Jens Martin Skibsted


Jens Martin Skibsted is a Danish designer, entrepreneur and author. He is a partner at Strategic Design Group. He has founded or co-founded companies such as Biomega, Skibsted Ideation, Actics, KiBiSi and Ogojiii.
He has won several international awards and holds a number of board memberships.

Career

In 1998 Skibsted co-founded Biomega with former university classmate Elias Grove Nielsen. In 1998 Skibsted Ideation was founded. Actics was founded in 2005 by Skibsted and economist, Nicolai Peiterson. In 2009 Skibsted co-founded KiBiSi with Lars Holme Larsen and Bjarke Ingels. In 2015 Skibsted founded the printed design magazine Ogojiii in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2018 Skibsted was a co-founder of Strategic Design Group alongside Søren Lehmann Poulsen and ex-Designit partners David Fellah and Lasse Jensby Dahl. In September 2019 Strategic Design Group was transformed into Manyone. Signaling that the bureau is one joint consultancy with one culture and one process.

Board memberships and Think tanks

Jens Martin Skibsted was born in Sønderborg, Denmark. Shortly after his birth his father was killed in a car crash. He mainly grew up in Francophone countries. After spending a year in Paris, he founded the Av-Art art association in Copenhagen. It was a combined art gallery, record label and venue for experimental music and poetry readings.
He then returned to Paris to study at the École supérieure d'études cinématographiques film school, graduating in 1994. After that he went back to Copenhagen to study philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, finishing his bachelor's degree in 1998. After that he took a degree in Business Management from University of California, Berkeley in 2000.

Writing

Skibsted is the author of three books, Kavesom, Instant Icon & Tilbage til virkeligheden. He regularly contributes with blogs and opinion pieces to international publications such as Huffington Post, Fast Company, World Economic Forum and Havard Business Review. He occasionally writes for Danish business publication Børsen.