TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF BUILDING WHAT DIDN'T EXIST YET.

A novel aircraft concept, designed and published in the Chronicles of Titicaco — the first of a lifetime of inventions.

A social intranet built for Ericsson — profiles, feeds and internal networking — six years before Facebook launched, won in competition with Capgemini.

An email-marketing platform. Within two months, CNN proposed a revenue-share to run targeted campaigns across its verticals — tech, business and more — and Ad2You consistently outperformed competitors on open and conversion rates, drawing a partnership offer from the portal Passagen.

An article in the magazine Vision predicts that people will soon talk to one another over broadband and that the telcos will lose their long-distance revenue — describing, in effect, Skype four years before it launched, and six months before Telia's own Östen Mäkitalo made the same forecast.

An e-democracy platform letting Swedish municipalities run rådslag — citizen consultations — and lowering the barrier to reach the participation threshold needed to put a question to the public.

A creative universe begun in 2002: the trilogy Titicaco — The King of the Sea, “re-writing history as it really was, from the beginning of time to a hundred years from now.” From 2010 it grew into 47 short films with deep-dive companion videos, and the full trilogy and its expanding world now live online.

A global, internet-based school built to bring high-quality digital education to rural and underserved regions — nominated in 2003 as Sweden's best initiative in the e-Inclusion category of the UN-backed World Summit Awards, in the awards' inaugural year.

Its purpose is to help shape the future through education: to build not just basic knowledge but problem-solving, sustainable development, entrepreneurship and leadership; to promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among nations; and to deliver it through an integrated digital environment of eLearning, eTwinning, eCommunity, eDemocracy and eAdministration.

The model has been carried into the real world since — serving children in post-tsunami Thailand in 2005, and in June 2009 presented by Ivan to development economist Jeffrey Sachs as a solution for education in rural areas and countries with limited access to schools.

Head of Operations after the tsunami. Built Titicaco Communicaring School™ — the internet school from 2003 — for children in a survival camp in Krabi, and stood up microloan operations — interviewing around 100 families under Johan Staël von Holstein's foundation.

Founded to widen diversity in the Swedish labour market — showing large employers and municipalities why a workforce that mirrors the population is one that can reach and serve it. Ivan also authored Handbok för invandrade entreprenörer, a handbook for immigrant entrepreneurs.

Ivan serves on the board of Hand in Hand Sweden — the charitable foundation led by industrialist Percy Barnevik — reporting on the progress of its microloan work, which lifted hundreds of thousands of women entrepreneurs out of poverty in India. Today, the global network has helped launch or strengthen over 7 million grassroots businesses, which in turn have created more than 10 million jobs.

Built to return the long-term unemployed to employment. In year one it placed roughly 10% back into work against an industry average near 2%; by year three, close to 20%.

A shopping app launched in 2009 that competed with Silicon Valley's Wish in its early days — before Wish rode the same model to global scale.

Blatteförmedlingen is named a Gasell company by Dagens Industri — the second fastest-growing company in the Stockholm region, built on 450% revenue growth over three years and partnerships with 12 public agencies and 200+ employers. Former labour-market minister Sven Otto Littorin credited it with showing “the power of diversity in Swedish business.”

Blatteförmedlingen and Ivan's work for inclusion are featured in the Economy Museum's (Kungliga Myntkabinettet) exhibition Entreprenörskapande, shown 2014–2017 — the museum's profile of the entrepreneurs who shaped Swedish society, alongside Ingvar Kamprad and Jan Stenbeck.

A backdated tax reassessment forces Jobbfabriken into bankruptcy — a setback that would sharpen, not stop, the next decade of building.

A gifting app, founded and acquired by Retain24 in 2017 — later rolled into Awardit. The first clean exit.

A complete door-to-door sales platform — the full logic and architecture of a field-sales operating system, presented in 2017, bearing strong similarities to Gritch, launched nearly a decade later.

Sales leadership across gaming, retail, media, DOOH and native advertising — repeatedly breaking company sales records, and learning what actually moves markets.

A recruitment firm placing sales leaders, sales managers and top management into Swedish tech and sales companies.

The iApply Transparent Recruitment Platform goes live — candidate-first hiring with AI matching between people and roles, built on the conviction that recruitment should be open, honest and measurable.

The holding company is rebuilt with one job: invent platforms, file the patents, build the brands and strategy — and invest, taking payment in cash and equity rather than fees.