Actually, some money was used to fund my first moped (a nice retro red Yamaha Sting!). The moped made my new business adventure of delivering newspapers more efficient as I could then handle two routes instead of one! 🏎💨
Studying Spanish in college made me decide to move to Barcelona in 2004. Through different telemarketing and support roles during the next 2,5 years, I ended up living in London studying to become Investment Adviser. The movie Wall Street from 1987 is one of my favourite movies and when 2006 the movie The Pursuit of Happiness hit the cinemas, I found myself pursuing the dream of becoming a hardworking stockbroker📞📞💵
I got a job at the Danish investment bank “Saxo Bank” and I felt I was closing in on my dream, but then came the big Financial Crisis in 2008. 50% cut on staff and I had to revise my situation 🤨
Software as a service / Hosted service / Cloud computing?🤷🏻
2008 was also the year I finally entered the Software/IT industry. A sector where I fit in and still thrive. Having grown up in a small-town community, I think the way of working in this sector, which tends to be a bit more informal and relaxed, better fits my personality and values than suiting up Barney Stinson style every single day as was the norm in the banking sector!🕴 I do however enjoy wearing a suit once in a while, which is why I am also joining the Umbraco HQ "The Suits” team😉.
For over 10 years now I've been working with Cloud solutions - or should I say SaaS or Hosted Service - doing Partner account management and end-customer sales for Symantec and Colourbox.
With an open rest-API in hand at Colourbox, I created partnerships with brand management tools and CMSs and in fact, I actually got a small Community package/extension to Umbraco developed together with an Umbraco-partner💪🤘 so I’ve already known Umbraco for a while before I started at HQ.
Based on my experience, Cloud has now become a synonym for simplicity, ease of use and transparent pricing. So, of course, hearing that Umbraco also have a Cloud offering made me even more interested in this role.
So, this was me trying to describe “business Mike” (no, not Magic Mike🕺🏼!!), but who’s Mike beneath the “suit”?
Mike, a father who loves sports and fishing!
I am a dedicated father of two small boys aged 1 and 3 years old. I love sports in general, but particularly something that includes a ball of some sort.
I’ve actually just retired my own active soccer career where I finished off helping my childhood team (now called SSV Højfyn – they do have an image gallery of me performing Great Dane Saves!!) getting promoted 3 times in just four years and leaving them in the fourth best Danish division, the level just before you start getting paid.