b3njamin.ai

Work.

A decade in commercial roles where the product was technical and the buyer wasn't. Five years at Google in Dublin. A year and a half at AdRoll before that. Three years co-founding Ankra in Stockholm after.

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Google.

Managed Sweden's largest advertising book of business as the youngest AM in the region, averaging 18% QoQ revenue growth through consultative partnership development.

Pioneered programmatic automation at Dentsu Aegis, scaling utilisation from 3% to 68% — the highest adoption globally — by building a compelling commercial case for behavioural change.

Delivered 10+ keynotes to audiences of fifty to a hundred-plus C-level stakeholders, and hosted Talks at Google including a 100+ person Q&A with the Waymo CFO.

Partnered with enterprise product leads to shape roadmap decisions based on Nordic market feedback, and contributed to 10+ EMEA hires through the regional interview committee.

Ankra.

Raised $1.2M pre-seed and secured a Techstars spot. Led every investor conversation, term negotiation, and stakeholder communication from a blank page.

Sole commercial owner of all external relationships — investors, partners, enterprise clients — across a complex B2B infrastructure product in a nascent market.

Founded and scaled the Platform Engineering Community in Stockholm, hosting events for twenty to eighty engineers and establishing Ankra as a credible brand in the Nordic tech ecosystem.

Managed a cross-functional team of seven, balancing technical and commercial priorities in a resource-constrained environment. Self-taught Python, Infrastructure as Code, and Kubernetes to validate the MVP before capital.

NextRoll (AdRoll).

Opened the Nordics as AdRoll's first profitable EMEA market, building a book of business from zero through full-funnel outbound sales.

Trained three new hires; two became top performers within their first year.

Klingsbo Ventures AB.

My operating entity for commercial strategy and GTM work on a project basis. Available for engagements in robotics, enterprise AI, and adjacent spaces.

Energize.

A toy robotics venture I'm building on the side. Details shared by invitation only.

Babu Sunuwar.

Babu is a former Red Bull athlete and the first person to fly tandem off Everest. I'm volunteering commercial strategy for his project to remove waste from above the dead zone using paragliders. If you care about this space and can help, reach out.

Paraglider, qualified P3 in Nepal. Motorcyclist: solo Stockholm to Barcelona during the COVID-19 pandemic. Three ten-day Vipassana silent meditation retreats. Reader, yoga practitioner, and quietly obsessed with where embodied intelligence goes next.

Mälardalen University.

Study abroad: XLRI Jharkhand (Top 3 Business Schools, India) and Portland State University (Professional Selling, USA).