ABOUT BJORN TO

Brand story

Bjorn To was founded in 2023 by a team of pro skiers and carbon fiber specialist who decided to develop a ski brand 100%. The head office is in Winthrop WA and the factory is in Redmond, WA.

In 2020 Erik and Marine Bjornsen took over one of the largest nordic ski shops in the Pacific Northwest. During their time in the shop they quickly realized the need for a brand with modern style, top level performance, and made locally. Sohier Hall, a friend who heads up Ratio Made, a composite manufacturing company based in Redmond, WA was the perfect partner to make this dream reality. Tyler Simpson, also pictured above, is part of the Bjorn To family as an investor. After several years of prototypes and developing poles we were all happy with, we launched our brand in October of 2023.

Meet the Team

Erik Bjornsen

Founder

Erik Bjornsen grew up in Winthrop WA. As a member of the U.S. Ski Team for nearly a decade, he competed in 2 Olympic games, and 8 seasons on the World Cup. During his career Erik had over a dozen National titles, made the World Cup, and placed 5th at the Olympics. In 2020 Erik retired from his athletic career to chase new goals. With Marine they decided to move to his home town Winthrop WA and take over the Winthrop Mountain Sports retail store, the same store Erik picked up his first pair of skis.

Marine Bjornsen

Founder

Marine grew up in France. She competed for the French National Biathlon team for over 10 years, raced on the Biathlon World Cup, and won countless National Titles. At 24, she moved to Anchorage Alaska, and competed 2 years on the NCAA circuit for the University of Alaska-Anchorage nordic skiing. She coached the University of Alaska Anchorage for 4 years and was elected NCAA RMSIA Ski coach of the year in 2020.

Sohier Hall

Partner

Sohier grew up in Concord, MA. He got his start in cross country skiing and Nordic combined at age 6 with Bill Koch Ski League.

He raced as a student at Holderness School in NH, then was on both the Nordic team and the Men’s Heavyweight Crew team at Dartmouth College.

His boat went on to become the top crew in the country in 1992. Sohier is a past Board member of US Rowing and the George Pocock Rowing Foundation.

He and family split time between Seattle and Winthrop. Sohier is also founder and Managing Partner of Ratio Made, Inc.