944 births European curling champions Norwegian curling champions Living people Norwegian company founders People from Bærum {{Norway-business-bio-stub