CEO Today Europe Awards

www.ceotodaymagazine.com 88 CEO Today Europe Awards 2018 the united kingdom MATS STIGZELIUS Co-Founder and CEO of TAKUMI ABOUT MATS STIGZELIUS Mats Stigzelius is co-founder and CEO of Takumi, a leading global Instagram Influencer Platform. Since its creation in early 2015, Takumi has worked with over 600 brands across more than 2,000 campaigns. Alongside Takumi, Mats is also a partner at Rainmaking – a seed capital investment and innovation company, launching its own start-ups and helping to grow existing early stage start-ups. His previous experience includes developing brand strategies, implementing business plans and arranging financing for companies across a number of industries in Europe and North America, including Retail, Consumer Goods, Financial Services, Media and Telecoms sectors as a strategy consultant at McKinsey and as a VP in a Private Equity firm. Mats graduated from Manchester University with a Masters in Aerospace Engineering, with first class honours in 2000. FIRM PROFILE Influencer marketing has grown significantly over the last few years, becoming one of the fastest growing areas of advertising and reaching over billion dollars in annual spend already (just on Instagram). In the last three years Takumi has grown to become the most active dedicated Instagram influencer/ content creator platform in the world, where over 600 brands have used Takumi’s managed service technology platform across 2,000 campaigns, creating over 20,000 pieces of bespoke branded content. Takumi has offices in London, Berlin, New York and Reykjavik. E: Mats@Takumi.com W: www.takumi.com