Erik Ohlson Erik Ohlson Sir Erik Olof Ohlson, 1st Baronet (19 July 1873 – 20 March 1934) was a Swedish-born British shipping magnate and coal and timber merchant. Ohlson was a son of a farmer in the village of Oppeby in Fellingsbro parish, Sweden. He spent ten years in the coal importing business in Sweden. In 1902, he emigrated to Hull, England, and established the firm of Ohlson & Co, shipowners and brokers, coal exporters, and timber importers. He was knighted in 1915 and created a Baronet, of Scarborough, in the 1920 New Year Honours for his efforts to bring Sweden into
Chris Ohlson Chris Ohlson Chris Ohlson (born August 24, 1975) is an American film producer and director based in Austin, Texas. He is best known for his work on "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter", "The Overbrook Brothers" and "Thank You a Lot". Ohlson is the 2015 Independent Spirit Piaget Producers Award winner, a 2013 Creative Producing Fellow of The Sundance Institute, and an alum of IFP's Narrative Lab Program. Ohlson’s first film as a producer, John Bryant’s "The Overbrook Brothers", screened in competition at SXSW in 2009. The film went on to play at numerous festivals around the world before being distributed by