Ultimate Beauty

Ultimate Beauty is a fast-growing, people-first, fully remote organization. Our purpose is to enable our team members to live their best life, while doing this "business thing" really really well.

As Chief People Officer, I'm responsible for developing a world-class culture as we 10x our business. This means I get to play with radical, leading-edge concepts such as Remote Work, Unique Ability, EOS, and Best life Coaching.

The bigger goal is to first prove we can have a couple hunded people live their best lives, while delivering outsized results.. -> And then share our learnings to inspire a million people to live better lives through better work.

Chief People Officer

Running Remote

Community Member

The Future is Remote

Ex-management consultant/entrepreneur/leader → turned Remote Evangelist. On a mission to inspire, educate & coach individuals, teams & organizations to succeed in a remote world.

20-30 minute conversations with the leaders, thinkers, and doers of Remote Work. 

Highlighted episodes
🎙 Humanizing Remote w/ Chase Warrington, Head of Remote @ Doist (https://spoti.fi/3U7N8b7)
🎙 The Benefits of Remote Work w/ Tony Jamous, Founder @ Oyster (https://spoti.fi/3hd1TL7)
🎙 Asynchronous Work w/ Nicolas Cava, Engineering Manager @ Zendesk (https://spoti.fi/3h36QWE)

Podcast Host / Remote Evangelist

Beleco

70% of companies are already hybrid (intentional or not). However most companies do not know how to realize the benefits (up to 50% reduced cost, while increasing productivity and engagement)

Beleco helps companies with the transition to Hybrid, through subscription based furniture for Offices and Home Offices. 

As Head of Hybrid I lead our internal Hybrid Transformation, and act as a thought leader with the wider community. 

As VP of Sales, I am  building a World Class Sales Organisation, to help our customers with their Hybrid Transformation, and create great workplaces for their employees - wherever they are.

Head of Hybrid / VP of Sales

NetSuite

Sales Manager, Nordic Startup & Scale-up segment. 
Led the turnaround of an underperfoming sales team of 11 remote account executives.

Sales Manager, Nordics

Google

Leading Google's engagement with startups across Northern Europe (Nordics & Benelux) 
- Grew function by >120% to 42M ARR
- Managed Google's portfolio of top 10 Scaleups to help drive hypergrowth (~200% YoY)
- Engaged with VCs and the Startup Ecosystem to support top 100 startups at scale

🚀 Head of Startups, Northern Europe

- Account Executive for Spotify, one of Google Cloud's top 3 customers globally (>300M ARR)
- Grew product adoption -> account revenue by 57%
- Led team of 16 cross-functional Googlers (Stockholm, New York, Dublin)

Account Executive, Top Account, Google Cloud

Business developer responsible for larger technology partners in Northern Europe and FRITES. Worked with two of Sweden's most exciting startups, helping them develop world class ad-tech products. 

Responsible for progressing and closing the largest deal in Channel Sales EMEA history.

Strategic Partner Developer, Channel Sales

- Helped Secure 50M SEK investment form Norrsken Foundation
- Hired and managed product and tech team
- Responsible for product strategy and development

Head of Product

Kugghuset AB

- Responsible for Future Labs (Product development hub)
- Managed design and development of a sales competition tool for Bambora
- Implemented internal sales pipeline & dashboards
- Trained colleagues in relationship driven sales

Product Developer

Seed Nordic

Startup Accelerator / Startup Factory

- Invested in 3 startups and led them through a 4 month program (1 exit) 
- Delivered startup-as-a-service innovation projects (6 weeks from idea to first paying customer)

Sample projects:
- Bambora Growth Capital
- Butlr
- Pimobo
- Frameworks
- NYFoodBox
- GetSocial

CEO / Product Developer

Serendipity

Serendipity Innovations was a management company with specialist expertise in innovation processes and early corporate development. 

- As a business developer I supported clients with their innovation needs, while continuously identifying establishing and growing new businesses.
- I was the initiator of S:Growth Accelerator, which we spun off and renamed Seed Nordic.

Business Developer

Head of Hybrid @ Beleco 🏡👨‍💻 Subscription based furniture for office and home office 📢 Remote Evangelist 🌟

🚀 On a mission to inspire a million people to live better lives through better work
🌟 Strategic thinker with 19 years experience across consulting, technology, commercial & people roles. 

Chief People Officer at Ultimate Beauty, ensuring that our people are happy, healthy engaged and able to do great work remotely.

🎙️ Podcast Host for "The Future is Remote", I engage in insightful conversations with industry leaders and thinkers in the remote work landscape.

Kenneth Hellem

Oyster®

Joined as employee no. 1 and helped scale the business from an idea to 700 employees and a $1bn+ valuation in 3.5 years. Reported to both the CEO and COO, leading many critical cross-functional programs that underpin how we operate and serve our customers.

Key achievements:

- Worked with the CEO to successfully raise a $25m series A from Tier 1 Silicon Valley and European VC’s
- Built our OKR goal-setting processes and led the Executive Team to align on strategic priorities on a quarterly basis
- Built company-wide project management processes to achieve quarterly OKR’s
- Built and managed the operational and cultural programs to be productive and happy as
a fully remote company of 700 people across 70+ countries

Director of Operations

Delocate (acquired by Oyster)

Helping startups thrive as remote organisations 👨‍💻🌍

Founder and CEO

Trade Nations

Built a remote-first company with employees across Europe and Latin America that helps governments to increase their country's international exports using technology.

Co-founder and CEO 

Yuvoh

Yuvoh is a cutting-edge property investment analytics platform that allows property investors to analysed investment opportunities for short-term rental strategies and streamline the buying process.

I took this company from being pre-product with a team of 2 to launching the product, generating revenue and building a team of 10 distributed between the UK, Ukraine, Greece and China.

RateSetter

My responsibilities have grown so that I now own all aspects of the investor side of RateSetter's product.

I managed a 2 teams, totalling 15 developers between the UK, Portugal and Ukraine.

Senior Product Manager - Investors

I owned the core systems of RateSetter, such as the financial matching engine and market structures among others.

Main areas of focus include:
- Fostering a product-driven culture within the organisation 
- Developing data-driven product strategy
- Managing the entire product lifecycle from planning to release.
- Leading projects with a global team of software engineers, QA engineers and UX designers
- Managing the roadmap of RateSetters markets via Agile frameworks - Scrum and Kanban.

Product Manager - Marketplace

AIR Worldwide

Product Consultant responsible for a suite of advanced catastrophe risk modelling SaaS products used to make individuals, businesses, and society more resilient to range of natural, anthropogenic and cyber risks.

Product Consultant

Product Analyst

Versatile SaaS leader with 10 years experience in Operations and Product. Specialities include 0-to-1 strategic projects, OKR planning and building operating rhythms. 

I get excited about opportunities to build foundational operating systems that support Product and GTM.

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