Antti Vilpponen Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, Fi

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Fi

UpCloud offers the most high-performance public cloud resources available to power the business critical web around the world. It is both a price leader and performance leader in its space.With data centres around the world, the company continues to expand strongly.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Fi

UpCloud offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service products for companies looking to take advantage of the cloud, be it for business or technical reasons. We have data centres in Helsinki and London are looking to open up locations in North America and Asia.UpCloud's technology is built in-house, which gives dramatic cost savings and possibilities to scale as well as develop the offering into the direction our customers value.

My personal holding company for various businesses. The name of the company is drawn from the location of Savonlinna. 62° North is approximately the latitude of the little Finnish city I am very passionate about.

Snafu Oy is the producer of Silmusalaatti, an all new salad type food to be used as a natural additive in salads or other foods. It comes in several different flavors and available soon in your local super markets.I advised Snafu Oy on financing, sales and strategy.

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Fi

Tietoset Oy is the provider sourcing services to industrial purchasers looking to get increase their margins. It has a self-service platform for manufacturers and purchasers as well as a Sourcing-as-a-Service type of consulting arm that helps companies get the best manufacturers at the best prices for their products.I advised Tietoset Oy mostly on finance, strategy, product/service development and sales.

I advised TenFarms on their media strategy and gave my 2c on other issues every now and then. I decided to take a step back from the company in May 2013, before their $2.7 million round (which was announced a few weeks later). I knew of this and stay true to my believes that the entrepreneurs should be entitled to consistent effort from all shareholders (and since I was more and more focused on UpCloud and unable to support TenFarms as much as I would have wanted to), I thus sold my shares before the round to make room for more people.

Helsinki, Fi

As the CEO, I have developed successful niche media products with a Northern European focus and also scaled the business from a garage startup to an established media company.We help companies get further with coverage and networking opportunities. In addition to companies, we also create value for venture capitalists looking to invest in Northern Europe by showcasing the most interesting companies out there.ArcticStartup tries to educate, entertain and inspire entrepreneurs and those working with technology focused growth companies.

Helsinki, Fi

Created the concept for ArcticStartup in the summer of 2007. I was the Chairman of the Board until December 2009 when I left my other company, Gyllene Skor, to work on ArcticStartup. I went on to work full time with ArcticStartup as the CEO.

Fi

We were an early stage technology investment company.We shut the company down in December 2011 to focus on our other projects.

Helsinki, Finland, Fi

One of the founding partners of the company. Worked with the fantastic team to get the company started and working. Responsibilities included managing of finances and sales as well as taking part in the sales and planning of customer projects. First full year of operations resulted in a turnover of nearly 900k€.Left the company in September 2009 after one of the most difficult summers ever (had to think really hard about leaving the company), to work on ArcticStartup as its CEO.

Personal sole proprietorship that I used to invoice clients while I was in university. Worked on several website projects. Later changed the legal form from a sole proprietorship to a limited liability company (Oy) to serve as my holding company for various projects I am involved with.

Fi

Responsible for global consumer sales, onsite marketing campaigns, launches of new markets and products. During my time as the sales director, revenues tripled to about 1,2 million euros.Was also part of the executive board after 3 months with the company.Left Apaja Online Entertainment to become a founding partner at Gyllene Skor.

Fi

Began work at Apaja Online Entertainment as a product marketing manager in charge of insite marketing and promotion. After three months, I was promoted to become part of the executive board and my title and responsibilities changed to those of the company's sales director.

Hampton, Nh, Us

Second part of my work with TBRC (after my exchange in Sydney, Australia) focused on finishing my thesis. I also authored an article with Sanna-Katariina Asikainen (Sundqvist) and Susanna Winter on the referral network structure and adoption behavior in online environments. The paper was later published in Journal of Interactive Advertising, Spring 2006 edition. I also finished my Master's Thesis and further focused it to how startups push their products into the mass markets with different marketing strategies.

First part of my work with TBRC relates to beginning work on my Master's Thesis. I was the first researcher accepted into the DAAMI program, funded by the Academy of Finland. My focus in my research was on diffusion of innovations and how marketing supports this.

Fi

I built the local student union website to support discussion between people regardless of time and space. I also redesigned and built the old HSE Mikkeli website and pushed forward the notion of continuing updates to keep people interested. This post gave me an excellent, yet quite technical view into working with people and solving their problems (not necessarily technical in nature) on a technology level.

Being in charge of Public Relations, I was the person that mainly handled our connections to the local businesses around our campus. I organised two events, first a day of entrepreneurship (I remember the rooms being packed with listeners) followed by a career day focusing on the different career paths. I enjoyed my post and wish I could have done it all over again once the year ended - great people and memorable events!

M.Sc., Marketing And Management

M.Sc., International Marketing

Bba, Business

Bba, International Business