Jon Sveindal was born 1946 April 24 in Moss a small town in Eastern Norway where he studied at the Fredikstad Handelsgym and graduated to "Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration."

 Single, has been two adult daughters and lives in  Bergen.

 He speaks Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, English and some French  worked until 2015 for the most important and 2nd largest Norwegian newspaper. Is retired as teacher of  Economics and English.

 Regular contributor to "Bridge the Norge" he is a IPBA member and has received some awards as a columnist.

As a player, Jon has won a dozen national titles, two times the Nordic Cup and his best International result as runner-up for World Championship in 1993.

He also collected two bronze medals at the European Team in 1993 and 1999.

He disappeared 2018, 13 July.