Fredrik Carlström

I am the founder of Novel Technologies, the first creative agency with domain experience in quantum computing, natural sciences and deep tech, and the creative director of SEEQC, a quantum computing System-on-a-Chip (SoC) company headquartered in New York, with outposts in London and Naples, Italy.

Previously, I co-founded Another Structure, a real estate and hospitality development and management company known for our integrated, design-driven approach that reimagines underperforming properties and transform buildings that are obsolete or undervalued, including Austere, Alma, Park, and Stockholm Stadshotell. 

Before that, I was the CEO and creative director of Great Works Americas (now NoA Ignite), a leading digital innovation, marketing and product design agency with offices in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Barcelona, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai. 

Prior, I spent ten years in the film industry, first in development for Academy Award-winning producer Edward Saxon ("Silence of the Lambs", "Philadelphia", "Adaptation"), and later producing films including "Big River Man", "My Favorite Neoconservative", and "Destricted", an anthology film series directed by leading artists, photographers, and filmmakers including Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Sam Taylor-Wood, Richard Prince, and Gaspar Noé, which premiered at Sundance and Cannes.

Born in Stockholm, my career began in the mid-nineties when I founded Graceland Sthlm, a creative agency labeled the "enfant terrible" of the Stockholm ad world. 

Over the years, I have advised companies in technology, real-estate, design, hospitality and media, and I have had the privilege to work with companies including Absolut, Bloomberg, IKEA, Volvo, Estée Lauder, MoMA and President Obama’s White House. Though my background is diverse, spanning product design, branding, film production, and architecture, I most enjoy collaborating with different people and disciplines to create a singular, holistic outcome.

I live in New York with my daughter.