Biography

Lin Song has served as our chief executive officer since October 2025 and as a member of our Board of Directors since October 2022. He has worked for our group beginning in 2002 in Oslo, Norway and served as our co-chief executive officer from August 2020 to October 2025 and prior to that as chief operating officer from March 2017 to August 2020. Mr. Song has an engineering background and has served in various roles inside our group, including project manager of one of our group’s earliest initiatives to enable full web browsing on mobile devices and as director of engineering delivery. Later on, he served as general manager of Opera’s subsidiary in China and assisted in the establishment of Opera’s R&D center in Beijing. Mr. Song also served as a director of Otello Corporation ASA (OSE: OTEC), a Norwegian internet company, from June 2020 until January 2025. Mr. Song obtained a bachelor’s degree in information systems from the University of International Business and Economics in 2004.