Klaus Lynggaard Hougesen

Who is Klaus Lynggaard Hougesen?

Klaus Lynggaard Hougesen is a Danish serial entrepreneur and a design and IT specialist. He is active in a number of consultancy networks, amongst others DABGO He is the owner of the design firm Threads which was founded in 2004 by himself and his brother.

After working in the fashion industry and seeing the conditions in Asian factories, they decided to go another way, a longer, slower and tougher one. Which resulted in an ethically correct production model for producing handmade goods in Asia. Their first iteration of applying this model has resulted in the apparel brand Bythreads.

He has worked and lived for several year in Innsbruck, Austria & Tokyo, Japan where he gained a minimalistic approach to design evident in so many of his designs & products.

Klaus Lynggaard Hougesen is co-founder of Northernmind a Scandinavian Startup incubator whose sole purpose is to create viable business with special focus on medical company/it & web technologies amongst others carecord.com.

He has been a Creative Director for several companies.

He fences and has participated in the Danish Championship for Seniors fencers where he was placed 28th.

He is the co-author of Super Samurai an advanced flash book.