About me

Hello!

I am Bjorn, and although the name sounds Scandinavian, I am not - my parents just liked the name. There’s even an umlaut ö in there that I dropped when my wife and I moved from Switzerland - not Sweden - to Australia in 2013.

In my current role, I am leading a team of product designers for carsales, Australia's number one online destination for buying and selling cars. Together, we create products and services for Australian car dealers on the AutoGate platform and consumers on the many vehicle listing websites of the carsales network.

Before joining carsales, I worked for several years at REA Group where I was lucky enough to experience multiple diverse teams: I developed concepts and solutions for the Media team with Lifestyle and News, was part of the industry-first home loans team and launched the first integrated finance product for realestate.com.au, and lastly supported the Rent team with my expertise in creating a shareable and reusable online renter profile.

At both agencies DT (now AKQA) in Melbourne, and Namics in Zurich, I worked for some of the largest companies in the world. I consider myself very lucky and am proud that my work literally touched millions of people, and still does so every single day.

When I’m not working, I like to go on bush walks with my family, revisit childhood memories by reading books to my kids, play and collect board games, and offer my experience as a mentor on ADPlist.