14ISLANDS - Key Persons


Aline Kesting

Job Titles:
  • Visual Design Director
Aline is a complex mix from Germany and France. She is a brilliant designer but always dreamed of writing code. At night, she plays retro video games but also attends yoga classes. Aline is the nicest person you'll ever meet.

Bianca Reis

Job Titles:
  • Creative Developer
  • Creative Developer from São Paulo
Bianca is a creative developer from São Paulo, Brazil. She has a big appetite for creativity, animations and crazy interactions and is also part of the Awwwards Jury. In her free time, she enjoys listening to music and watching films, series and Japanese animation movies together with her 5 cats.

Claudia Morales

Job Titles:
  • Visual Designer
Claudia is a designer and 3d generalist from Gran Canaria (in the Canary Islands) who loves telling stories; a passion that began as a competition in elementary school for being the one who had read the largest number of books in her class. In her free time, she also enjoys motorsports and sweets.

David Lindkvist

Job Titles:
  • Creative Tech Director
David comes from a small town in Sweden called Sandviken. He is a talented developer with a dark history as a death-metal band drummer and kettlebell lifter. David just became a dad for the second time.

Fábio de Abreu

Job Titles:
  • Application Developer
Fabio is an app developer from Floripa, Brazil. Sports aficionado, and former local Judo champion. He religiously plays soccer every Sunday with his friends and can't say no to a trail walking in nature. Not a big cooking fan but makes up for it with his interest in fishing fresh crabs and fish from the beautiful Floripa waters.

Hjörtur Hilmarsson - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
Hjörtur has a cat that is really sweet. He also has a wife and two kids. Hjörtur likes basketball and is still a huge Michael Jordan fan. Born and raised in Iceland, he decided to move to Sweden the day Eyjafjallajökull erupted.

Jessica Feder

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager
Jessica is our first dedicated project manager at 14islands. She speaks four languages while guiding us through time and space. For fun, she rides motorcycles and regularly competes in road racing. Jessica enjoys vacations fighting scorpions in her Spanish desert house.

Katarina Ljungdahl

Job Titles:
  • Creative Developer
Katarina comes from Sweden and used to work with graphic design and communication until she realized that writing code is so much more fun. You usually see her hanging out with her dog, but when she's not, you will find her on a bike or climbing a rock.

Marco Barbosa - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Marco is a creative coder from sunny Floripa in Brazil. Apart from taking care of his boy, his three favorite things in life are making food, eating food and warming up the BBQ. Marco also runs our South American leg.

Markus Wallén

Job Titles:
  • Engineer
  • Experience Designer
Markus is an engineer turned designer from Skåne, south Sweden. He likes to create great experiences both for work and in his free time. As an amateur DJ you'll often find him playing obscure electronic music in his home that he shares with his 50 house mates.

Michael Crawford

Job Titles:
  • Visual Designer

Mohammed Bourouis

Job Titles:
  • Creative Developer
  • Creative Developer from Algeria
Mohammed is a creative developer from Algeria with a master's degree in Automation and Industrial computing. He had a secret passion for creating interactive web experiences, so he taught himself how to build on the web. While not coding away, you can find Mohammed on the football court or cooking healthy meals in the kitchen.

Myriam Penot

Job Titles:
  • Visual Designer
Born and raised in France, Myriam has been traveling the world to finally land in Stockholm. She brings positive energy to work every day, while drinking tea. Myriam likes to bike everywhere she goes and has a very complex relationship with cheese.

Pierre Lourdudoss

Job Titles:
  • Experience Designer
Pierre is a designer living in Stockholm, Sweden. He used to design mobile apps for a living, but now he's all about creating immersive web experiences. In his free time he loves watching hockey, eating Neapolitan pizza and taking photos.

Sarah Létourneau

Job Titles:
  • Experience Design Director
Sarah comes from the east side of Canada. She uses every opportunity to climb high walls and stay active surfing, skiing and eating "real" maple syrup. Sarah takes good care of our office plants and is on the lookout for a friendly dog.

Stefan Vitasovic

Job Titles:
  • Creative Developer
Stefan is a dedicated cat owner and a musician from Serbia. He moved to Sweden just before the covid-19 lockdown. Having a big appetite for creativity, Stefan judges websites at night for Awwwards and CSS Design awards.