Our management

Bjarke Myrthu, CEO & Founder

Before Bjarke launched Storyplanet he co-founded Magnum In Motion. He is also the producer of several award winning online documentaries, and author of the book The Digital Storyteller. Bjarke frequently lectures and conducts workshops in digital storytelling.

Pete Barr-Watson, CTO

Pete was co-founder of one of the first flash agencies and co-author of 'New Masters of Flash 2002'. He is a frequent speaker at flash conferences and tech events worldwide, and a two-time jury member at Prix Ars Electronica. Pete came to Storyplanet from a senior position at Microsoft. He is an avid photographer in his spare time.

Joichi Ito, Chairman & investor

Joi has been one of the most successful angel investors in recent years investing in startups like Twitter, Last FM, Flickr and Movable Type. He was named one of Business Week's 25 most influential people on the internet. Joi is also CEO at MIT Medialab and involved in numerous organizations like Creative Commons, Mozilla Foundation and Witness.

Mohamed Nanabhay, Board & investor

Mohamed is the Head of Online at Al Jazeera English. Previously Mohamed founded the Al Jazeera Network's New Media department. As an internet entrepreneur,
Mohamed has been involved with developing online properties since 1995 and is an active angel investor in
numerous companies.

The glue

We started out as a small group of journalists and photographers. We wanted to use digital media and internet to create a new kind of stories, and we had to invent the tools as we went along. Then pioneers like Blogger, WordPress and Youtube changed the idea of what media is, and who the storytellers are. Our mission grew from helping ourselves to helping everyone who want to create beautiful stories from video, photos, audio, text and graphics. We believe that storytelling is the glue that holds the world together and helps us understand ourselves and others. The more people that are able to tell their stories the better.

 

Today our focus is to develop three things: A tool that will make it easy to turn almost any idea into a beautiful visual story, a community where storytellers can collaborate and follow each other, and finally a developer platform that will enable programmers to modify and extend our services.

 

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