Sven P. Meyer is a Norwegian entrepreneur with a career spanning several decades across construction, real estate, and education. His direction shifted after a personal experience searching for adequate care for his ailing father exposed gaps in Norway's elderly care system, a moment that led him to create Boglede Tune Prestegård, an elderly care facility built around residents' quality of life and dignity rather than institutional efficiency alone.
Beyond elder care, Meyer has built a significant education business through Norgesakademiene AS, which runs several academies, including the Norwegian Mester Academy, which captured 60% market share within two years of launching.
His management philosophy centers on hiring people whose abilities exceed his own, holding to strict quality standards, expanding deliberately rather than quickly, and protecting core values through growth — an approach shaped in part by hardships earlier in his career that left him committed to employee welfare and fair treatment.
