BOLD and MEANINGFUL CHANGE MUST BE DRIVEN by DESIGN
That's why we're here.
Since 2019, our 300+ strategists, designers, and technologists have worked across disciplines and time zones to make bold change happen for the world's most ambitious companies.
How we see it
Simplicity is excellence
We bring direction and clarity to complexity through strategic insights and bold strategies.
There is a superior way
We discover and shape new ideas through innovation, creative problem-solving, and visionary pursuits.
It can be done
We make fast progress by bringing a firmly held belief and confidence in visions and values.
Clients, partners, friends
Across our 14 offices in 10 countries, we help global brands and brave start-ups make futures tangible, change possible, and visions happen. We'd love to see your logo on the list too.
Why Manyone?
Nordic roots, global teams, local presence
Drawing from our Nordic heritage, we champion a unique team-of-teams structure across borders, making an impact worldwide with local resonance and cultural nuances.
Strategy led by execution
Complexity rises and opportunities emerge faster than your strategy deck, so we find potential in hands-on insights and shape visions while building, testing and improving tomorrow's solutions.
Bespoke processes, custom collaboration
We blend the best from Agile, Design Thinking, and new ways of working into bespoke processes. Your perfect fit is found at the intersection between team setup, ambitions, and desired outcomes.
Strategy, design and technology intertwined
By mixing strategy, design, and technology in one seamless and fast process, we bring maximum impact to any collaboration or project.
Designing for sustainable growth
We design and innovate for growth, but caring for societies, future generations, and the planet is mandatory to excel beyond commercial prosperity.
Meet the Manyone Partners
Manyone is led by experienced strategy, design and technology executives, all with proven track records of helping businesses develop sustainable value. Feel free to reach out to any one of us.
Sofie Holstein-Homann
Global Managing Partner, Methodology Innovation
Helps businesses create and move towards aspirational visions for the future with a focus on insights and experimental business design. Led projects for Lloyds Bank, NTT, Samsung, Nordea, LEGO, Telenor.
Guido Woska
Chief Commercial Officer
20+ years of experience working at the intersection of strategy, design and technology to deliver sustainable experiences that translate into positive business impact. Guido has worked with clients such as Lufthansa Group, Deutsche Telekom, Vueling Airlines, Hyundai, IKEA, TSB Bank and many more.
Michelle Cole
Partner, Co-Head of Manyone OSL
Senior client director with solid experience from collaborating with major Norwegian and international brands. A strong commercial mind with a warm heart; balancing budgets and deadlines while taking care of talent and people. She has worked with clients such as SATS, Sunkost, Skagerak Energi, Askeladden & Co, Entur, NHO, Finans2, VARD and Red Cross.
Mads Riisager Gustafsen
Co-CEO
Helps clients devise and execute digital strategies, bringing a broad experience from management consulting and commercial management.
Jorge Hernandez
Global Managing Partner, Nordics
Expert creative technologist with significant experience advising clients on how to be first-movers and engage deeper with their users through tech.
Lasse Jensby Dahl
Chief Strategy Officer
Advises clients in business transformation and strategy while heading up Manyone. Lasse has led strategy and transformation programmes for some of the largest companies in the world.
David Keller
Global Managing Partner, Tel Aviv
Managing and leading the Tel Aviv office. Experienced design executive and entrepreneur, driven by a passion for technology, design, and everything in between. Building products, services, experiences and teams in EMEA for over 10 years.
Hannah Gutkauf
Global Managing Partner, Tech Innovation
Hannah is responsible for Manyone's emerging technology practice and leads strategic initiatives and global accounts for companies like IKEA, Microsoft, the World Bank Group and Novo Nordisk. Holding an MSc. in Information Technologies, specialising in Big Data Analysis and Cyberpsychology, she is at the forefront of emerging technology strategy, helping companies to develop and manage their future product and service portfolios.
Johanne Floris Christensen
Partner, Team Lead
With many years of experience as Client Lead and Business Director, Johanne is focusing on strong and impactful end-to-end digital deliveries for global companies.
David Fellah
Co-CEO, Founder
Seasoned design executive with a focus on building organisations that deliver world class experience design and human centred business. Co-founder and former CEO of Designit.
Rasmus Møller Sørensen
Chief Experience Officer
Creative strategist and culture-builder, focusing on the competencies and processes that make business ideas come true.
Adam Walker
Partner, Strategic Design Director, Head of Team Spain
Adam is a strategic designer who specialises in service design and ethnographic research techniques. With over ten years of multi-sector experience across industries such as mobility, automotive, e-commerce, and non-profit, he brings a wealth of experience in leading and delivering strategic design projects.
Jonas Smedegaard Buus
Global Partner, Head of Hybrid Branding
Cross-disciplinary designer and strategist leading clients from concept to launch. Led projects for Danske Bank, Volkswagen, Schneider Electric, Telenor.
