Steve Jackson Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, FI

Helsinki, Southern Finland, FI

In June 2023 my tenure as CEO of Toristy came to an end as we merged with Lion Ventures backed InDest. This new role allows me to focus on building the business directly with partners, developing digital and data driven services whilst remaining part of the management going forward.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, FI

In April 2019 I became the largest owner in Toristy and took the role CEO full time. Toristy is an In Destination distributor and online software as a service serving the tour, activity and experiences sector of the travel industry. Our vision is to distribute the worlds most diverse global travel experiences in destination. To do this means we've made it.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, FI

Between March and December 2018 we did our own research and development into the travel experience economy by developing our own pilot project https://pedal.world which is now a fully functional marketplace in its own right with mountain biking services represented in 6 countries. We started the Toristy development alongside this R&D as we learned what.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, FI

Now the MVP is launched and the early stage product is ready my role has changed into more of an advisory position in marketing, PR and content development. Driving global awareness through value creation and educating the market about what this product can do is the next step. I'm in awe watching the product develop and it's an honour being part of the.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, FI

We believe we can change the way the industry uses drones by providing the pilots with an augmented reality view into the situation at hand, making operations safer, more productive and more intuitive to use. My role on the board as a founding investor was to help steer the company in its very early start up mode whilst in it's research and development.

It doesn't really matter what industry you work in, you're going to use data in some way or form.It's like that quote from the Godfather movie, "Just when you think you are out, they pull you back in!" This is a freelance operation that I started in November/December 2021 to take on interesting projects related to web analytics and in particular, the.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, FI

Quru is a Digital Analytics and marketing consultancy which is part of SEK.Achievements as CEO;- Made the company EBITDA positive in the first year from a poor position.- Negotiated a successful sale of the company to SEK in 2016.- Responsible for the acquisition of Super analytics (now Quru Abo) in December 2017.- Increased the combined gross margins by.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, FI

In August 2009 I co-founded Kwantic with a little help from our partner Frantic a full service digital agency from Helsinki. In April 2012 Kwantic acquired the Finnish business of Timgu and the resulting merger resulted in a brand change. We became Quru on June 15th 2012.As CAO I was on the management team and responsible for consulting key clients.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, FI

Founded and helped finance the company Kwantic and was part of the team effort to acquire the Finnish operations of Timgu which resulted in the brand changing to Quru.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, FI

Kwantic holding was a holding company for the shareholders of Quru. I founded the holding company and represented the shareholders in the board of Quru Oy until I was appointed CEO of Quru.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, FI

Trainers' House merged with Satama - this was a progression of the role I was doing in Satama in Trainers' House. Basically I was the leading consultant in the field of analytics in Trainers' House.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, FI

After Satama acquired Aboavista our focus changed from serving mainly SME clients to mainly the large enterprises. The client engagements I worked on were about doing the things we did for smaller companies at scale. Suddenly I was talking about improving conversion rates across 64 markets and 10s of millions of visitors per month per customer rather than.

Matteson, IL, US

Served as International Co-Chair and helped develop the Web Analytics Association in Finland and the Nordics.

Aboavista was the first company in Finland to do Conversion rate optimization. In fact it was one of the first in Europe. At the time many companies in Finland didn't believe what we were doing was even possible and the bulk of our work came from the USA and the UK. We served companies such as Nokia, Sanoma, Sonera, MTV3 and other big brands but in the.

Upon leaving the UK for Finland I joined Viola Systems, a company that created technology allowing everyday industrial technology like elevators to be attached to the Internet. This in turn allowed that equipment to be maintained remotely. Basically these guys were pioneers in what's now called Internet of Things (IoT) but for the industrial sector.I was.

Developed the website marketing/copywriting for the North East Press suite of websites.Developed the web analytics strategy (using WebTrends 5), including the onsite implementation and the backend administration to measure the traffic across the NEP websites.Responsible for the marketing/programming/content of 7 websites with combined visitor counts of.

Seaham, County Durham, GB

Responsible for coding websites, direct marketing coding and testing creative for the direct mail industry.Role involved A/B/C/D testing of print runs across millions of mailshots being sent across the UK. Involved with testing creatives and developing databases for direct marketing purposes. Also worked on developing the early website presence as well as.

Northville, Michigan, US

Worked as a quality technician utilizing TQM (total quality management) principles and KAIZEN theory across manufactured products for the automotive industry. Responsible for statistical analysis techniques and measurement of product samples to determine whether batches worth 100s of millions per annum to the company were fit for purpose before dispatch to.

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology

Onc - Quality Assurance, Quality Control Technology/Technician

Ond, Business & Finance