As a promising young football player, he took time off from his studies for one term to spend one season in the youth academy of Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro.
Its advisory board included Pekka Tarjanne, former Minister of Communications of Finland and General Secretary of ITU, Sven-Christer Nilsson, former CEO of Ericsson, Jorma Nieminen, former CEO of Nokia Mobile Phones, and Koh Boon Hwee, former chairman of Singapore Telecom.
Mobile FutureWorks is also the founder of Ignisdraco, a real estate developer with major projects in Indonesia and China.
[10][11] Zilliacus is also the founder of XXI Century Capital, an investment company focused on sports, fashion and digital media.
novaM aims to change this by developing a new social media environment that is built on and promotes “Nordic Values”; respect, equality, dignity, diversity, democracy, truth.
In March 2023, he submitted a bid to buy Premier League club Manchester United through his investment company XXI Century Capital for over 4 billion USD.