Annelise Vedel
Chief Client Officer
Experienced client service director helping companies create and execute digital strategies and new business models. Worked with clients like Copenhagen Airport, Grundfos, Telia, Nets and OKQ8 Scandinavia.
Toke Grøfte
Partner, UX
Strategic UX designer, guiding clients from inception to launch. Worked with Telia, Radisson Blu, Q8, Saxo Bank and YouSee.
Ditte Graa Wulff
Partner, Team Co-Lead
More than 10 years of experience helping organisations move towards better futures.
Balances a core expertise in process design with an entrepreneurial mindset.
Ditte has worked across industries with clients in tech, insurance, cultural industries, education and pharma.
Guillermo Callau
Partner, Team Lead
Product strategist, guides projects from idea to production within the realms of mobility and industrial design. Worked with clients like Biomega, HAY, Veckia, and PSA Peugeot.
Jens Martin Skibsted
Global Partner, VP Foresight & Mobility
World-renowned designer, entrepreneur and design philosopher, creating visionary design concepts within urban mobility. Member of World Economic Forum’s think tank on mobility.
Hans-Henrik Sørensen
Global Partner
Digital, product and tech savvy design executive, engaged in account direction and solutions management. Led projects for NTT, AUDI, 1MORE, Danske Bank.
Aviv Grinboim
Partner, VP R&D
Seasoned mechanical engineer with endless passion to make things work and function better. Aviv heads Manyone TLV’s mechanical design and development projects and teams. He has worked in various technical fields such as robotics, sensors, and plastics injection, bringing significant experience from both the startup and corporate worlds.
Nicolas Francisco Arroyo Contreras
Partner
Cross-disciplinary futures designer and strategist using the power of Foresight & Design to help global businesses and organisations gain meaningful insight into the future.
Nicolas’s work aims at designing better futures for people and the planet by using the creative tensions laying at the intersection between business, design, strategy and culture.
Guy Hayat Haviv
Partner, Design Director
Guy heads the experience design team in Tel Aviv. A creative technologist, strategist and experience designer combined, Guy comes with a wealth of industry experience in building brands, experiences and products.
Sanne Prehn
Partner, Strategic Design Director, Team Lead
An experienced advisor specialised in digital development and user-centric communication. Sanne has a deep business understanding which she puts into play in projects that typically focus on business improvement and customer experience.
Søren Lehmann Poulsen
Global Managing Partner, M&A/Finance, Founder
Executive with expertise in the scaling of businesses through growth and acquisitions.
Anne Kyster Hvelplund
Partner, Strategic Design Director
Pragmatic and resourceful, Anne is a cornerstone in account and project management. She consistently ensures strong delivery by bringing the best out of a the collaboration between Manyone’s and the client’s team.
Kasper Rousøe
COO
A seasoned COO and CFO with extensive experience from both large corporations and fast startups. Kasper also served as the Global CFO at Designit from 2013 to 2018.
Etay Amir
Partner
Surfer, skater and design technologist, Etay leads complex projects and manufacturing challenges. He looks for ways to put Manyone on the front foot in regards to production technologies and emerging manufacturing methods.
Thomas Dolberg
Global Partner, Head of Hybrid Strategy
Helps clients create compelling business concepts and models with a focus on strategizing and process facilitation. Led projects for Vestas, Arla, Telenor and Solar.
Rune Ernst Toldam
Partner
Experienced cross-disciplinary futures designer and strategist helping global organisations and businesses explore future industry landscapes and translate opportunities into new meaningful products, services and experiences.
Nanna Engberg
Partner, UX Director
UX strategist, guiding clients to solve business and organisational problems with design and strategy.
Silja Nyhus
Partner, Innovation Strategist
Respected service and business designer with a heart for co-creation, facilitation, and leading creative processes in complex organisations. Worked with clients like the Statkraft, SmartCity Bærum, Norwegian Tax Authority, Norwegian Directorate of Health, Nye Veier and OBOS.
Jon Lollike
Global Managing Partner
Seasoned account executive, overseeing client services, operations, commercial negotiations and project execution.
Marie Kathrine Jensen
Partner, Strategic Design Director
Marie is an experienced strategist with a background in UX and service design. Working at the intersection of business transformation, design, and strategy, she guides global companies towards lasting change.
Jon Styrkestad Haukaas
Partner, Co-Head of Manyone OSL
Jon is an expert brand strategist passionate about creating strategies that connect the business to people, and their needs. He leads cross-disciplinary teams through strategic transformations and cultural change programmes. He has worked with clients such as DNB, Statnett, and VARD.
Maiken Hauknes Braarud
Partner, Innovation Strategist
Experienced cross-disciplinary designer and innovation strategist with a strong focus on creating innovative solutions by helping businesses merge strategy and execution. Worked with clients like IKEA, FINN.no, Vipps, Møller Digital, Schibsted and Telenor.
