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Rikard Steiber

CEO GoodTrust | President at HTC | CEO at MTG | Google Global Marketing | Advisor & Angel Investor |

Menlo Park, California

Education

Work Experience

2020

  • Founder and CEO

    2020

    Founder GoodTrust, the first of its kind Smart Estate Planning service. 600K+ user and 50K+ estate planning documents created. GoodTrust is recognized as a must-have service by leading press incl. WIRED, WSJ, CNN, CBS, BBC, AARP, Forbes, AOL and Nerdwallet.

2016 - 2020

  • President Viveport and SVP Virtual Reality

    2016 - 2020

    Launched and built Viveport into a global destination for Virtual Reality (VR) experiences in +60 markets. Created the worlds first "Netflix of VR" content subscription business, helping 1,000s of developers to monetize their content across VR platforms.

  • CEO MTGx and Chief Digital Officer MTG

    2013 - 2016

    Built and grown the groups digital companies as CEO of Viaplay (European Netflix competitor with live sports) and ViaFree (ad-funded VOD services in 8 markets). Built world leading eSports and YouTube businesses with investments in ESL (world leader in eSports), DreamHack, Zoomin.TV (5th largest YouTube MCN), Splay Network (digital influencer network) and xVentures (new investments and M&A). Modern Times Group (MTG) is an international entertainment group with operations that span four continents.

2007 - 2013

  • Global Marketing Director - Ads, Mobile & Social Advertising

    2009 - 2013

    Established and managed all Mobile & Social Ads Marketing activities globally across Search, Display, Video/YouTube, Local and Commerce. Also managed Global Product Marketing and market roll-out for all Google's Ads products with extensive experience and expertise across Search, Display, Mobile, Local and Analytics.

  • Director of Product Marketing EMEA

    2007 - 2009

    Led Product Marketing for all Google products in EMEA. This includes product marketing and product launch responsibility for all Google products in the region e.g. Adwords, AdSense, Search, Maps/Earth, Gmail/Apps, YouTube, Mobile, Blogger, Social, Android, Enterprise etc. Extensive experiences of B2C and B2B product launches and managing global marketing initiatives.

1999 - 2007

  • CEO

    1999 - 2007

    Founded and built a leading Nordic telecom and media focused strategy consultancy company focusing on customer centricity, CRM/loyalty, digital transformation (web, mobile video) and subscription services. In 1999, founded Digiscope (later XLENT) a pioneering interactive media strategy consultancy company focusing on PC, TV, Mobile convergence and related digital and CRM strategies.

1997 - 1998

  • Director and Co-founder Sweden

    1997 - 1998

    Co-founded and built the leading Nordic Internet portal company (AOL of the Nordics) providing a wide range of offerings e.g. Search, Shopping, Travel, Finance, Games, Classifieds, Community etc.

1995 - 1996

  • Manager Multimedia Dept.

    1995 - 1996

    Established the first multimedia department at the leading incumbent telecoms provider in Sweden.

1994 - 1995

  • Brand Manager

    1994 - 1995