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Rester OyCEO
Sep. 2022FinlandLeading a fabulous team of change makers at Rester where we take in end of first life textiles and turn those back into fibrous raw materials.
Rester OyGrowth and Strategy
Jan. 2022 - Sep. 2022FinlandWorking on the growth plan and execution with the CEO and the rest of the team.
Tamrepe Ltd.Consultant, Founder and investor
Jan. 2005 - Dec. 2021Europe and USAConsulting several start-ups and established companies. Contributing feedback, advice and mentoring for more than 30 businesses.
- Strategic business and corporate development
- Innovation finding and development
- Building and managing a team.
- Project and program management
- Go-to-market strategy
- Market analysis During this time also started a real estate investment company and won Microsoft-Nokia App development award (4% of the applications in the program for accepted).
Transflection, Inc.Director of Strategy and Partnerships, Co-Founder, CEO
Jan. 2015 - Mar. 2017Portland, Oregon AreaSpearheading the fundraising strategy and strategic business development efforts and tasked to achieve KPI’s of fundraising and building sales. Led and developed a team of 4 professionals and expanded and grew the team to a total of 7. Representing the business and negotiate with 300+ business partners to build a solid business pipeline, resulting in four contract negotiations in four months with publicly traded multi-billion dollar companies. Negotiate worldwide supply chain tests and deals to find the right partners and validate them.
Aalto Center for EntrepreneurshipIP, Innovation & Business Development Manager
May. 2012 - Feb. 2014Otaniemi, EspooLed and managed intellectual property and business development projects focused on high growth and commercialization of innovations and ideas with business opportunities north of $100m. Grew the responsibilities on innovation and strategic business development to a total of 2,200 employees representing 43% of the organization. Helped to start over 10 businesses and took on the role of board member for one of the start-up companies, assisting in the management of a $1.2m business development fund for one company in addition to smaller ones for many others. Representative judge for the organization and country at European Space Agency Competitions.
Self EmployedReal Estate Developer and Investor
Jan. 2003 - Nov. 2013Finland and USAHave been working on real estate investments for the last decade. Enjoy this stable, but at the same time complex industry.
Wolftree, Inc.Program Manager
Sep. 2007 - Jun. 2009Portland, OR, USAHelped to lead and develop an award-winning experimental science education program. Handled the program in Oregon and Washington and managed 4 employees and approximately 50 volunteers. Managed day-to-day program expenses and compliance with the federal and private grants. Coordinated and successfully facilitated the work and equipment needed for the incoming programs. Worked on strengthening community involvement, carrying out literacy research and designing scientific study methods to be used in the field.
Hämeenlinna Art School Camp for Young PeopleTeacher
Jun. 2002 - Aug. 2003As outdoor arts and skills teacher, mentored children and youth in the development of their self-esteem and helped them to excel in the outdoors.
City of HämeenlinnaYouth Leader
Jun. 1998 - Aug. 2001Did mentoring and coordination of activities in the evenings. Helped during the day at the nature on guiding the children, building shelters, fishing and being win the nature. Had also responsibility to structure and lead the work of other youth leaders.
Finnish Defense ForcesLieutenant - Special Reconnaissance, LRRP
Jun. 2000 - Jul. 2001Excellence in leadership and application of practical skills, Finnish Defense Forces, 2001. Was promoted to Lieutenant by Finnish President Tarja Halonen on December 6th 2006
Finland Guides and ScoutsScout Leader
Jan. 1994 - Dec. 1998Developed deeper understanding of the importance of flexibility in teamwork while refining outdoor skills. Enjoyed the opportunity to work with people of all ages in a setting which posed physical challenges to all.
Stefanini GroupHead of Market & CX, Northern Europe
Apr. 2020 - Dec. 2021FinlandBuild and embrace the market in Europe, especially the Nordics for Stefanini Inc. My focus is on creating creating solutions with the clients that will be measured in performance factors and proven to show results in Digital Experiences, Industry 4.0, Agile Marketing, Business Process and Sales Optimization, Growth Hacking, Infrastructure, Dev., Cloud and Cyber Security, Managed Workplace Services, Digital Workplace, Application Development etc. Quantify the strategy with clients and identify gain-sharing opportunities. Utilize outside resources, partnerships and acquisition targets to find new sources of ideas, technical innovation solutions, and obtain new innovation tools and best practices. Have fun and go get it done!
Stefanini GroupHead of CX and Digital Strategy
Jun. 2019 - Apr. 2020Lead the Customer Experience and Digital Strategy for North America. Collaborate with other regions and partners to ideate, design, solve and advice on the ways to answer business challenges for clients.
