Mar 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

• Decarbonising homes. Faster.
• First, we made the process to get a heat pump installed much smoother for everyone, incl. ourselves.
• Then, we honed in on tradespeople.
• Backed by Lowercarbon, Norrsken VC, Partech, Foundamental, MCJ Collective, Xoogler Ventures and wonderful angels.

Aug 2021 – Dec 2021 · 4 mos · Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

• Part-time lecturer for the "Managing Sustainability" course.
• Teaching what I've learnt at the intersection of climate, IT and business.

Feb 2021 – Sep 2021 · 7 mos

• Electricity Maps (formerly Tomorrow) builds tech products to empower organisations and people to understand and reduce their climate impact.
• Electricity Maps is an open-source project that provides hour-by-hour insights into the carbon intensity of electricity of over 200 regions. Organisations purchase access to our API.
• I was hired as the sole full-time employee after the two cofounders. We built a consumer app (a carbon footprint tracker), and then a carbon accounting SaaS before returning to the original project, Electricity Maps.
• Some of the things that I've picked up along the way:
• Financing:
• Took part in the VC fundraising (before we decided to focus on self-financing)
• Applied for and obtained over 2.9MM DKK in public and research grants
• The organisation has a longer runway than when I joined and is on a credible path to profitability
• Startup operations:
• Hiring 10 people
• Owner of HR, office, legal, and accounting processes
• Product:
• Working alongside ≈9 product and engineering peers, often as the only person with a non-technical background
• Responsible for the marketing and launch of two tech products
• Climate:
• Obtained deep understanding of climate change drivers and realistic paths for humanity to avoid a really bad time #LawsOfPhysics
• Obtained deep understanding of corporate sustainability reporting, strategies and challenges related to these, incl. Science-Based Targets, GHG Protocol and CDP application processes
• Obtained deep understanding of carbon emission factors and their nuances
• Obtained good understanding of electricity procurement for sustainability purposes

Sep 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 3 mos · Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

• Doing everything in my power to fight humanity's biggest threat.
• I like to discuss climate change based on facts, especially looking at societal costs of emission reductions. For this reason, I've focused on getting a sufficiently high carbon tax in Denmark.
• I've been described by a politician as a "carbon tax lobbyist" and by others as a "a badger that bites until it crunches". I've also been described as an "edgy climate activist trolling on Twitter" by Arla (one of Denmark's top CO2 emitter)'s PR boss.
• My SoMe posts against greenwashers have been used as objective for large corporations' sustainability strategies as an outcome to avoid.
• Some achievements:
• Getting the world's first carbon tax on agriculture sector by 2030
• Getting one of the world's highest carbon taxes by 2030 (159€/tCO₂): https://www.weforum.org/videos/denmark-proposes-corporate-carbon-tax
• Rallying all Danish green NGOs behind carbon taxes: https://www.dn.dk/nyheder/18-ngo-med-faelles-forslag-til-gron-genstart-af-danmark/
• Rallying most Danish youth political parties behind carbon taxes: https://www.information.dk/debat/2020/05/blaa-roede-ungdomspartier-faelles-opraab-klimakrisen-loeses-indfoer-co2-afgift
• Rallying 69 green entrepreneurs behind carbon taxes: https://www.altinget.dk/energi/artikel/69-groenne-ivaerksaettere-til-mette-frederiksen-vi-kan-ikke-leve-op-til-klimamaal-uden-hoejere-afgifter
• Rallying 300+ scientists in Denmark behind carbon taxes, among others 7 former chairs of the Danish Economic Councils: https://politiken.dk/debat/art8031619/299-forskere-i-opr%C3%A5b-til-Folketinget-Danmark-b%C3%B8r-indf%C3%B8re-en-klimaskat-nu
• Writing a lot of op-eds in major Danish media, appearing on TV and on radio.

Aug 2018 – Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

• A company I founded to work on and invest in projects that fit at least two of these 3 conditions:
• it's fun
• it's financially worthwhile
• I learn something
• Successfully exited geowiz.tech in 2022, where I built with two friends a tool to help micromobility companies manage their maps.
• On most of the other projects I'm happy that it was fun and that I learnt something 😉

Aug 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr · Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark

• Getting back on my feet after a burnout.
• Helped large and fast-growing companies to use data to automate and improve their marketing.
• Referred 3 Googlers.

Oct 2017 – May 2018 · 7 mos · Copenhagen Area, Denmark

• Lix was a Danish edtech startup with $7.5m funding from leading Danish investors such as Anders Holch Povlsen, David Helgason & Tommy Ahlers (2018). Lix was focused on providing digital higher education textbooks.
• I led the B2C marketing and sales team and was part of the management team.
• Learnt a life lesson by burning out real bad.

Oct 2015 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Copenhagen Area, Denmark

• Part of the 6-man team that made Uber become so big in Copenhagen that we had to shut it down.
• I led the efforts related to existing drivers: retention, quality, safety, partnerships, new products.
• Yes, it was as extreme as portrayed from the outside.

Jan 2015 – Oct 2015 · 9 mos

• Helped organisations from startups to multinationals understand how humans are consuming media and make purchase decisions. Often it resulted in these organisations spending more money on online advertising.
• Received 56 peer awards
• Referred 6 Googlers and more than 10 interns
• Youngest full time hire in the Nordics
• Fastest promotion in the Nordics ever

May 2014 – Jan 2015 · 8 mos

Jun 2013 – Apr 2014 · 10 mos

May 2011 – Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Dec 2006 – Jan 2011 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

• I started as 13 years old to explore the world of work.
• Kunde & Co: Project Assistant - Dec 2010-Jan 2011 - Copenhagen
• Fabrikators: Sales & Marketing Assistant (Part-time) - Mar 2008-Dec 2010 - Copenhagen
• GI40Hermes: Assistant Coach (Part-time) - Aug 2008-Jun 2010 - Copenhagen
• Kvann: Plant Collector & Tourist Guide - Summer 2008 - Greenland
• BLAEST: Test Engineer Assistant Intern - Summer 2007 - Viborg
• Risø National Laboratory: Research Assistant Intern - Summer 2006 - Roskilde