- Source of Wealth: Business (Strawberry, a corporate group consisting of several companies such as Strawberry Art & Design, Strawberry Capital, Strawberry Equity, Strawberry Properties, Strawberry Hospitality Group and hereunder Nordic Choice Hotels)
- Age: 57
- Birth Place: Porsgrunn, Norway
- Marital Status: Married (Gunhild Anker Stordalen)
- Full Name: Petter Anker Stordale
- Nationality: Norwegian
- Date of Birth: 29 November 1962
- Ethnicity: Norwegian
- Occupation: Investor and Owner of Strawberry, a corporate group consisting of several companies such as Strawberry Art & Design, Strawberry Capital, Strawberry Equity, Strawberry Properties, Strawberry Hospitality Group and hereunder Nordic Choice Hotel
- Education: Norwegian School of Marketing
- Children: 3 (Emilie, Jakob and Henrik)
Petter Stordalen is a Norwegian investor, hotel “tycoon”, property developer and environmentalist.
Stordalen is a self-made businessman with an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion that stems from investments in hotels, shopping centers, and other properties. Through his company Nordic Choice Hotels, Stordalen owns in excess of 170 hotels and employs more than 9200 people. An outspoken environmentalist. He chained himself to the UK nuclear treatment plant Sellafield in protest for nine hours in 2002.