Jonas Kjellberg

Founding Member of Skype & CEO of Gourmetli

Jonas Kjellberg is the co-creator and former managing director of Skype. A serial entrepreneur, he has served as CEO and founder of Campuz Mobile (acquired by Vodafone) and Optimal Telecom, (part of Tele2). Jonas has also been vice president of Bertelsmann for Lycos Europe, CEO and partner of Wyatt Media group and head of the online business area for Investment AB Kinnevik.

Jonas Kjellberg

Founding Member of Skype & CEO of Gourmetli

Jonas Kjellberg is the co-creator and former managing director of Skype. A serial entrepreneur, he has served as CEO and founder of Campuz Mobile (acquired by Vodafone) and Optimal Telecom, (part of Tele2). Jonas has also been vice president of Bertelsmann for Lycos Europe, CEO and partner of Wyatt Media group and head of the online business area for Investment AB Kinnevik.

Biography

He also founded Player.io (which sold to Yahoo) and was Chairman of the board of iCloud, which sold to Apple. When not running companies, Jonas lectures at Stanford University and Stockholm School of Economics on the topics of entrepreneurship and how to create a winning sales culture.

Jonas talks focus on how product, sales, and profitability must interact in order to create a successful business. Organizations today face new demands as customer satisfaction is becoming more and more transparent with users increasingly sharing their experiences.

When not lecturing, Jonas is an avid investor and coaches entrepreneurs through BCG Digital Ventures, a corporate investment and incubation firm, and his company Gear Up Ventures, which implements the innovation and entrepreneurship model set out in his book Gear Up.

In addition to co-authoring 2 books he is currently working on two new books about Social and Creative Entrepreneurship.

Jonas has an MBA from Uppsala University and an engineering degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Topics

  • Business Creation, Growth & Success
  • Managing Digital Transformations,Disruption, and Innovation
  • A Comedy of Errors: VC’s, The Tech World, and the many Failures that Lead to My Success
  • Social & Creative Innovation: New Business Models Foe A New

Publications

  • Gear Up: Test Your Business Model Potential and Plan Your Path to Success (with Lena Ramfelt and Tom Kosnik) (2014)
  • Business Creation (Based On The Gear Up Framework) (with Lena Ramfelt and Tom Kosnik) (2013)
  • Gear Up, Your Best Business Idea Ever (with Lena Ramfelt and Tom Kosnik) (2011)

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