Sesselía Birgisdóttir

Sesselía birgisdóttir

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  • About me

    Executive Leader | Scaling Businesses through Marketing, Sales, Service & Digital Innovation | Board Member

  • Education

    • Lund university school of economics and management

      2007 - 2008
      Master of science (msc) managing people, knowledge and change msc degree programme
    • Lund university school of economics and management

      2006 - 2007
      Master of science (msc) international marketing and brand management msc degree
    • Háskóli íslands

      2002 - 2006
      Bachelor's degree in sociology sociology

      Final thesis. Commercials in Icelandic television and their effect on children consumption.

  • Experience

    • Edda - media and publising house

      Jan 2000 - Jan 2002
      Advertising manager

      Edda - Media & Publishing was the biggest publishing company in Iceland. I was a part of the team that created SKÝ, a well known in-flight magazine distributed in all domestic flights in Iceland, Greenland and Faroe Island. I was in charge of all advertising sales, contracts, distribution and suggesting editioral material.

    • Eflir

      Jan 2005 - Jan 2006
      Project manager - pr relations

      Worked with on various projects at this PR company. Worked with many of the largest companies in Iceland on marketing and PR assignments.

    • Veröld - publishing company

      Jan 2005 - Jan 2006
      Director of sales and marketing

      My role was setting up all the sales channels of this new established publishing company. Price, distribution, marketing and sales was part of my responsibility. The position was only for 1 year as my main role was getting the department up and running. We managed to show great results, Veröld got 2 titles on the top 10 best selling list that year.

    • Red apple apartments

      Jun 2008 - Jan 2015
      Co-founder and chief commercial officer (cco)

      Lead multicultural team developing and designing a digital platform providing accommodation solutions in few easy and safe steps. The platform is being used in more than 130 cities in Europe both by individuals and large companies.

    • Xoxup

      Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
      Digital media consultant

      Various marketing consulting projects in Branding strategies, Digital developments and communications.

    • Advania á íslandi

      Feb 2016 - Aug 2019
      Director of digital media and marketing (cmo)
    • Federation of icelandic industry

      Aug 2017 - Sept 2018
      Board member - icelandic it companies (sut)
    • Pósturinn

      Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
      Executive director - framkvæmdastjóri þjónustu og markaðar (cco)
    • Svþ - samtök verslunar og þjónustu (federation of trade & services, iceland)

      May 2020 - Aug 2021
      Board member
    • Red apple ráðgjöf og fjárfestingar

      Jan 2021 - now
      Co-owner
    • Hagar hf.

      Jan 2021 - Feb 2023
      Director of innovation and marketing (cino/cmo)
    • Agr dynamics

      Aug 2021 - now
      Board member
    • Sýn

      Mar 2022 - Jan 2025
      • Executive Director at Vodafone (CCO) - Framkvæmdastjóri Vodafone Fjarskipti

        Feb 2023 - Jan 2025
      • Board Member

        Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
    • Eldum rétt

      Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
      Board member
    • Ahead - process mining

      Jan 2025 - now
      Board member
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Ábyrgð og árangur stjórnarmanna

      Reykjavik university
      Nov 2018
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Fagráð - markaðsstyrkur

      Issued by Icelandic Centre for Research - RANNIS on Oct 2019
      Icelandic Centre for Research - RANNISAssociated with Sesselía Birgisdóttir
    • Board member

      Issued by Svensk-Isländska Handelskammaren on Feb 2017
      Svensk-Isländska HandelskammarenAssociated with Sesselía Birgisdóttir
    • Hvatningardagsnefnd VERTOnet

      Issued by VERTOnet - hagsmunasamtök kvenna í upplýsingatækni á Íslandi on Jan 2018
      VERTOnet - hagsmunasamtök kvenna í upplýsingatækni á ÍslandiAssociated with Sesselía Birgisdóttir
    • Fjölmiðlanefnd

      Issued by VERTOnet - hagsmunasamtök kvenna í upplýsingatækni á Íslandi on Jan 2018
      VERTOnet - hagsmunasamtök kvenna í upplýsingatækni á ÍslandiAssociated with Sesselía Birgisdóttir