Michael Aagaard Andersen

Global Brand-Builder | Advisor | Board Member | Passionate About Creating and Growing Global Consumer Lifestyle Brands

📍 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 30 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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8
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30y
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Investor
Jun 2023
Our technology-driven, invitation-only concierge service eases and enhances your international lifestyle while having a positive impact on our planet. Albertine has been built by former executives from Uber and Quintessentially.
Board Member & Co-Founder
Aug 2019
PAIKKA is all about creating premium level, human-grade pet essentials. We believe every product designed for your pet should be designed as well and profoundly as products for human beings. We re-invent important daily moments in pets´ lives through inventive lifestyle products which are safe to use and equipped with uncompromised ergonomic and functional features. Our PAIKKA pack consists of animal lovers with unique skillset. Together we have long work experience in fast fashion, design, pet industry and assortment management, B2B omni-channel development, global procurement and production. We understand the needs of pet owners through extensive knowledge of dog behavior, ergonomics and wellbeing. PAIKKA delivers outdoor and home products for different life stages in pets’ life. Every product is designed with our end users’ needs in mind – for us pets come first. We don’t cut corners, even the smallest little details have been thought through. Practicality and functionality don’t rule out style, PAIKKA pet products are something you love showing to everyone, also your friends who don’t have pets, yet. We also make our industry expertise available to help third-party retailers grow their pet accessories business. We prepare turnkey strategic assortment and pricing models for our business partners and give them access to our proprietary design, product development and manufacturing system Follow our journey on Instagram.
Board Member & Consultant
2000
Rejsebureau der tilbyder kør-selv-ferie, flyrejser samt feriehusudlejning også som last-minute og weekendophold. Vi er dit rejsesupermarked. Med os bor du godt og rejser billigt over hele verden. Og du bestemmer selv. Fly eller bil. Hotel eller ferielejlighed. Eller feriehus hvis du foretrækker det. Det vigtigste er, at alt bliver, som du vil have det.
Experience · 11 entries
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Investments (6)
Founder (4)
Board (5)
2024
Associate Partner
Jun 2024
WE CONNECT GLOBALLY ORIENTED CONSUMER BRANDS WITH LOCAL PARTNERS IN ASIA PACIFIC AsiaCorp is a business consulting firm specialized in developing and executing successful Asian market entry and international growth, transformation, and M&A strategies for our clients. AsiaCorp works to exceed the goals of our clients through a variety of business development activities such as matchmaking, partner and joint venture sourcing, direct and indirect representation, and investment assistance. Through an extensive global network of partners and associates who are all industry specialist, AsiaCorp provides its services across such vertical consumer markets as: sports apparel, fashion, shoes, jewelry and accessories. AsiaCorp is represented in China, Japan, South Korea, India, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Australia, Greece, UK, and Denmark.
2023
Investor
Jun 2023
Our technology-driven, invitation-only concierge service eases and enhances your international lifestyle while having a positive impact on our planet. Albertine has been built by former executives from Uber and Quintessentially.
2019
Board Member & Co-Founder
Aug 2019
PAIKKA is all about creating premium level, human-grade pet essentials. We believe every product designed for your pet should be designed as well and profoundly as products for human beings. We re-invent important daily moments in pets´ lives through inventive lifestyle products which are safe to use and equipped with uncompromised ergonomic and functional features. Our PAIKKA pack consists of animal lovers with unique skillset. Together we have long work experience in fast fashion, design, pet industry and assortment management, B2B omni-channel development, global procurement and production. We understand the needs of pet owners through extensive knowledge of dog behavior, ergonomics and wellbeing. PAIKKA delivers outdoor and home products for different life stages in pets’ life. Every product is designed with our end users’ needs in mind – for us pets come first. We don’t cut corners, even the smallest little details have been thought through. Practicality and functionality don’t rule out style, PAIKKA pet products are something you love showing to everyone, also your friends who don’t have pets, yet. We also make our industry expertise available to help third-party retailers grow their pet accessories business. We prepare turnkey strategic assortment and pricing models for our business partners and give them access to our proprietary design, product development and manufacturing system Follow our journey on Instagram.
2018
Chairman & Co-Founder
Aug 2018
SMAEKKYS Fashion Technology Company is a privately held jewelry and accessories company headquartered in Guangzhou, China and with its design studio in Copenhagen, Denmark. We bring the latest Nordic jewelry design at affordable prices to female consumers under the following brands: SMAEKKYS™ and iHEBE®. Our unique products are available via mobile and social commerce, network sales as well as via branded concept stores, shop-in-shops and digital showrooms. We also make our industry expertise available to help third-party retailers grow their accessories business. We prepare turnkey strategic assortment and pricing models for our business partners and give them access to our proprietary design, product development and manufacturing platform. The company’s core differentiator is our data-driven, fast-reaction design and supply chain system which allows us to put the fashion back in jewelry design and produce what the consumer really want to wear here and now. Our chief designer is the Danish goldsmith, Bodil Binner - renowned for dressing international film stars and royalty with magnificent jewelry creations. Her creativity is rooted in Scandinavian minimalism. But the main source of inspiration she finds in the cool, clean, snow covered landscape of the Nordic countries. We offer job assignments with amble opportunity for personal growth as we expand the business globally. Our organizational structure is flat with an open and involving management style. We are restless in our mission to find creative and talented people to join our team, where everyone is enabled and inspired to reach their full potential. If you would like to be part of building the next, world leading fashion jewelry company, come join us today.
2009
Pandora Jewelry Asia-Pacific Limited
Co-Owner and Board Member
2009
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