Stefanini GroupSenior Digital Transformation and Innovation Lead
Oct. 2017 - Apr. 2020Portland, Oregon AreaSolve business and technology challenges for and with the clients, including many of the Fortune 500 and 50. Drive digital transformation and holistic view of experiences within the customer journeys, be it internal or external to the company. Create solutions with the clients that will be measured in performance factors and proven to show results in Digital Experience, Industry 4.0, Agile Marketing, Business Process and Sales Optimization, Growth Hacking etc. Create a meaningful innovation strategy and road map that drives innovation, transformation, and thought leadership at regular intervals throughout the global engagement model. Build innovation ecosystem with external and internal partners. Quantify the strategy and identify gain-sharing opportunities. Utilize outside resources, partnerships and acquisition targets to find new sources of ideas, technical innovation solutions, and obtain new innovation tools and best practices.
NikeSenior Innovation Manager - Technology Operations
Oct. 2017 - Mar. 2020Portland, Oregon AreaDrive innovation and thought leadership in technology operations with dynamic cross-functional team with global reach. Own and drive "key bold innovation" plays. Collaborate and integrate with corporate innovation ecosystem as well as with outside partners. Manage and lead efforts to ensure capability to develop innovative strategies, products and processes that enhance competitive advantage and deliver superior customer experiences.
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.Strategic Partnerships & Due Diligence Manager
Jul. 2017 - Oct. 2017San Francisco Bay AreaManaging the right strategic partnerships for new business solutions in AI, Robotics, Healthcare and IoT. Develop and grow investment and new venture development opportunities for disruptive innovation and technology commercialization platforms in order to drive corporate development. End-to-end ownership of strategic programs and life cycle for go-to-market with customer centric innovation strategies developed with partners. Analyze and own collaboration with startups, VCs, other corporations, research and innovation development organizations. Lead the associated contract negotiations. Engage with partner prospects at the executive, product, and engineering levels to assess potential fit with investment and new ventures portfolio. Support business partners' goals, and ensure alignment with BIC's strategic focus areas. Tie together the external and internal stakeholders to find mutual benefits across the matrixes, organizations, verticals and customer segments.
Portland State UniversityInnovation and Business Development Manager
Feb. 2014 - Jul. 2017Portland, OregonManage innovation development for ~95% of the technologies in a department supporting 6,500 employees. Undertake nationwide industry networking and handling over 10 teams in licensing and business
development deals annually. Responsible for maintaining and increasing the technology commercialization pipeline, resulting in ~50% of the new technologies being pulled into the business development work. Develop financial models for a wide range of business development strategies and lead the annual review and negotiations and work relating to 40-50 licensing and intellectual property development cases.
UNEINS Ltd.Board member and investor
Jan. 2013 - May. 2015GlobalUNEINS is a premium fashion label that brings forward tailored, high quality womenswear with an edgy Scandinavian style.
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University of OuluProject Manager at TEKNOKAS
Mar. 2010 - Mar. 2012FinlandNegotiated expansion and growth of the program to more small companies. Developed and led groundbreaking small and medium sized enterprise innovation workshops for a number of companies and other organizations. New client acquisition and planning the innovation and business, design thinking and development projects for each company through analysis of their business data and processes.
TAKKDevelopment consultant
Dec. 2010 - Aug. 2011Tampere, FinlandDeveloped and lead small and medium size enterprise innovation workshops for multiple companies. Managed budgets and schedules for workshops and ongoing projects. Variety of responsibilities included the analysis of programs and innovation workshops as well as negotiations with partners on research and implementation of new ideas. Helped several small and medium size businesses in developing their teams’ capabilities to innovate and increase business.
Albany InternationalProject Manager, Product Development R&D Engineer
Sep. 2005 - Sep. 2007Appleton, WI, USAManaged multiple R&D product development projects across USA as well as in France and Sweden with total budgets between $2-10M. Lead the development effort on the next generation of product line to beat competitor products. Developed 4 new patentable products for international markets
UPM KymmeneEngineer
Apr. 2005 - Aug. 2005As paper science engineer deepened understanding of the importance of continuous improvement and innovations in technologically highly advanced paper mill (Kaipola, PM#6, LWC). Gained increased knowledge of complex process systems. Received special recognition for operational improvements proposals.
Tampere University of TechnologyStudent Representative
Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2004Participated in the meetings and represented students at them. Provided student perspective in respect to decisions on all the matters dealing with Institute of Fiber Material Science and Institute of Material Science.
New Leaf PaperTechnical Engineer
May. 2004 - Aug. 2004San Francisco Bay AreaProvided technical support at leading environmentally friendly printing and office paper development and distribution company. Enhanced awareness of the importance of effective marketing and experienced firsthand how a dedicated and passionate group of individuals can turn a small company into a market leader even amongst very old industry sector.
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