Copenhagen Area, Denmark
- Current
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- Freelance Strategy & Bizz Dev. Consultant at Egmont
- CEO & Partner at LeaderLab
- Past
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- Head of Strategic Development at The Danish Broadcasting Corporation
- Head of New Media Development at The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR)
- Partner at Runemedia
- Education
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- MBA, AVT, Copenhagen/Boston
- Information & Media Science, Aarhus University
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Sofus Midtgaard’s Summary
My name is Sofus Midtgaard. The last 12 years I’ve been working in the field of new media - with a special focus on how digital media transforms business, relations and organizations.
I am Founder and CEO of LeaderLab - a start-up company based in Copenhagen Denmark. We develop global products that helps leaders, employees and students develop personally and professionally through self-insight and group reflection.
I do selected consulting - primarily for media companies - in areas like Strategy development, Market insights, Change management, Innovation and Business development. If you need a fresh perspective on the challenges and opportunities of your company or organization please contact me.
From 2001-2008 I was Head of Corporate Strategic Development and Head of New Media Development at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR). Before this I was co-founder and partner at Runemedia an Internet consultancy company.
My educational background is from Information- & Media Science from Aarhus University. I finished an MBA in the summer 2006. I was born in 1972 and I live in the central part of Copenhagen.
Among many other things I was the initiator and co-founder of New Media Days - a yearly new media conference held in Copenhagen:
http://www.newmediadays.dk
Sofus Midtgaard’s Specialties:
Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Organizational development, Change Management, New Product Development/Innovation, User Experience, Design...
Sofus Midtgaard’s Experience
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Freelance Strategy & Bizz Dev. Consultant
Egmont
(Privately Held; Publishing industry)
December 2008 — Present (8 months)
To fund my start-up - LeaderLab - I work as free-lance Business Dev. consultant at Egmont Corporate Strategy. I'm heading a quite interesting global concept- & business development project...
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CEO & Partner
LeaderLab
(Management Consulting industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
I am Founder of - and CEO at LeaderLab, a start-up company based in Copenhagen Denmark. We are working towards the launch of a global service & social network focused around personal development & career planning as well as team development. We are looking for partners and investors to help us fund, develop and bring the product to the global market.
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Head of Strategic Development
The Danish Broadcasting Corporation
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
January 2006 — February 2008 (2 years 2 months)
As Head of Strategic Development in the Danish Broadcasting Corporation I worked closely with the Board of Directors as responsible for Market Analysis and Corporate Strategy.
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Head of New Media Development
The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR)
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; DR; Online Media industry)
August 2001 — February 2006 (4 years 7 months)
I headed a unit of two teams working with strategy and innovation. My responsibilities was DR's long term strategy within new media, new product development and forming R&D partnerships with external partners.
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Partner
Runemedia
(Online Media industry)
November 1996 — June 1999 (2 years 8 months)
Still a student at Arhus University, I co-founded the Internet Consultancy Company Runemedia - in partnership with 4 other students. Runemedia worked for clients like UNI2, Danske Bank, Zentropa og Nimbus Film.
Sofus Midtgaard’s Education
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MBA, AVT, Copenhagen/Boston
MBA , Strategy, Marketing, Negotiation, General Management, Financial Reporting and Control, Tech&Opp. , 2005 — 2006
We were taught in Copenhagen and Boston by experienced professors from international business schools like Harvard, Berkeley, Yale, Wharton, Tulane and Oxford.
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Information & Media Science, Aarhus University
Master (Not finished) , Media Markets, Media Law, Audience Research, Organisation Theory, Reception analysis, Technology , 1995 — 2000
Information and Media Science gave me a broad introduction to as different disciplines as Audience Research, Media Markets, Media Law and Regulation, Organisations theory, Technology history, Media Production, Programming, Design ect.
The primary value of the study looking back today was a strong focus on qualitative audience research - but also organization theory, have been highly usable.
I must stress that I never actually finished the last year of studies due to heavy workloads in a Internet company where I was co-founder and as a consequence of my job at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation.
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