We don’t hire people who haven’t been overweight at some point in their lives. Well, that would be a bit discriminating, but to tell you the truth, getting advice from people who haven’t really tried being overweight just makes it so much harder to understand, what we’re doing. The real expert lies in people who can relate. The majority of iJoulers in our management are experts in this way, some have been successful, some still struggling, but hey, we know what we’re talking about.
To deliver the absolutely best community we’ve hooked up with the most talented and knowledgeable guys who can assist us in accomplishing our mission, some of them are:
Arne Astrup, partner and creator
Arne Astrup is MD from University of Copenhagen, and defended his Doctoral Thesis 1986.
Since 1990 Head and professor of Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and leader of the appetite, energy metabolism, and obesity management research group.
He established the Danish Nutrition Council, and was its president 1992-2003. Currently he is President of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, and Editor-in-Chief of scientific journal “Obesity Reviews”.
Arne is bringing his highly valuable insights to iJoule making sure we deliver a scientifically responsible community.
Leo Goldberger, creator
In 1972 Leo Goldberger became professor at New York University. Since then he was head of the Research Centre for Mental Health. His research is among others embedded in sensory deprivation, cognitive style and stress. He has been editor in Chief on Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly for the last 25 years.
Leo and Jørn have been working on psychological profiling for + 20 years and Leo’s inputs help us shape the lifestyle framework. Leo’s knowledge of diets and psychology is truly inspirational.
Jørn Beckmann, creator
Professor, Doctor and Chief Psychologist Jørn Beckmann has been working with clinical psychology for + 30 years. His works include several book, articles and research focusing on psychological profiling. Jørn has had numerous important professional appointments such as being Chairman of the psychosocial committee of DBCG (Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group), chairman and founder of Forskningsfonden for Brystkræft og Livskvalitet (Danish Research Foundation for Breast Cancer and Life Quality), vice-President of ESPO (European Society for Psychosocial Oncology) and many more.
Jørn is creating the fundaments of the psychological lifestyle profile.
Morten Lund, investor and creator
Morten is the kind of guys who accomplishes more in a month than most of us do in a lifetime. As a self-described Neo-Classical serial entrepreneur, Morten’s impact on the world has left an indelible mark. He has founded and invested in + 50 high profile tech start-ups including VOIP star Skype (recently sold to eBay for $4.3 billion), anti-virus consumer brand Bullguard, Scandinavian web agency NeoIdeo (sold to Leo Burnett), high performing Chinese browser Maxthon with 72 million downloads, Orolix the fastest growing on-line company in Brazil and PokerOffice the world leader in poker training.
Morten took the iJoule project under his wings on a Sunday afternoon and has continuously been adding everything you can think of making it possible for David to get a flying start.
David Naylor (DaveN), partner and creator
David Naylor, more commonly known as DaveN, started working in the SEO industry over 9 years ago working mainly with three large corporations releasing their database driven data, creating internal link structures and improving usability.
David went on to consult for a wide variety of online businesses from Corporations to off-shore Pharmaceutical companies, Retail outlets to Large Portals. His techniques range from clean white hat SEO to black hat SEO depending on the techniques needed for success. A few years ago David entered into the affiliate wars. Today David is a major contributor in the affiliate arena.
David’s main motivation is that he believes that there is no point having a site if it doesn’t rank No 1 and this is what he takes to iJoule along with his brilliant community know-how and creativity.
Rico Tijsen and the guys at HelloGroup, creators
Niraj Gemawat and the guys at Gateway, creators and partners
Henrik Vincent and his people at Userneeds, creators
Rudi Kobza, investor and partner
Peter Kabel, investor and partner
Christa, Tobias, Lasse and the people at Sund Dialog, creators and partners
+ Many more
David Beckmann, founder and CEO
Apart from all the fun and sometimes hassles coming from building a venture, it is my job to promote our vision of redistributing people’s energy. It is my humble hope that we can gather lots of great people on iJoule, follow their progress, weight loss and ultimately how they come to feel much better about themselves.
And I know what I am talking about being tubby in my teenage years, it was tough on me and I could tell you hundreds of stories what went through my mind, how I lost self confidence gaining weight, how I didn’t have a clear goal to change and didn’t know what would motivate me. Why emotional eating drove me crazy.
Further, I wasn’t much into books on nutrition and going on my small secret diets with all this frustration in the bag, I was doomed to fail.
It took something more, which I will post here in the coming weeks. Talking to hundreds of likeminded people ever since then, I think we’ve found a key to escape the vicious circle. They are some of the happiest people I know because having found a key to a new and better lifestyle and experience the success that follows you like a tail makes you want to teach others about it - and teaching others seeing them develop and succeed almost becomes a drug.
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