Torkel Mellingen

Torkel Mellingen, VP of Design for Cisco collaboration products, builds experiences, products and services that help people work better together. Torkel started his designing collaboration products when he joined Tandberg in 2004. When Cisco acquired Tandberg, he helped create Cisco’s new design language. He joined Acano in 2014, a UK-based collaboration startup, leading design and marketing for apps and meeting room products. In 2016, he rejoined Cisco with the acquisition of Acano, where he brought his design thinking to the Cisco Spark Board and the new Cisco Spark app, gaining his team’s 19th Red Dot Design Award, and this time a Best-of-the-Best. Torkel lives in Oslo, Norway and enjoys, wait for it…skiing and trekking.

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