Kristjan is CEO & Co-Founder of 50skills.com. 50skills is an all-in-one recruiting platform designed to help employers qualify, hire and onboard job candidates using automation.

Employers use 50skills to provide a world-class candidate experience for new potential employees to generate more qualified hires, and dramatically improving their internal recruiting processes.

Prior to 50skills, Kristjan was VP of Marketing Products at Meniga (2014-2017). There he helped the company grow into being a Fintech white-label leader in Europe serving more than 50 million people in 20 countries.

Before Meniga Kristjan was CEO of Icelandic Startups, which focuses on empowering the Icelandic Entrepreneurial Eco-system with various initiatives. He co-founded and managed StartupReykjavik (2012-2013), the #1 Seed Accelerator in Iceland. He also served as an accredited Global Facilitator for Startup Weekend (2009-2016), where he facilitated more than 10+ Startup weekends in diverse places, ranging from various places in the Nordics to Tehran, Iran (2012). He was the global partner for Global Entrepreneurship Weekin Iceland (2009-2013), TEDxReykjavik licensee (2011-2013) and the former manager of Iceland’s largest idea competition, the Golden Egg (2009-2011).

Kristjan is a keynote speaker on the Future of Hiring, Entrepreneurship and Business Models. More than +1k students have sat in his classes at the University of Iceland, Bifrost University and Reykjavík University.

Kristjan has founded three startups. First, a small and an honest software failure in the contracting space, second a souvenir startup which sold volcanic ash from the Volcano Eyjafjallajökull and thirdly 50skills.

Kristján has a Bachelor degree in Political Science with emphasis on economics and a master’s degree in Marketing, both from the University of Iceland.