Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen
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Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen (born December 27, 1947) was the chief executive of LEGO Group between 1979 and 2004. Due to an error on his birth certificate his surname was spelled with a K.
LEGO Group is a privately held company and is controlled by the Christiansen Family and their foundations. Kjeld is one of four son's, of Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, and a grandson of the founder, Ole Kirk Christiansen.
In October 1969 Hanne Christiansen (sister) and Kjeld were driving home from a movie in the neighboring town of Give. Their car skidded off the road and hit a tree. Hanne was killed and Kjeld was seriously injured. The tragedy so shook Godtfred that he seriously considered selling the company Kjeld went on to receive a B.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration from the Arhus School of Business, and then an MBA in 1972 from IMB in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1973 he returned to the family enterprise as co-director of the LEGO Company’s technical R&D department and of its first foreign production plant in Switzerland. In 1979 he succeeded his father as CEO. Kjeld married Camilla in 1974 and they have three children, Sofie 1975, Thomas Kirk Kristiansen 1979 and Agnetes 1982
Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen is currently the richest person in Denmark according to Forbes list of billionaires 2007 with a fortune of $3.3 billion
He was shown on the front of the set 10184 Town Plan as he was on the original release 50 years earlier
