Killian's Career

Art Basel — Senior Product Manager, App

Currently leading AI-powered mobile experiences at Art Basel, owning the Art Basel Companion and Lens. The work centres on personalised fair navigation and artwork discovery for collectors and primary-market galleries. It sits at the intersection of AI-driven matching, recommendation engines and high-end consumer product design — applying machine learning to a market that has historically run on relationships and instinct.

Zario — Co-Founder & CEO (2022–2025)

Co-founded and led Zario, an AI digital wellbeing product that helps people build a healthier relationship with their phones by making screen-time reduction feel like a game rather than a punishment. The product suite reached close to one million users, with a team of around 20 people globally at peak and close to $1M raised. Zario exited to an app portfolio company in 2025. The product work was rooted in behaviour-change design drawing on CBT and ACT principles: retention systems and anti-cheating mechanics, social and group accountability loops, family challenge concepts, AI-assisted validation, and experiments with brand-funded rewards marketplaces.

MissionPossible.VC — Investor (2025–)

Active investor bringing a founder-operator lens to early-stage opportunities.

Studio Hue — Co-Founder

Co-founded a video and animation agency serving enterprise clients including Coca-Cola and IKEA.

WDHB Strategic Learning — Global Program Manager

Designed executive learning experiences for C-suite leaders at Fortune 500 companies. Converted a discovery insight on failure culture at Swiss Life into a multi-year contract.

Earlier Career

Earlier roles span finance, sales and marketing, hospitality and operations, at organisations including Hathor Investment Group, Philip Morris International, WWF, Borgo Egnazia, Base7booking, BARVIKHA HOTEL&SPA, and Barn & Familieteamet.

Expertise

AI and ML product management, technical product management, UX design, stakeholder management, customer engagement, digital strategy and transformation, storytelling and marketing. Hands-on with Python, FastAPI, vector embeddings, MCP, AWS and Azure.

Education & Languages

BS in International Business from EHL Hospitality Business School, with additional study through Stanford Online / Y Combinator and Wharton (Viral Marketing). Native or bilingual in English and Norwegian (Bokmål). Based in Zurich, Switzerland.