Karl Birgir Bjornsson

Karl Birgir Björnsson is the CEO and Co-founder of Hefring Marine, a maritime startup in Iceland. Karl Birgir has a joint BA degree in Business Development from the City University of Hong Kong in 2011 and the University of Kent in 2012. He joined global prosthetics and orthotics company, Össur hf., in 2012 as a financial analyst in Corporate Development, later joined Corporate Development and Business Control. Karl Birgir joined Rafnar, a boat design and boat builder in Iceland in 2017 as Head of Business Development, developing sales and partnership strategies. Co-founded Hefring Marine in late 2018 along with two other founders, spinning out of research into high-speed vessel motions and wave impacts