Erik Pöntiskoski Email & Phone Number

Kalasatama, Uusimaa, Fi

We do more than games. We Do Dreams. Our mission is to craft shared moments of thrill for players. We're the makers of Drive Ahead! - a gladiatorial arena racing games where you get points by knocking friends in the head with a car. It's the best of Head-to-Head Battlers with over 225 million organic downloads by 2022. Other than hiring people smarter and better than me, I try to make sure everyone at Dodreams feels that we have a vision worthy of aspiration. I listen to people and get the skills, capabilities and resources we need to get there.This job has taught me to be more agile as a developer and humble as a leader. I've learned how important it is to make sure people have faith in success together. You cannot trust that it happens by itself with good performance. We have to identify and remove any blocker for creativity, productivity, satisfaction, and happiness on the job.

Vice Chairman for the association of Finnish game developer studios

Entertainment and software startup creating personalized and social audiovisual entertainment for consumers on the iPad and Facebook based on my PhD research at the Aalto University.

Espoo, Espoo, Fi

Multiple positions at the Aalto University and Helsinki School of Economics before that. Most recently Educational Activist for the Aalto Ventures Program. Before that, PhD researcher and lecturer in marketing. More specifically strategic marketing, social media marketing, business models and venturing with special focus on the media and entertainment businesses.While employed at the university, I was visiting Scholar at the KEIO Business School (Tokyo / Yokohama, Japan) with Professor Kazuhiro Asakawa. Fly-in Lecturer at Grenoble Ecole de Management (France) with Professor Olivier Cateura. Later helped kick off the Aalto Ventures Program (http://avp.aalto.fi/), a minor study program on entrepreneurship in collaboration with the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.