Kristoffer Stensrud was born in 1953 in Trondheim, Norway. He studied Financial Planning and Monetary Policy at the Copenhagen Business School and has over sixteen years of experience in the financial services industry. He began his career as chief analyst (1979-1983) at Børsinformation ApS in Copenhagen and later became portfolio manager (1983-1985) with Børsinformation I.R. (UK). In 1985, he joined Stafonds as an analyst for four years and later joined Carnegie-Jensen in Copenhagen in 1990 as a chief analyst. In 1993, Kristoffer founded Skagen Funds and is currently portfolio manager for the Skagen Kon-Tiki fund which he launched in 2002. He applies a bottom-up approach, focusing on picking high quality companies with a low price tag or companies that are undervalued and unpopular.