Hendrik von Spreckelsen
Partner, Strategic Design Director, Head of Team Germany
Cross-disciplinary design director with a deep understanding of users, business, and technology. Helps companies create strategies and translate them into experiences. Worked with clients like Telekom, Lufthansa, Boehringer-Ingelheim and Toyota.
Asger Østerbæk
Partner, Strategic Design Director
Digital strategy and design thinking expert with extensive experience in identifying key challenges and defining new strategic opportunities. Strong in leadership, research, analysis, concept ideation and innovation.
Alex Hills
Partner, Programme & Operations Director, Head of Team London
Alexandra is versatile Programme Director with +15 years’ experience. Skilled at efficient project management and finance budgeting, she is specialised in taking a solution-based approach for meeting project requirements and exceeding customer expectations.
Anna Kristina Borg
Partner, Head of Team
Entrepreneur and leader Anna leads the Manyone teams in Malmö and Gothenburg by challenging assumptions about the business and organisation. By making the future tangible, we can align and make decisions. Through being strategic, we can make progress. And we will be guided by data and human creativity.
Therese Strange-Obel Johansen
Global Managing Partner, Group General Counsel
With +10 years of experience advising on legal matters in the strategic design consultancy- and tech industry, Therese is passionate about helping companies reach their full potential using her knowledge of how legal and business understandings intersect.
Silas Warren
Partner, Creative Director
Silas is the Creative Director of our New York office, and an early pioneer of human behaviour and UX within the convergence of physical and digital worlds. He works directly with clients such as Magic Leap, Walmart, and Niantic, collaborating with them to identify opportunities and achieve tangible benefits from this new digital revolution. He maintains close partnerships in the XR space, with a particular emphasis on assisting businesses in leveraging emerging technology crucial for their future success.
Kate McElroy
Global Managing Partner, Europe (Head of EUX)
With over 10 years of experience in creative strategy and research design. Kate blends skills from brand planning, communications theory and digital experience design to look at problems from a different perspective. A deep listener, energetic collaborator and radical optimist, she helps shape ideas for global brands, category challengers, and non-profits.
Gert Fabricius Jørgensen
Partner, Technology Director
With over 20 years of experience as CTO and Software Developer, Gert is an expert in delivering technical advice and guiding clients in the software delivery process.
Katrine Rafn Knudsen
Partner, Head of Experience, Nordics
Working at the intersection between the physical and digital, Kathrine leads cross-disciplinary teams through large innovation and development projects from the first insight to final implementation – delivering meaningful, user-centric experiences across industries and business ecosystems.
Mikkel Stange
Partner, Global Strategic Design Director, Head of Team
Mikkel has 10+ years of experience working with strategy and strategic-creative concepts for many businesses. He focuses on identifying opportunities where design can move businesses towards their goals. Mikkel holds an MSc. in Marketing from Copenhagen and Toronto and has design consultancy experience within the Health/Medico, Telco, Retail, Finance/Insurance, and Energy/Environment industries.
Elad Yanay
Partner, COO
Seasoned operator with more than a decade of experience managing teams and projects.
Boaz Zemer
Partner, Design Director
As the industrial design director at Manyone TLV, Boaz works with a team of designers to develop wholesome user experiences and beautiful designs for physical products. Since 2014, he has led strategic and significant projects for clients in the fields of consumer electronics, telecom, and medical technology.
Nikolaj Stausbøl
Partner, Creative Technologist
“Staus” is a technology artist and creative developer. He co-leads our enterprise XR service lines, advising and serving clients to help them understand the value of XR to their organisations, the what, where, and how. As a tool agnostic, he takes projects and prototypes into uncharted waters from concept through production at high speed – but always choosing the best tool with the highest impact.
Klaus Silberbauer
Global Partner, Head of Digital Transformation
Experienced creative, manager and strategic UX designer. Guides clients within concept development and digital strategy.
Morten Johnstad-Møller
Global Managing Partner, IT
Digitally focused executive and strategist. Advising clients on digital strategies, creation of business cases and feasibility analyses.
Michael Sylva
CFO
Michael Sylva has worked in finance and management for 20 years in companies such as PwC, Vestas and Designit. In the latter, he has held the position as Global Head of Finance and Operations for 4 years before being promoted to CFO/COO, a role which he held prior to joining Manyone.
Omri Bar Zeev
Partner and Creative Director
Experienced creative director helping companies create and execute physical and digital products, strategies and new business models. Worked with clients like Karcher, Amdocs, Mobileye, Nike and Stratasys.
Patrik Svensson
Partner, Team Co-Lead
With 20 years of experience working in key technology lead roles, Patrik helps clients navigate technology ecosystems while making sure internal processes and tool chains are up to date.
Christian Brandstrup
Partner, Strategic Design Director
Christian has more than 15 years of experience consulting and working in brand strategies and transformation programs across various sectors – both B2B and B2C. He helps clients identify growth challenges and commercial opportunities, in the intersection between positioning, brand strategy, value proposition, and concept development.