Fjord management team

Mike Beeston

Chairman

Mike worked for six years at Saatchi and Saatchi where he was a Media Group Director before co-founding CHBi in 1994, one of the first web design companies. In 1998, CHBi was acquired by Razorfish for whom Mike was UK Managing Director. He led Razorfish for three successful years during which time it became the leading UK web design agency with more than 300 people. In early 2001 he left to help set up Fjord for whom he is the UK Managing Director and lead strategist for clients that include Nokia, Orange and the BBC.

Olof Schybergson

Founder and CEO

Olof is co-founder and CEO of Fjord. He has over 10 years experience of collaborating with major clients across the US and Europe to develop innovative service solutions and user experiences across various digital platforms. Previously he was creative director at Razorfish London. He holds an MA in Information and Graphic Design from De Montfort University. He takes a lead role on some of Fjord's most important projects, driving creativity and quality, to ensure solutions achieve Fjord's world class innovation standards. Olof’s recent work ranges from designing timeshifting interfaces for the BBC to leading the user interface design for Yahoo’s mobile applications.

Also see Olof's LinkedIn profile

Andrew Falcon

COO

Andrew is the Chief Operating Officer for Fjordnet Limited. Prior to Fjordnet, Andrew held the same position at iTouch plc, a mobile phone content company, assisting build this company from fledgling to a UK Listed multinational operating in 23 countries and turnover of over £120m. iTouch was sold for £180m in June 2005, followed by an MBO in February 2007, and further sale to Buongiorno in July 2007. Prior to iTouch, he worked in investment banking and global gold mining. He is currently a non-executive investor director of two young mobile technology companies. He holds a bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Witwatersrand and a bachelor of laws degree from the University of Natal, both in South Africa.

Christian Lindholm

Partner and Director

Christian has 10 years design management experience from Nokia. Following his Nokia role he worked at Yahoo as Vice President of Global Mobile Products, overseeing the development of Yahoo's mobile services. He drove the creation of several mobile services at Yahoo, including the award-winning Yahoo Go 2.0. Christian is also the creator of Lifeblog, and a recognised industry innovator. He is a frequent conference speaker. His extensive experience and know-how allows him to ensure solutions meet the needs of the mass market, are scalable for the future and are rich in innovation. At Fjord Christian has been driving product strategy projects for mobile operators, has been advising the BBC on mobile strategy, and has consulted Nokia on strategic future service and UI solutions.

Pamela Garrett-Jones

CFO

Pamela Garrett-Jones is Fjord’s Chief Financial Officer. Pamela's first CFO position was with CHBI (latterly Razorfish) in London back in 2001. Following time spent with Magic4, Pamela joined Fjord as UK Finance Director back in 2002 shortly after the agency was founded. Pamela has seen Fjord grow to five offices and she is now responsible for controlling the group's finances.

Iñaki Amate

Regional Managing Director, Fjord Helsinki & Madrid

Iñaki started his career developing digital products and services in Finland in 1999 working for clients like Nokia and Vodafone. He worked as project manager, consultant and account manager for Satama and Morning, and pioneered the design of some of the first mobile concepts. He focuses in service design strategy for our clients. He has a BA in business and a MSc in economics and an MBA from the Helsinki School of Economics. Iñaki joined Fjord in September 2004 as Managing Director of the Finnish office.

Curt Collinsworth

Managing Director, Fjord Helsinki

Curt has over 15 years experience in digital design, branding and leadership. He started his career in Moscow, Russia in 1993 working for BBDO and McCann-Erickson. After several years there he moved back to the states and San Francisco and started his focus on digital design during the peaks and valleys of the dotcom explosion, during which time he worked for numerous agencies and had his own design company, Morphology. Curt then moved to Seattle to start a digital department within Publicis in the West focusing on business with T-Mobile. Curt then moved to Frog Design in Stuttgart, Germany as Creative Director and worked with clients such as Yello Strom and Nero developing highly usable, branded and unique experiences across multiple platforms including desktop, mobile and web.As Managing Director of Fjord's Helsinki office, he looks forward to bringing all this experience together, learning Finnish and getting to speak Russian again with our neighbors to the East.

Andy Goodman

Managing Director, Fjord Madrid

Over the course of his 13 years in digital design Andy has worked on a succession of groundbreaking products and services. The earliest mark he made was the creation of the first iTV services in the UK as Head of Design at Sky Interactive. After a couple of stints in the games industry Andy has focused on Mobile, working for companies such as Vodafone, Orange, O2 and Nokia. As an early member of Seren, Andy was one of the pioneers of the Service Design industry. Going beyond the interface to create service experiences, which shape the world in which people are beginning to live.

Nancy Birkhölzer

Joint Managing Director, Fjord Berlin

Nancy is co-Managing Director of Fjord GmbH. She holds an MA in Information and Interface Design and has more than 10 years of experience in strategy, concept and design of digital services (8 years in the mobile industry).
Nancy worked for 4 years as a User Experience Manager for Vodafone Global on the strategy, conception, design and specification of mobile services across mobile platforms. She led global innovation projects with Vodafone’s operating companies and managed user research projects across European markets.
After her Vodafone role Nancy joined Yahoo! Mobile where she held a key role in the team that developed Yahoo! Go.
Aside from her Managing Director responsibilities at Fjord Berlin, Nancy has lead the Fjord team working on cross-platform Nokia OVI services for the past 3 years and is responsible for managing innovation, quality and client relationships across projects.

Anna Kraft

Joint Managing Director, Fjord Berlin

Anna has over 10 years of experience in user experience design and research and holds an M.SC. in Cognitive Science with a major in Interaction Design. Anna worked for 4 years for Razorfish AB (later Creuna AB) as Information Designer, Experience Lead, and Group Lead. She then spent 3 years at Vodafone Global as User Experience Manager, working on specification, implementation, strategy and concept development for Vodafone’s User Experience roadmap. And before joining Fjord, Anna spent one year at Samsung Design Europe as User Research Manager, evaluating and researching European trends for Samsung HQ. Anna is now the co-Managing Director of Fjord GmbH and leads various client projects such as Yahoo! Mobile, SFR and LG E.

Chris Liu

Managing Director, Fjord London

Chris brings a decade of experience in designing interactive solutions. He spent 4 years designing mobile interfaces for Sony in the US and Germany before leaving to establish the Munich office for US based e-commerce consultancy Sapient. During his tenure at Sapient, Chris lead project teams delivering solutions for high profile clients like Staples, Deutche Telekom, T-Online and Vodafone. Before joining Fjord, Chris spent 4.5 years as Head of Human Interface Design group at Sony's European design centre in London. His responsibilities ranged from providing future concept product and service proposals to delivering some of the most iconic Sony products in history such as the BRAVIA television series as well as the NAV-U line of personal navigation products.

Prashant Agarwal

Managing Director, Fjord New York

Prashant has over 12 years' experience in desktop, web and mobile products. Before being tapped to open Fjord New York, he was Fjord’s Director of Product Strategy, where he helped clients develop a range of digital services from global mobile portals to social music services. Before Fjord, he was interim VP of Product at Refresh Mobile, an Accel Partners-backed startup. Prior to Refresh Mobile, he held a number of senior positions with Yahoo!. Previous experience also includes roles with Dow Jones, CNET and Beyond.com as well as launching Techdirt Wireless - a popular daily wireless industry news blog - and co-founding the early mobile multimedia innovator Stick Networks.