Luke Jermy

Background

About Luke Jermy

TLDR; Background in design and digital technology. Worked with everything from startups to Google and everything in between. Founded a studio that helps to transform brilliant ideas for how to improve the world, into thriving, impactful businesses. Now here's the rest of it I’ve been working with design and digital technology in a number of different capacities since 2006. I started out working in the IT teams of large financial organisations as a software tester. In truth, testing was a stretch for me. I liked to tinker and understand how things worked, but I wasn't systematic enough to be any good at it. And my attention span stinks. In 2009 I moved to London and immersed myself into the startup world. It was here I got more involved in design: how to understand people and build things that made sense to them. This felt like much more of a calling. Turns out that crumby attention span was a bi-product of some sort of hyper awareness that thrives when doing creative, emotionally engaged work, with real people and their needs. After some years I took to life as a freelancer and started to bounce around some incredible creative technology and design agencies. I had the privilege of working with some massively talented people, as part of teams for the likes of Google and The BBC. London is great for opportunities like that. I moved to Copenhagen in 2017 and in 2019 I founded a studio called elsewhere together with a very brilliant man called Billy Maddocks (incredible mind, true friend). And to this day, we're on a wild and very fun journey to help people to build startups that balance the needs of people, and the purpose they are working towards, without compromising on how to get cash in the bank. It's my fervent belief that the pairing of design and technology are transformative. We can do an awful lot with them when we put them to good use. The role of organisations, and their influence on the people they touch is the vehicle for how we're trying to affect the change we're working towards. So how about we grab a coffee and talk about this some more, eh?