Asger Kongstad

Asger has +6 years of consulting experience with a focus on helping industrial companies to uncover unmet needs and define novel strategies to meet those needs through sustainable digital products and services applying methodologies from applied design thinking, circular economy, and quantitative modeling.

Before joining The Footprint Firm, Asger worked as a Principal Consultant in PA Consulting Group, leading teams on strategy and business transformation assignments in the life science industry and public healthcare. His primary focus was building new digital ecosystems around patients to increase data on new opportunities and unarticulated needs in wider population groups and become more data-driven in decision-making. Asger’s industry experience also covers financial institutions and renewable energy.

Asger finds great inspiration and energy in advising digital health start-ups and scale-ups around market access, strategy development, customer segmentation, and lean start-up methods and has engaged in start-up advisory for the past 3 years in his spare time.

Moreover, Asger has worked with multiple secretariats of the United Nations Global Compact in New York and in Copenhagen, enforcing sustainability policies from a global governance perspective while developing actionable tools for UNGC signatories to better integrate sustainability into core operations.

Asger holds a Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) in Business Management from Harvard University with a specialization in Innovation, and a BSc and MSc in International Business & Politics from Copenhagen Business School.