Per Welinder

Per Welinder is a Swedish-born former professional skateboarder and entrepreneur who co-founded Birdhouse Skateboards with Tony Hawk in 1992. He currently serves as General Partner and Co-Founder of WelinderShi Capital, a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles and Sydney focused on lifestyle, culture, and technology investments. He is best known for his career as a freestyle skateboarder on the Powell-Peralta Bones Brigade team during the 1980s and for building Birdhouse into a major skate brand under the Blitz Distribution umbrella.