Career

Marketer, founder and educator.

I'm Rued Riis, Marketing Director at All Gravy in Copenhagen. Before that: CMO, CPO, animation agency founder and online teacher. The common thread is turning complex ideas into content people actually want to watch.

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31KYouTube subscribers
3.7MYouTube views
13,000+course students
250+bootcamp & coaching clients

Experience

Where I've worked

  1. Marketing Director

    Current

    All Gravy

    Leads all marketing at All Gravy, the AI HR employee for hospitality: creative strategy, performance marketing, website, brand and content.

    Marketing leadershipPerformance marketingBrandContent

  2. Founder, educator & YouTuber

    Rued Riis · Explain Academy

    Built an online education business teaching experts to turn knowledge into video. Courses with 13,000+ students (incl. Go Beyond Vyond, the most popular Vyond course online), a YouTube channel with 31K subscribers, the Explain Academy 8-week explainer video bootcamp, consulting, talks and brand sponsorships.

    Online coursesYouTubeVyondL&D / eLearning

  3. Chief Product Officer

    Graduateland

    Led the design and development teams. Simplified the platform and prepared it for scale.

    Product leadershipUXScale-up

  4. Chief Marketing Officer

    UserTribe

    Joined a scale-up to build the marketing department from the ground up. Led the rebrand and built the new website.

    Marketing leadershipRebrandWebsite

  5. Founder & CEO

    Webly ApS

    Founded an animation agency for 2D explainer videos during my studies and grew it into a six-figure business, producing hundreds of videos for companies and institutions.

    EntrepreneurshipExplainer videosAgency

  6. Student worker

    e-conomic

    Where it all started: made my very first animated video, in GoAnimate (today Vyond).

    First video
Copenhagen Business School

Education

MSc in Innovation & Entrepreneurship (OIE)

Copenhagen Business School. Six years of academic studies, with a thesis on partnerships.

Featured

Vyond "Video Hero"

Vyond featured how I teach business owners to improve their marketing with animation, and called me a Vyond power-user.

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Clients & learners

Trusted by companies and institutions

  • Lyft
  • Zenegy
  • UCLA
  • City College of San Francisco
  • Northcentral University
  • edeos digital education
  • i-act

Video, workshop and course work for: Vyond · Karnov · Tecan · Velux · Refundly · Open Systems Network · Julie Morgenstern · Jero

On stage

Talks & workshops

Keynotes and hands-on workshops on video, storytelling and learning, for audiences like Republikken, Revisordag and Velux's Global Commercial Excellence team.

Rued speaking at Republikken
Republikken
Rued speaking at Revisordag
Revisordag
Rued recording a video
YouTube & courses

Toolbox

What I bring

Marketing

  • Marketing leadership
  • Performance & paid social
  • Brand & positioning
  • Websites & conversion
  • Content strategy

Product

  • Product leadership
  • Design & dev teams
  • Simplifying for scale

Video

  • Scriptwriting
  • Animation (Vyond)
  • Voice-over & sound
  • YouTube growth

Learning

  • Course design
  • Scenario-based learning
  • Microlearning
  • Teaching & workshops
A mosaic of Rued's YouTube videos

Hundreds of videos later

Agency explainers, YouTube tutorials and full courses. See the work for yourself.

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