Haraldur Thordarson

Chairman of the Board

Haraldur Thordarson is the Chairman of the Board of Fossar Investment Bank.

Haraldur has an extensive experience working within the financial industry and is CEO of VÍS Group, Fossar Investment Bank’s parent company. Haraldur is one of the founders of Fossar Investment Bank and served as CEO from 2015 to 2023. He was Managing Director of Capital Markets at Straumur Investment Bank from 2011 until 2015 and sat on the bank’s Management Board during the same period. Haraldur played a key role in developing the bank’s growth strategy and new business opportunities. In the years 2007 until 2010 Haraldur was the Group Treasurer of Exista hf, an Icelandic financial service group, and Head of Funding at the same company from 2006. Before that Haraldur worked within the Treasury function at Kaupthing Bank.

Haraldur holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration from Reykjavik University and a Global Executive MBA degree from IESE Business School. He is also a certified securities broker.