Core team & extended family
Super Powers: Business Logic Automation, Design thinking, Innovation Management, Innovation Governance Design, Business Transformation, Organisational Development, Innovation Strategy, Innovation Portfolio Management, Business Model Development, Professional Training Development, End-to-End Process/Governance Design, Mixed Method Analysis (qualitative and quantitative), User Studies, Design of Experiments
Ole Kjeldal, PhD
Business designer
Ole specialises in Design Thinking, Innovation Management, Business Model Innovation, and Tech. Transformation. For more than 12 years, he has been delivering governance, analyses, capabilities and innovations for "those who lead your transformation and innovation". Ole combines hard data and creative design to create data-driven, sustainable and disruptive solutions.
Ole holds a PhD in Design Thinking and Disruptive Innovation from DTU and Stanford University, and he is a highly experienced business designer, entrepreneur and educator. Also, he is the founder of Ampersand.
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Mail: okj@amper.dk
Ana Maria d’Auchamp
Design & Innovation Evangelist
Ana has an extensive multicultural & multilingual background having lived and worked globally. She has more than 10 years experience in designing for human-centred experiences involving complex product/service systems. Ana uses her strategic innovation mindset to transform organisations by aligning the end consumer needs & company priorities into a symbiotic relationship fit for a customer focused future.
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Super Powers: Customer Experience Design (CX), User Experience Design (UX), Design Thinking, Co-Creation, Digital Design, SCRUM, Front-End Development, Visualisation, Graphics Design, Visual Facilitation
Robert Sigaard
UX CX and Visualisation Wizard
Robert specialises in developing visual communication through illustration, graphics and digital interfaces. As a UX & CX designer he is focused on making engaging user interfaces and superior end-to-end customer experience by involving users throughout the development process. With a background in illustration and digital design, Robert is focused on seamless storytelling and visualisation to make complexity understandable and creative. Robert has a master in digital design and communication from ITU, and a Ba. in illustration.
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Mail: rsa@amper.dk
Bence Kovács
Swiss-army Programmer
Bence is a Game Programmer, who specialises in Tool and Audio programming for games - and in learning and applying anything needed in terms of programming, that a project needs to get done. Bence’s experience in backend development of business applications, empowers him with an insight into the complexities of building robust and performant applications. He has a keen eye for efficiency and constantly improves on his workflow, and the algorithms and systems he develops.
Bence holds a master’s degree in Game Technology from ITU, and on the side of his daily work, he pursues a second master’s degree in Sound and Music Computing. Read more about Bence on LinkedIn
Super Powers: Open Innovation Management, Technology Scouting, The Inner Workings of Silicon Valley, Partnership Management, Network Management, Global Innovation Partnerships, Start-up Collaboration, Start-up Garages, Innovation Acceleration
Klaus børme Wehage
Start-up ecosystem Adviser
Klaus specialises in open innovation ecosystems, collaboration between established organisations and start-ups, and technology scouting. Since 2013, he has been partnering international organisations e.g. investment banks, tech companies and accelerators with players from the Silicon Valley ecosystem. Klaus relentlessly spreads best practices for ecosystem collaboration, to ensure high-value partnerships with measurable outcomes. Klaus holds an MBA from Hult Business School and has helped more than 500 founders and executives and more than 35 countries.
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Super Powers: Innovation Management, Innovation Governance Design, Innovation team training, Teaching, Coaching, Service innovation design, Organisational Development, Innovation Strategy, Business Model Development, Tech
Erik Hallgren, PHD
Innovation Whip
Erik specialises in Service, Product, and Business Model Innovation and how to integrate and manage these in an organisation. For more than 15 years Erik has trained, facilitated, provoked and lead “those who do innovation”. Erik combines theory, practice, and humour to move organisations. Erik uses innovation standards, board games, hands on tools, design sprints etc. to fit the need. Erik holds a PhD in Employee Driven Innovation from DTU, a MMT/MBA and is a highly experienced innovation whip; pushing the team and organisation to forge ahead.
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Super Powers: Business Logic Automation, Innovation Management, Innovation Governance Design, Business Transformation, Organisational Development, Innovation Strategy, Business Model Development, Quantitative analysis, Econometrics, Big Data, Applied Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, Agile Software Development
Thomas Tandrup, PhD
data wrangler
Thomas specialises in Big Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithm Design, and Organisational Analysis. For more than 8 years, he has worked with "those who do your innovation" - as a researcher in innovation management, and as a serial entrepreneur within the digital area. Thomas holds a PhD from the Technical University of Denmark.
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Super Powers: Innovation Management, Business Transformation, Organisational Development, Innovation Strategy, Innovation Portfolio Management, Business Model Development, Predictive Analytics, Horizon Scanning, Market Analysis, Technology Outlook, Mixed Method Analysis (qualitative and quantitative)
JEsper villadsen
business & Technology analyst
Jesper specialises in market analysis, technology outlooks, early impact assessment of innovation concepts and organisational analysis. For his entire career, he has been working with "using hard data to set the direction for your innovation" in public and private organisations. Jesper holds a M.Sc. International Business & Politics from CBS.
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Super Powers: Business Transformation, Organisational Development, Innovation Strategy, Business Model Development, Best Practice Analysis, Mixed Method Analysis (qualitative and quantitative), Qualitative analysis, Policy analysis, Innovation Policy Development, Industry Sector Analysis, Impact Assessment
Gwendolyn Carpenter
Innovation ecosystem analyst
Gwen specialises in policy evaluations, impact assessments and best practice studies within the context of technology and our future societies. For more than 16 years, she has worked with "those who sets the frames and rules for your transformation" - In Denmark, in Europe, and internationally. Gwen is an Ethnologist and holds a M.Sc. in Media and Communications from London School of Economics.
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Emil Leisner
CG One-Man Army
Emil is a 3D Digital Artist with a passion for Video-Games. Since playing around in various level-editors at a young age, he has steered his education and professional life toward the 3D world. Emil has taken a generalist approach to 3D Art, educating himself in various areas of both Game- and Movie/TV-production. Armed with a broad knowledge of the 3D Arts and a lot of ducks (oh god, that's a lot of ducks), he is ready to face most 3D Challenges head-on.
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Carolina Navarro
Ampers Little Helper
Carolina is a MSc Design and Innovation student at DTU. She is forever curious about the multidisciplinary nature of design work and how much there is to learn from all fields during each design project. Having lived in different countries throughout her life, she likes to learn how and why people behave differently and find commonalities through design. She is passionate about sustainability and circularity and how design can help solve these and other systemic issues.
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