Geir Ivarsøy was the lead programmer at Opera Software. He and Jon von Tetzchner were part of a research group at the Norwegian state phone company where they developed browsing software called MultiTorg Opera in 1994. In 1995 Geir and Jon obtained the rights to the software, formed Opera Software, and continued working on the browser full-time.
- Occupation
- computer scientist, programmer, businessperson
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Born
- June 27, 1957
- Died
- March 9, 2006
