Bakken & Bæck AS

Codruța Gamulea Berg is a Partner at Dovetail, which makes growth investments in technology companies, where she works with Nordic software companies on strategy, positioning, and go-to-market execution. She has over 20 years of experience with design and engineering teams at Accenture, Bakken & Bæck, and across Dovetail's portfolio, advising on digital strategy, product development, UX, and technology-led transformation. She also serves as a board member and advisor to founders and leadership teams.

Ianthe Bato is Head of Product Design at Bakken & Bæck, based in Amsterdam. She leads end-to-end product design across the firm's projects.

Karina Golubenko is a Senior Product Designer at Bakken & Bæck, focusing on digital products and interactive experiences. She has worked in interaction design since 2018, with past clients including lululemon, Nike, Zara, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Boucheron, CitizenM, L'Oréal, Air Company, Rimowa, and Strelka Institute.

Koen Jansen is Product Design Lead at Bakken & Bæck, with over 12 years of experience in design across agencies, enterprises, and startups. His work focuses on brand and UX, including leading product design processes and translating complex flows into simple interfaces. Outside of design, he also works in songwriting and music.

Kristijan Barisic is a Senior Developer at Bakken & Bæck, working across the software development lifecycle from architecture and backend development to frontend applications and CI/CD pipelines. His current work centers on Python, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, Docker, PostgreSQL, and cloud infrastructure, using DevOps tools such as Terraform and Ansible. His background also includes .NET and C#, though he now works primarily with open-source technologies.

Paulius Friedt is a Senior Software Engineer at Bakken & Bæck, where the role is titled Senior Frontend Engineer. His interests include the intersection of technology and design, spanning information, programming, and creativity, and how developing technology expands design's applications in daily life.

Philipp Gross is Head of Data Science at Bakken & Bæck AS, where he leads a four-person development team, runs an internal machine learning seminar, and supports new-business pitches. An AI and machine learning engineer with over 13 years of experience and a PhD in mathematics, he works primarily on production NLP systems, with additional projects in computer vision and optimization. His recent work includes architecting an agent-based impact platform and developing an LLM-powered workflow that reduced manual processes by 67 percent over eight weeks.