Adelsten Sivertsen

{{Short description|Norwegian businessman}}

Adelsten Gudvan Sivertsen (7 May 1925 – 13 May 2010) was a Norwegian businessperson.

He took the cand.jur. degree at the university in 1951, before working as tax director in Sør-Vågsøy and deputy judge in Gjerpen.{{cite news|title=Adelsten Sivertsen 70 år 7. mai|agency=Norwegian News Agency|date=12 April 1995|language=Norwegian}} From 1952 to 1959 he worked as a secretary in the Norwegian Employers' Confederation. From 1959 to 1973 he was a secretary and director of G.C. Rieber & Co, and from 1974 to 1990 he was the CEO of Storli.{{cite news|title=85 år 7. mai: Tidligere adm.dir. Adelsten Sivertsen|agency=Norwegian News Agency|date=20 April 2010|language=Norwegian}}

Sivertsen chaired the Bergen branch of the Norwegian Shipowners' Association from 1987 to 1988. He was a board member of the bank IS-Banken from 1989 to 1995,{{cite news|title=I-S Banken klar|last=Engstrup|first=Inge|date=19 October 1989|work=Dagens Næringsliv|page=32|language=Norwegian}}{{cite news|title=Roll ut av IS-Banken|last=Eliassen|first=Jan I.|date=2 December 1994|work=Bergens Tidende|page=10|language=Norwegian}} and of Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap.{{cite news|title=HSD vil ikke ha Lærdal-alternativ|last=Eliassen|first=Jan I.|date=15 May 1992|work=Bergens Tidende|page=4|language=Norwegian}}

He lived in Bergen before retirement, but did in the end reside in Sandvika. Sivertsen died of cancer on 13 May 2010.