{"id":4029,"date":"2018-08-22T15:09:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T15:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foreo.com\/mysa\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2022-09-26T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:39:41","slug":"founder-filip-sedic-foreo-brings-vision-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foreo.com\/mysa\/founder-filip-sedic-foreo-brings-vision-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering Difference: Founder of FOREO, Filip Sedic, Brings Vision to Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"
Time to put a face to everyone\u2019s favorite beauty tech brand: meet Filip Sedic, the CEO and founder of FOREO, and brains behind LUNA, ISSA and UFO. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Relentlessly inquisitive, to date, Sedic\u2019s<\/a> thirst for invention has seen him file more than 200 international patents across multiple categories. Now, as part of a proven track record of investing in industries long overdue an overhaul, the inventor is turning his attention to transforming the beauty tech industry not just for good<\/i>, but for better<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n Ever since establishing FOREO in 2013, Sedic, a Bosnian-born Swede, has been active in all aspects of the now multinational brand. In particular, this consummate ideas man plays a pivotal role in product development, heading up a team of R&D professionals collectively known as the FOREO Institute. Although the name may conjure images of a centralized, secretive laboratory, the brand\u2019s technical experts are based across no fewer than ten countries. Why? Because FOREO is for everyone<\/i>, and wellbeing knows no borders! <\/span><\/p>\n The team\u2019s achievements include the LUNA range of facial cleansing brushes<\/a>. On the debut model\u2019s release back in 2013, its material – medical-grade silicone<\/a> – marked a world first for a skincare tool of this kind. However, as Filip himself explains, the story behind FOREO’s very first product is refreshingly human:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMy wife, Ivana has always been passionate about skincare. In 2012, she started using a well-known brand of facial brushes, but found that the so-called \u201cbest\u201d product out there actually made her skin worse. When I took a look, I couldn\u2019t see how it could possibly be better than just washing with hands – its nylon bristles and detachable brush head could harbor bacteria, and it was clearly too abrasive. But to our surprise, a gentler and more hygienic alternative simply didn\u2019t exist. So this frustration, our conversations, and her insights led to the LUNA design. We haven\u2019t looked back since<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n One year later, in 2014, the FOREO Institute made the biggest, boldest step forward in toothbrush design in 60 years with ISSA<\/a>: a sonic, silicone brush combining comprehensive cleaning with a gentle, non-abrasive touch. <\/span><\/p>\n With Sedic as inventor-in-chief, the FOREO Institute has established a reputation for disrupting beauty world conventions. That could be packing high-end technologies into handheld at-home devices, as is the case with the ESPADA Acne-Clearing Blue Light Pen<\/a>; or more recently, challenging the widely (not to mention blindly<\/i>) accepted efficacy of sheet masks to create a 90-second smart alternative. Called UFO<\/a>, the puck-shaped device beautifully debunks the myth that professional-level skincare demands a hefty investment of both money and time, and is illustrative of one of FOREO Institute\u2019s driving principles: \u201cWhy not – and what if<\/i>?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n As you\u2019d expect, Sedic\u2019s path to creating extraordinary devices is similarly unorthodox. Long before founding FOREO, he headed up one of Sweden\u2019s first digital marketing agencies, before applying his lateral approach to problem-solving to developing early iterations of mobile 3G networks for the telecommunications company, Ericsson.<\/span><\/p>\n\n