- The quickest and most addictive way to discover news
The team
Andreas Thorstensson
Founder, member of the board and lead developer
Andreas has been obsessed by finding the latest news that matters, first, since he started using the Internet in 1993. It has taken him from IRC to blogs, from RSS to social media. He felt that the timing was perfect to apply this to real-time social sharing and started developing the core product two years ago. He is in charge of the product, concept and the technical platform and is in direct contact with developers and designers on a daily basis to perfect the service.Andreas is a web developer and former Counter-Strike world champion. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential innovators of electronic sports. He founded SK Gaming, the most successful professional gaming organization to date and developed SK- Gaming.com, the largest eSports community in the world. Prior to working with SK he founded and developed SPRAYdio, an early streaming music service and community. The idea for Njuice came from his initial startup, Geekboys, one of the first RSS aggregators that launched in 1999.
Oscar Stibeck
Partner and chairman of the board
Oscar handles all economic and administrative duties at Njuice. This includes investor relations, business strategies and negotiating strategic partnerships. Oscar is also engaged in helping with the forming of the concept of Njuice and is up to date on every process in the company.
Prior to working with Njuice Oscar worked for Bwin (2008) as a quality assurance engineer, received a Bachelor of Science at Lund University (2007) and worked for Paradox Entertainment.
Ted Persson
Partner and member of the board
Ted Persson is a Stockholm based creative director and interactive strategist (and struggling beard grower). Persson is a co-founder of leading interactive agency Great Works, where he holds the position as Chief Creative Officer, overseeing work from the agency's offices in Stockholm, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai. Persson's work for clients such as Absolut Vodka, IKEA, Electrolux and H&M has been heavily awarded. With 100 employees around the globe, Great Works is ranked among the top digital agencies in the world and was awarded ‘insurgent of the year’ by Adweek in 2010.
In addition to his position at Great Works, Persson is involved in the Swedish startup community, both as an entrepreneur and adviser.
Persson was awarded one of 2010’s ‘Super Talents’ by Veckans Affärer magazine (A Swedish equivalent of Forbes Magazine), was ranked 4th most influential creative in Swedish advertising in 2009 by leading Swedish advertising weekly Resumé, and is part of global creative think tank Creative Social. Ted also is on the advisory board of Berghs School of Communication, is a frequent conference speaker and has both judged and been awarded in most international and national advertising award shows.
Gustav von Sydow
Partner and member of the board
Gustav von Sydow is the CEO and founder of Burt, a developer of software and services that make online advertising more clever, creative and effective. Prior to founding Burt, Gustav worked as an award-winning advertising strategist, creating campaigns, websites and applications for start-ups as well as the Fortune 500 companies. He is a frequent speaker at conferences for advertising and internet technology, and has presented at Cannes Lions, Web 2.0, Techcrunch50, DEMO and Eurobest.
Carl Johan Grandinson
Partner and member of the board
Carl Johan is co-founder of Tre Kronor Media & Advertising a communication agency for performance based marketing, awarded "best media agency" in Sweden both in 2010 and 2011. Carl Johan holds a MSc Mechanical Engineering (2000) from the Royal Institute of Technology majoring in Media Management from Stockholm School of Economics, including exchange studies in Marketing at Stanford University (1998). Carl Johan helped to build TradeDoubler (Listed 2005, TRAD) during seven years as the first employee in 1999 where he held positions such as lnt’l roll-out for 10 subsidiaries (2000-), Managing Director French market (2001-), Managing Director Sweden (2004-) and regional director (2006-07) managing 8 markets with 140 employees. As non-executive Carl Johan has founded, seed-invested and advised several successful start-ups within the internet and e-commerce space.
Jimmy Poopuu
Partner and lead designer
A pixel shovelling and tech savvy design geek with over a decade of experience designing for global brands in digital channels. Currently got an unsaturated passion for creating delightful interfaces and thrilling iOS applications.
Marthin Freij
Partner and lead mobile developer
Passionate agile developer and technical trainer with over 10 years experience from projects within bank, finance and media.