Snapshot: Frans Johansson is an author, speaker, entrepreneur and managing director of Medici Capital Management. His bestselling book The Medici Effect is required reading at Volans and was selected as one of the 10 best business books of 2004 by Amazon. It has been translated into 13 languages. It looks at how individuals, teams and organisations can create an explosion of remarkable ideas at the intersection of different fields, cultures and industries.
Frans earned his MBA at Harvard Business School, where he founded the university-wide science magazine The Catalyst. Raised in Sweden by his African-American and Cherokee mother and Swedish father, he currently lives in New York City.
Organisation: Medici Capital Management.
Website: www.themedicieffect.com