Fulldome and planetarium specialist Sciss has named Johan Sköld as its new CEO, with the former COO succeeding Staffan Klashed, who remains on the board of directors in a strategic role.

Sköld, who joined Sciss in 2006, has held roles within the company as sales director, acting CEO and COO. In his decade working for Sciss, Sköld played a large part in the company’s rise as one of the leading fulldome and planetarium vendors for the attractions industry.

“Our team has been growing at a steady and responsible pace over the last few years, and I aim to keep that strategy and nurture the strong company and brand that we have built,” said Sköld.

“In the upcoming years we will have major focus on new projection technologies, making our back-end even more cost efficient, and of course to keep developing Uniview to maintain our leading position in the market.

“By providing the very best services and products we enable our clients to become successful, and we are in turn awarded for that by recurring business.”

Staffan Klashed, who co-founded Sciss along with colleague Per Hemmingsson in 2004, led Sciss’s entry into the planetarium market with its Uniview software – a data visualisation technology with real time graphics and interactive components.

“It has been a fantastic journey”, said Klashed. “We’re just at the beginning of this great adventure and with the public’s interest in science and astronomy growing, new science centres commissioned all over the world, and the entry of new technologies within projection and visualisation, the future looks bright. I’m looking forward to continue to serve Sciss’s users and partners in my new board-level role, where I will focus on long-term strategy and innovation.”