Principal Product Designer with a focus on creating great user experiences for FinTech products and services. Own design studio in San Francisco, California, then Copenhagen, Denmark – now remote. Concept development and hands on execution for companies such as Apple in California and Google Ventures – as well as bitcoin and blockchain companies such as River Financial, Spiral, Kraken, Chainalysis, Stellar, Blockstack and Bitcoin Suisse. Product- and Design Director for a set of European FinTech companies – solid experience with team building, management and leadership. Able to communicate with all levels of senior management. Comfortable articulating the rationale behind design decisions – and able to discuss that rationale. Participated in a series of tech startups. Jury member for three consecutive years at Creative Circle Award, the largest creative award in Scandinavia. Examiner at Danish School of Media and Journalism. Examiner at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts- Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK). External Lecturer at Kolding School of Design. Recently received a design grant from Spiral (Block), researching novel approaches to Private Key Management for bitcoin. The research, New mnemonics, was later published in Bitcoin Magazine. Design grant https://medium.com/@thorbjoernkoenig Portfolio https://www.behance.net/thorbjoernkoenig