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WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior consultant CORE CHANGE
2024 - Present (Sweden)

Business & Design Process Leader
INTER IKEA
2024 - 2025 (Sweden)

Better business Leadership program
FUTURE NAVIGATORS
2023 - 2024 (Sweden)

Product Manager | Home Smart
IKEA OF SWEDEN
2020 - 2023 (Sweden)

Principal designer & Co-founder of the design studio
SIGMA CONNECTIVITY
2015 - 2020 (Sweden)

Senior industrial designer
SONY
2012 - 2015 (Sweden + UK)

Senior industrial designer
SONY ERICSSON
2006 - 2012 (Sweden)

Industrial Designer
PHILIPS DESIGN
(Paris, France) 2003 – 2006

RECOGNITIONS

Red Dot design award SONY Smartwatch2 (2014)
IF design award SONY Smartwatch2 (2014)
Good design award SONY ERICSSON XPERIA NEO (2011)
Red Dot design award SONY ERICSSON W902 (2009)
IF design award SONY ERICSSON W902 (2009)
IF design award SONY ERICSSON T250 (2008)
Observeur du design award DECATHLON Elops bicycle city range (2005)

EDUCATION

Master's degree in industrial design management. Graduating with the highest honours.
Institut Supérieur de Design / Rubica (Valenciennes, France) September 2003

Baccalauréat S / High school degree in science and technology (Graduating with honors) LICP (Tourcoing, France) June 1998

20+ Years of design

7 Design awards

Reaching over 20 million users

Collection of logos from various brands including IKEA, Jabra, Medtronic, Adero, Ascom, Beyond Gravity, Philips, SCA, Sony, Decathlon, Doro, E-On, Sony Ericsson, Spotify, Ericsson, Facebook, and Intel, set against a black background.

Testimonies

  • Paulina Welander / Digital Product Leader at IKEA of Sweden

    "I am happy to have had the pleasure to work with Ben in different positions over the years. His capability to see opportunities and visualize them in a vivid and enthusiastic way is extraordinary. With his true to heart designer skills, his energy and his strong natural creativity he can move mountains - alongside a team. With a drive to always incorporate sustainability focus, he is innovative and a couple of steps ahead. Furthermore, I appreciate a Ben as a team player, always bringing a smile and positive energy! "

  • Emanuel Miličević / User experience manager IKEA

    “I had the pleasure of working with Benjamin, or Ben, as part of the Home Smart team. Ben is a talented and dedicated individual with great knowledge of product development, industrial design, and sustainability. His amazing sketches always helped us visualize and get the team on the same page. As shown within Smart Connectivity team, Ben is very aware of the market trends, competition, user needs, and what it takes to create a successful product. He is a strong collaborator and builds positive relationships with colleagues and clients. I strongly recommend Ben as your next colleague. He will be a valuable person to any team. Additionally, working with Ben is always fun and enjoyable. You can be sure that you will have a great laugh with him around.”

  • Regina Andersson / Senior Director, Head of Strategic Partnerships at ERICSSON

    “Benjamin is a true visionary, champion of consumer needs and human centered design. He is a professional and expert in his field, the one you can trust would understand your business needs and design the best solution to meet your company business objectives and delight end users. He is capable of setting strategic direction and run tactical execution of design projects within complex multinational organisation, managing multiple stakeholders. He has proven track record of designing complete user experience, not just HW design with multiple prestigious industry awards for his work. Great team player, with can do attitude and positive energy, he is a great addition to any team. I recommend him strongly for senior positions within design, e.g. art director or similar.”