Carsten Jarfelt Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

My role at Earfab is simple: have the best conversations about how our approach will help your teams and your business build an even better, more automated, more scalable business and offering to YOUR clients. This journey is not about Earfab, it is about you and Your Spaces. Go claim them!Hearing Health is a big issue + a huge opportunity if addressed accordingly. At Earfab we have developed, built, tested, optimized, and deployed our SW, AI, and Manufacturing tech to enable custom-made Hearing Protection and other in-ear devices to be manufactured, and at-scale. So whether the client needs 1 custom set or 10,000 individual sets...we deliver. Often within a week....Scan-Order-Wear: Delivering at scale and end-to-end is only possible by changing the status quo, so we did. Self-scan your ears w. a smartphone. No more 3D-modeler or tool designer involved. Automatic manufacturing platforms. This is why we can deliver custom-made, at scale...Let's talk 🚀

Silicon Valley-based: Tech and Biz validation. Investor conversations. Sales and Partnership frameworks. Local demo and showcases. Being the most curious one, in the room where it happens…..

Mountain View, California, Us

Helping startups, corporations, teams, and individuals move forward by offering my Silicon Valley as a Service™ platform approach.Developed, delivered and proven by real people for real businesses, year after year - we have accelerated and validated new businesses, startups, investments, partnerships..... and more.Silicon Valley as a Service™ is founded on decades of Corporate doing + Co-founding three Silicon Valley based startups. The platform, is all about sharing that access, knowledge and speed, with you.Connected People often accomplish more, by doing.

Ventura, Ca, Us

From leading 500+ client projects for more than 4 years across industry verticals like Medical Devices, Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Packaging, Aerospace, Energy, and Materials Development...I have fueled a lot of shared value creation with our clients. From your first feasibility study to building the right equipment solutions for you and your teams, it always starts the same: with a conversation and not a sales pitch. Reach out if you want me to help you in building the right solutions, it is often simpler and leaner than you would think. The value from soluble, hi-temp, 3D-printed injection mold tooling? PepsiCo now launches 93% faster with a 96% cost reduction. Wilson Sporting Goods can now validate even more design options, while moving 10-15x faster, all while injection molding.

Taastrup, Capital Region, Dk

My role(s) and impact: Building the US market and global growth for Danish-founded Addifab, over a +4-year period. Starting the US sales growth from my Silicon Valley garage in 2019 to a successful acquisition by kick ass industry leader, Nexa3D from Ventura, CA as of 3rd of April 2023. WHAT: combining 3D-printing and injection molding in order to manufacture parts, in any design and in any material. Same or next day.WHY: validate design, properties and early failures to back the right projects and accelerate them to market (to boost biz!)HOW: I was in charge of 500+ client projects across all industry verticals like Medical Devices, Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Packaging, Aero(Space), Energy, and Materials Development...you learn a lot by being really curious!WOW: a proud journey, both as a tech geek + a minority investor in Addifab + as a Dane relocating to Silicon Valley back in 2013

København K, Dk

Building the world's largest 3D printing store in Denmark is amazing. Helping the team defining what to include in the portfolio besides printers. Cool events, training, hackathons and a lot more. Delivering input from Silicon Valley and the US 3D printing eco system

San Francisco, California, Us

Getting from deep language understanding to impacting software platforms, standing on the shoulders of massive AI research and market testing. Now fundraising and building global strategic partnerships. By passively ingesting the many forms of modern text - from tweets to emails, we match our deep understanding of language with your individual linguistic traits - revealing unique indicators, or biomarkers, that give you more insight into your mental health.Alzheimer's is a tragedy for the sufferer and for their families. It is a burden on the Health Care systems and it is a challenge that we have to address differently, to make it count. That's what we do. That's what I do

Copenhagen, Capital Region Of Denmark, Dk

Joining Danske Bank Digital’s Advisory Board today, taking the UX and customer driven banking experience to the next level. How to make banking go from a function to an awesome experience, and where to be inspired from? As the Innovation Advisor to Danske Bank Digital, we are going to move the needle on this one, and you will soon see why this makes sense in your daily life as well.....

The first mile in any startup is the critical one. It is here you lay the foundation and boundaries for your future journey. This is where you might get investment too late, too early, too cheap or from the wrong people. Travelling with a trusted companion makes the journey safer. We partner up people, businesses and capital – accelerating and validating the most critical mile to go for any startup. The first.

San Mateo, California, Us

Taking an extraordinary simple and lean 3D print platform to market with major clients globally is the greatest experience. Partnership advising and product scouting. What do you wanna 3D print any day now with the great team at MXD3D? Customization is king and this team is on top of the game.

