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GAUTE VIK Cand. Real., Applied Mathematics, 1978 Ph.D., Statistics, 1984 G aute Vik is the executive chairman of Norcon PLC, which offers project management and related services in more than 30 countries around the world. He graduated in 1978 as Cand. Real. in AppliedMathematics fromUniversity of Bergen in Norway. He was employed by the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, providing studies as the basis for the Norwegian Parliament to decide on Defense Structure and longer-term budgets. In 1982, he was awarded a fellowship from the Norwegian government to study at OSU. Vik graduated in 1984 with a doctorate in statistics. He was inducted to the National Dean’s List. In 1986, he went to work for Teleplan, a Norwegian telecom consultant company and became in charge of business outside Norway. Starting with a handful of consultants and a small local staff in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, he expanded the business to the surrounding countries and succeeded in 1994 in closing what was recognized then as the largest telecom consultancy contract in the world, according to Norwegian newspapers Aftenposten and Stavanger Aftenblad. Teleplan continued to expand to southeast Asia, Europe and the United States, and the business was re-organized into a new company with Vik as CEO. The company was successfully listed on the London Stock Exchange (AIM) in 2008. Gaute Vik is an avid hunter and angler who enjoys travel challenges. He travelled through Sahara with three friends in an old Volkswagen bus in 1972, before the existence of any roads, and he has been all over the Scandinavian waters with his boat. Bret Danilowicz, then-dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, officially inducts Gaute Vik into the Hall of Fame. OSU COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SC I ENCES 45