Mads Kjøller Damkjær

Mads Kjoeller Damkjaer (born 4 April 1975) is a Danish industrial designer,[1] strategist and entrepreneur.[2] A double gold winner at Red Dot Design Awards, If Design Awards, D&AD Awards and Creative Circle Awards. Married to designer and entrepreneur Sidsel Kjøller Damkjær. He was the managing partner at the design and innovation agency Goodmorning Technology[3] (2004-2013) in Copenhagen, London, New York (2008–2010) and Hong Kong (2010–2011)[4] and has founded or co-founded several companies such as Contxt (2002), the Copenhagen Parts[5] (2009) transportation and life style bike parts, PART (2007) and Future fwd (2012). As an investor he established the impact venture company Tomorrow Projects in San Francisco in 2011. He is an adviser and board member at several Start-up Companies as well as organisations as the Danish Design Association and Companies such as the architecture firm SHL/Schmidt Hammer Lassen in Denmark, Singapore, London and China. Mads has had leading roles in managing consulting firms as Implement Consulting Group and PA Consulting Group as Head of Innovation & Strategy and co-owner of the company, having worked out of London since 2014. He worked for RADI Designers and Robert Stadler in 2003 in Paris and is educated from the Danish Design School in Copenhagen (1999–2004), has studied part of MBA at AVT Business School (2012-2013) and has received certificates from Stanford University (2013-2015), Yale School of Business (2012) and Harvard Business School (2013). In May 2010 he was announced one of the 100 best business people under 35 yrs in the field of innovation in Denmark[6] by Berlingske Business. Kjoeller Damjaer developed the Creative Leadership Impact Framework (CLIF) in 2014, an assessment and developing method for leaders and coined the term LeadTech as a term applied to leadership technology tools in 2010. Mads Kjoeller Damkjaer has won several strategy, innovation and leadership awards. On 17 November 2011 Mads was nominated with the Award by The Danish Design Counsel as one of the greatest talents in Scandinavia.[7] In 2012 he received the Rising Star Award in New York, US. He lived in California ( Los Angeles and San Francisco) part of 2016.

Designs edit

Mads Kjoeller Damkjaer has managed design for brands such as Luceplan, Erik Jørgenen, Fritz Hansen and Sony Ericsson. Some of the most known designs include the “Lightscape" lamp for Louis Poulsen [8] and the Bike Porter for Copenhagen Parts. Goodmorning Technology's work has been exhibited internationally such as at Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum[9] in New York City and at the World Expo 2010[10] in Shanghai.

Awards and recognition edit

References edit

  1. ^ Ugens profil danishdesignassociation.com [permanent dead link] Profil from DDA website
  2. ^ Berlingske [dead link]
  3. ^ Goodmorning Technology shift.jp.org January 2010
  4. ^ Goodmorning Technology danishdesignassociation.com 2011 [permanent dead link] Article from DDA website
  5. ^ Archived copy Archived 2017-04-30 at the Wayback Machine From Ffffound website
  6. ^ "Mads Kjøller Damkjær blandt 100 ledelsestalenter". Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2012. Article from The Danish Design Association website
  7. ^ To DDA medlemmer faar designraadets priser danishdesignassociation.com [permanent dead link] Article from DDA website
  8. ^ "En-us Louis Poulsen". Archived from the original on 26 August 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
  9. ^ "National Design Triennial: Why Design Now? | Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York". Archived from the original on 25 January 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2012. Cooper Hewitt
  10. ^ http://en.expo2010.cn/