Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner

Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner ( born August 29, 1967 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic telecommunications researcher and co-founder and Managing Director until December 2009 (CEO) of the company Opera Software ASA. He holds today 14.2 percent of the shares. In December 2013 Tetzchner founded the company Vivaldi Technologies and launched the social network Vivaldi.net. The platform includes a forum, blogs, chats, enables photo - sharing and offers the ad-free email service Vivaldi mail.

Moreover, by Tetzchner author of fm2html, a converter FrameMaker to HTML.

He is the son of linguistics professor Stephen of Tetzchner.

Public attention was Tetzchner on 21 April 2005 with the statement that he would swim across the Atlantic Ocean from Norway to the United States, if the latest version of Opera would be recorded on the first four days, more than a million downloads. This number has been reached, and Opera Software had announced that Tetzchner " stand by his word " would. The - not entirely serious - but try on 25 and 26 April failed before "Mum 's hot choclate", as the company's inflatable accompanying him to " open sea " capsized.

After disagreements with the Opera Board about the excessive concentration in its opinion on the relevant securities exchange quarterly results withdrew from Tetzchner 30 June 2011 from the company all the way back. Previously, he had been the CEO position despite task of strategic and independent employees on a full-time post. In a letter to the Opera staff, he announced that he would retain the company in the future in view - but from the outside.