København K, Dk

Creating crowds worth keeping has been my personal crusade and joy in life, over the last three decades. Being connected with bright, curious, innovative, risk-willing and open-minded people like yourself, is a humble result of being present, for the long term. As Chief Networking Officer at WDPX my primary role is to help startups, corporations and entrepreneurs get their true story and brand identity right. Making them stand out from the crowd in a credible, authentic and inspiring way. By doing this, we enable the true “worth” of crowds, being it funding, market validation or pure marketing excellence. In the noisy unknown of Silicon Valley, this is needed more than ever.At WDPX I operate at the intersection of crowd/funding, people/technology, corporate/startup and innovation/brand with an amazing team delivering global brands for more than 5 decades.By being a local in Silicon Valley, we can easily get together and take a spin around YOUR current challenges in creating the crowd you want and need, and together we can define tangible actions on how to fuel your escape velocity, taking you and your team to the next level.Working closely together with an amazing team of experienced individuals of excellence, we will offer the opportunity of letting you into our universe of awesome storytelling, with the right amount of authenticity, creativity and passion for details…let’s get started!

Linking this cool Icelandic startup with potential Silicon Valley partners. Defining potential Biz Dev activities. AEVI.IS is on a mission for life, and their success will help us all. I am just paying it forward here........

Copenhagen, Dk

I am a Business Development Executive for hire! Obsessed with Future Tech: Wearables, Robotics, 3D printing and the intersecting mashup of business opportunities! Driving the exploration of market opportunities, funding options, and technology transfer between 30+ Danish Startups / SMEs per year, and the US Silicon Valley Eco-System, within the ICT space. Founder and leading an International Innovation project on 3D Printing, #MAKERdisrupt. Innovation Management, both at a theoretical and executional level. Developing entry strategies, assist clients with business and marketing plans, and connect them via local partner search and through personal networks. Maintaining a solid, local US network including venture capital partners. Technology scouting leading to potential cross industry focused business engagement and out of the box thinking partnerships are on my radar every day.....drones, robotics, wearables, 3DP....it is all coming together!

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Supporting 150+ countries and 650+ key customers with crispy clear strategic Marketing and Communication activities!Areas of focus are:• Develop global strategies for Thought Leadership Marketing & Executive communication• Global Portfolio Marketing planning• Manage and support launches, campaigns & event preparation• Customer, Analyst, Investor and media engagement responsibility• Develop and deploy unique and differentiated value propositions for NSN Services• Support development of demos for internal / external events (Mobile World Congress, CTIA etc)• Co-work with product/portfolio/strategy/sales/ R&D colleagues and global virtual teams

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Getting 90+ countries and 100+ Key Customers to work together - by seeing the benefits and values from NSN's Services! My areas of responsibility include:- Idea Creation and conceptualising business models and processes- Innovation Management storytelling- Experience Sharing via various media and channels- Business Engagement & Networking with clients and internal stakeholders- Build and maintain strategic communication plans- Create and deliver Thought Leadership inspiring presentationsMy contribution: Reinvigorate the sales enablement of 7000+ employees. High-impact Strategic mind-set change communication delivered. Creating social media videos, animated movies and cartoons for deskware and hand-outs. Leadership team member in an annual Services Business of xxxx million €.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Lead a widely spread team of experienced Marketing Managers to a renewed sales boost: - The aim of the role to is to make a business turnaround via renewed awareness and sales routines with P&L responsibility - Focused business marketing creation and strategic sales force planning - CxO negotiations with key customers on larger RFQs, contracts and future deals - Implement routines for sharing even more business and market insight across business units - Start up new short/long term sales projects with virtual sales teams and customers - Coaching, personal performance planning and competence management of consultants - Positioning Competence Development Services as a high value service with key customersMy contribution: Doubling top line sales and quadrupling gross margin. Establishing a change ready team of skilled consultants. Execution of top level reduction strategy when needed.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

- Develop and implement entrepreneur style Sales approaches in the Nordic countries, Russia and Turkey - based on Value Based Argumentation (VBA) and Solution Selling– Customer meetings (CxO level), presentations and negotiations- Leading a team of Customer Engagement Managers - Partnership search and development- Creating sales and marketing strategies, adapted to customers and market dynamics- Enabling the capture of new markets and segments with Service sales- Developing Global Guidelines for Service Sales personnel- Advising internal Startups on their business plans and their strategic planningMy contribution: Develop and implement Value Based Sales in more than 25 countries – as a pilot area. Global deployment has followed since. Transfer Value into Cash. Build traction and momentum. Bring “Corporate Coolness” into Marketing around Services.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

- International project management across borders and cultures- Business development activities with the team of Solution Consultants across the countries - Business case studies and account planning for emerging and mature markets - 3rd party management of subcontractors/suppliers for service deliveriesMy contribution: Deliver top of the class negotiation skills in various key contract deals. Through Analysis AND Creativity the customer meetings became more relevant, leading to shorter sales cycles. ROI was a KPI in focus.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

- Services sales and business development - Customer engagement - Business planning - Service Development- Project planning and executionMy contribution: System deals of great scale have been secured. Building sustainable and important customer relationships. Exceeding sales budgets year-on-year.

Executive Mba, Master Of Business Administration

Practioneer, Coaching At Ps4

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering & Design Thinking

Student, Borupgaard Amtsgymnasium