Karlsson has been working for the last couple of years as a consultant and a guest lecturer at Stockholm University. He left his last agency role as global CCO of Crispin Porter + Bogusky in 2018, having joined the agency a year earlier at the time he sold his own business, Ming Utility and Entertainment Group, to CP+B owner MDC.
Before that Karlsson spent six years at McCann, finishing as creative chairman, preceded by eight years at Mother (now Ikea’s UK agency) and four years at Fallon Minneapolis.
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