Hyper Island

London, Reino Unido

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London
Reino Unido
Telefone: 07917562369
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Basic Info

Hyper Island

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London
Reino Unido
Telefone: 07917562369
Email:

Hyper Island Team Members

Sofia Wingren

Sofia Wingren

CEO Hyper Island

Otto Ruijs

Otto Ruijs

Managing Director Singapore

Trainer, lecturer/speaker and consultant at Hyper Island in Singapore.

Otto has lived and breathed innovation consulting for over 15 years. Lastly as Director for ?What If! Innovation Partners in Singapore where he started and ran the Singapore office for 3+ years. Prior to that he worked for Clear (M&C Saatchi), a boutique brand & innovation agency, as Head of Strategy in Hong Kong, where he led multi-country, insight-based projects. He started his career in management consultancy (Twynstra Gudde) after a short stint in venture capital and incubation. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Hotel Management and a Master's degree in Business. 

David McCall

David McCall

Managing Director and Global Partnerships

Education, Business Transformation & Experimentation are my thing .....as long as they are fun and challenging

20 years of working in the Media and Advertising, large and small, good and bad led me to a place that shares my values and ambition ....HYPER ISLAND. I'm part of a team responsible for creating and delivering our first-ever World Class MA in Digital and developing & expanding our company across the globe 

Maria Distner

Maria Distner

Program DIrector

I don't like it. I love it.

I am continuously curios about myself, my family and my friends. It takes me place. 

Per Vidar Lundberg

Per Vidar Lundberg

Managing Director of the Americas, Global director of Tailored Learning

Hyper Island provides the mindset, methods and tools you need to be successful in a digital world. Try us out!

Committed change agent focusing on business development, communication and unlocking organizational power. Have run a number of major change projects focusing on the opportunities and needs in a digital business environment. Successful and sustainable progress requires a methodical approach and focus on creating commitment, alignment, and enthusiasm in your teams. 

Jan  Spjuth

Jan Spjuth

CFO

Jonathan Briggs

Jonathan Briggs

Founder

Liking things is not enough, go make something

Hi. I'm one of the co-founders of this odd place called Hyper Island. Back in the long distant past I was a techy programmer who became an educator and then an academic. I met some Swedes and we bought a prison and flew interesting people in to meet an amazing group of students who were making things.

I've continued to make things and so have a lot of the people we have taught: software, apps, designs, teams, courses and companies.

Now I have a chance to do it all again here in Singapore and I'm very excited about that. Suddenly we are making on a bigger scale and that's challenging but the impact we could have could be way bigger. I hope so.

Sometimes people forget where we come from and imagine that Hyper Island sprang from nothing: it didn't. It comes from a long constructivist tradition: learning through making, exploring, experimentation and teamwork.

Come and visit us in Singapore!

Hyper Island in Singapore

The challenge is to take the best of Hyper Island in the rest of the world and transport it here to Asia where the culture, people and rules are different: expectations of education are different and so is the bureaucracy.

We've found an amazing campus and begun preparing our first course: a Specialist Diploma Interactive Art Director, similar to the one in Sweden but at a more advanced academic level (one of the challenges).

Later in 2013 we will bring the Manchester MA here (with the help of Teeside) and experiment with running a flexible learning MA too.
Brand Window

Exploring big retail and social data to support brand teams through ambient computing. Still a skunkworks project but likely to see the light of day soon. 

David Erixon

David Erixon

Founders

The difference between ’try’ and ‘triumph’ is just a little umph.

After co-founding the world renowned school Hyper Island (1996), and digital service design agency Doberman (1999), David spent over 10 years in senior commercial and marketing leadership positions at Vodafone, including six years as Global Brand Director where he worked on all major M&As and business, brand and culture transformations, opening up markets such as China, India, Ghana, Qatar, New Zealand, Romania, Czech Republic and South Africa. David was appointed Vice President of Products & Customer Experience for the Russian telecom innovator Yota, and was part of the leadership team that created the world’s most advanced 4G network, successfully branching out into entertainment and media services, banking and connected products. David is now working on Customer Centricity, Digital Innovation and Business Transformation, both on industry projects, research initiatives and executive training for clients such as Hyper Island, Unilever and Target. 

Mikael Ahlström

Mikael Ahlström

CEO & Founder, Speaker & Student, Entrepreneur & Investor, Strategist & Producer

Curious parallel entrepreneur. Business develop with social media, working with clients at Britny learning with the board and students at Hyper Island

Spent the last 20 years running and building start-ups and now focus my days at the companies in Sprout Park including the digital agency Britny, the film production company DFM and the business center The Park in Stockholm.

I work close with internet projects and focus on business development issues and entrepreneurial possibilities in the industry and thrive around post-its and ideas. Thrown around the world by Hyper Island giving Master Classes in digital transformation for the advertising industry and large brands.

Also on the board of a few organization in the fields of entrepreneurship, sustainability and education.

Right now exploring the world of start-ups in practice through our own incubator finding the best ways of bringing ideas to life.

The Park

The Park is an office hotel where you as a freelancer or smaller company can rent an office or a desk with the access to all the services larger companies can enjoy including reception, switchboard, printers, copy machines and maybe the most important colleagues at the office. Our office guests work mainly in the field of communication but do everything from coaching individuals to produce films and build websites and mobile services. Vi have our office today at Sveavägen in central Stockholm hosting about 150 creatives. 

Bella Funck

Bella Funck

Director of Customer and Network Experience

I'm a visionary doer, with a purpose to use meaning and learning as core vehicles for personal and business growth.

I've got 16 years experience working at the intersection of transformative education/training, digital business/.com start ups, and the creative and communication industries. Today I'm working as Director of Customer & Network experience at Hyper Island with a focus on driving our own digital transformation. The roles includes being manager of our Global Functions; Digital Sales & Experience, Portfolio and Learning Design, Collaborator Network and Casting. I'm also designing and facilitating learning experiences for teams and organisations within the areas of digital transformation, leadership, culture and innovation.

My passion is to wander in the nature (especially in my kayak) and I'm obsessed by asking questions that helps me to better understand the world and myself. I love people, learning and imagining the f 

Fredrik Månsson

Fredrik Månsson

Chairman Hyper Island

I love working with bright, enthusiastic people who can change the world and knows it. Hyper Island is a great company. I´m proud to be part of it. 

Patrik Salén

Patrik Salén

Board Member & Shareholder

"The best way of learning about anything is by doing" (Richard Bransons version of "prototyping"! :-)

From a decade in transportation and logistics in the 90ies, back then with special responsibility for the South American market, I am now truly enjoying investing time, energy and capital in entrepreneurial expansion stage companies in various industries since 2002, especially in the Nordic markets. Hyper Island being one of the more dynamic and truly enjoyable growth companies with a multitude of opportunities and challenges.

When not working I enjoy my greatest passion of yacht racing, mixed with family life including loving wife and three fantastic daughters.

Some relevant links to my professional life: http://www.salengroup.se http://www.finix.se

Board/Active investments: https://www.hyperisland.com http://www.preciofishbone.se http://www.mowic.se

Additional (passive) investments (samples): http://www.exoticsnacks.se http://www.renthia.com/sv/ http://www.aritco.com http://www.noxon.com 

Åsa Silfverberg

Åsa Silfverberg

Educational revolutionary, Head of Design & Development and Part Owner.

It is all about seeing and acting on peoples highest future possibility. Hyper Island is the perfect antidote of Attentional Violence.