Career
He has worked with broadcasting and new media developments since 2001 and has spoken on these topics at seminars and conferences to over 20 countries around the world. He strongly advocates the necessity of broadcasting as a distribution technology, in parallel to the Internet. Garfors has visited every country in the world and is the youngest hobby traveller to have done southern
On 18 June 2012 he set a Guinness world record together with Adrian Butterworth from Britain by being the first to visit five continents in the same day.
He beat another world record in September 2014 with friends Øystein Djupvik and Tay-young Pak when they visited 19 countries in 24 hours. He works as a consultant within new media at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (Norsk Rikskringkasting) in Oslo and is president of the International DMB Advancement Group and sat one year as vice president of the mobile expert group of the European Broadcasting Union in 2008 and 2009.
Garfors was Chief Executive Officer of Norwegian Mobile television Corporation in 2008–2013. The company was the first in Europe to launch mobile television services via DMB in 2009.
In 2004 he headed the launch of live television to mobile phones for Norsk Rikskringkasting as the first in the world.
He was one of the pioneers of a number of other innovative mobile services, id est (that is) the world"s first personalized ads in a mobile television service and advanced forms of interactivity that combined mobile services and television Garfors also writes garfors.com, a blog on media and traveling His first book "198 – My journey to every country in the world" was published by Norwegian publisher Samlaget in September 2014.
He has had articles published in Afghanistan, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Additionally he writes a bimonthly travel column in the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Weekly.
Garfors is the oldest of seven children. He has also lived in Havøysund, Førde, Dublin, Falmouth, Copenhagen and Taipei.
He now lives in Oslo. Garfors holds a bachelor"s degree (hons) from Falmouth College of Arts in Great Britain and a Master of Management degree from Norwegian School of Management.
He used to play football for Førde Illinois in Norwegian Second and Third Division in the 1990s and was the team"s top goal scorer for two seasons.
Garfors played for Falmouth Town 1995-1998 and trained with Plymouth Argyle in English Division 2 in 1996.