Ilona Suominen Email & Phone Number

Tampere, Fi

My role at Gofore is to develop our partner ecosystem in Finland and globally by creating win-win-win relationships for our customers, us and our partners within Intelligent Industry and Digital Society. ✨💪

Tampere Metropolitan Area

At Gofore, we believe digitalization can and should be a force for good. We aim to be our customers' most strategic digital ally in times of change. We help them to identify and embrace new digital ways of thinking and doing that will have a positive impact on their business and society.

Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland

We're developing digital tools & expert network for creating more uplifting self-talk - asset that can make all the difference in one's quality of life.We're launching our crystallised offering soon and looking forward to developing our toolkit forward together with growth-minded business spirits! 🤩

Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland

I established Healing Business Day from the desire to help people to make self-knowledge their best asset. I believe by strengthening your self-awareness and holistic wellbeing, we can all be better together and thrive - in and outside the workplace.

Tampere

Evolta is a globally oriented company focusing on digitalization of building permit application transactions. Our rewarded eService, Lupapiste (Grand One 2015: Best B2B-service in Finland), is utilized in 60% of all the municipalities in Finland and developed together with its users and partners. Now the snowball effect has started also in North America - in a big time.After being responsible for both Marketing and Coaching before my first maternity leave (see my Solita Ltd experience below), I wanted to widen my perspective surrounding our business. As a Community Manager I have helped built environment officials to better serve their customers online by utilizing our services and also bringing vital customer insight for our product/business development. This means that sales, customer care and acting as a "messenger from the field" has been at the center of my role. I have also been responsible for seeking out an support/education platform for our over 100 000 users, creating & updating sales material and boosting our eServices with our partners all over Finland.

Tampere

Solita is a digital transformation company driven by data and human insight. When working at Solita in our Lupapiste business unit (became a subsidiary for Solita, Evolta Ltd, in May 2017), I had two main responsibilities:1) As a Marketing & Communications Manager I was in charge of e.g. planning, creating and executing marketing activities (sales material, campaigns, events, newsletters, digital marketing), spreading and receiving service-related information (update releases, user instructions, gathering customer feedback, facilitating peer-to-peer discussions online and offline) and overall business & product development with our team.2) As a Service Coach I was in charge of training and motivating our users into totally new kind of way of working online. Besides being responsible for creating the new online customer service process together with our stakeholders, I held training sessions for our users all over Finland and offered support for their operational development. Getting authorities to provide customer service in a new transparent way or developing our service to match our users` needs was not a simple task since built environment permitting was a really paper-intensive sector with complex legislation and local processes - not to mention the most important thing: with various capabilities and mindsets towards the change.

Tampere

TeamUp was a sponsorship marketing and fan engagement platform that combined talents (= athletes, sports clubs, artists), fans and businesses in a context of a new social media community. As an Account Manager my daily task was to reach out for businesses of all sizes and open their eyes for this innovative way of sponsorship utilization plus help them to get the marketing benefits out of their presence in our community. This meant that sales and customer care was at the center of my role.We got a lot of businesses and talents to join our community and TeamUp got global attention for its ground-breaking, patented ideas (e.g. MindTrek, Red Herring) but unfortunately not enough to pay for the needed product development. Still I am really thankful for those TeamUp-related memories and valuable lessons learned - it was a ride!

Munich Area, Germany

Munich Innovation Group is a leading service provider for intellectual property monetization and research on a global scale. During my Internship at MIG I was responsible for developing IPR business opportunities for patent holders in Finland and acting as a sole representative for our Finnish partners. This meant I sought out interesting high-tech patents, contacted the owners of these and tried to match them with companies that were interested in buying them. I also learned a lot of the complex IPR industry by analysing the processes within Intellectual Property protection and monetization.

Helsinki

Dream Broker is an online video software company that offers a SaaS platform for creating, editing and sharing instruction videos. Dream Broker was selected as the fastest-growing technology company in Finland in 2012 (#1 Deloitte Fast 50 Finland 2012).As a sales representative I was responsible for acquiring new customers by interacting daily with corporate directors in the field of e.g. IT, HR and Communications. Big part of the sales work was planning new ways for personnel communications (e.g. for it-system roll-outs) complemented by our video tutorial possibilities. This meant thoroughly understanding the needs of a customer and creating new ways for learning with the help of visual online education material. My other work tasks included Marketing, HR and PR activities such as organising fairs and seminars for our stakeholders and coordinating events for our staff.I had absolutely great two years with Dream Broker. I gained a lot of top experiences and got to create something big with my awesome colleagues. Great time at a great place.

Turku

RandH Group is a Finnish real estate company that is specialized in developing and renting properties in a customer-oriented way.As a sales and customer coordinator I was responsible for marketing (phone, emails, updating brochures) and showcasing our premises. I also participated to the contract negotiations and took care off some general office tasks. All in all, I received valuable insight on how to market, manage and develop properties in a way that maximises customer satisfaction and lifecycle of the properties.

Turku

NewLiner is a Finnish plumping renovation company utilizing modern methods in their field of operation. As a Sales Assistant I was responsible for helping out NewLiner in some current sales targets by organising and executing different sales-related activities. I for example interacted with decision makers around real estate sector and participated in fairs showcasing NewLiner services.

Basic And Topical Studies, Work And Organisation Psychology

Exploring intriguing human mind and ways we thrive together during my study leave at the University of Eastern Finland. 🤓 My basic.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Law, Marketing, Accounting And Finance

Activities and Societies: I was in charge of the sets at the first TuKY Speksi ever: "Kummaa Kutinaa" in 2009. Even though I`m not that.

Business Administration - International Exchange Program

I was an exhange student at Kasetsart University in Bangkok during spring 2010 (January-May). I had awesome time there studying eg..

Baccalaureate

Activities and Societies: -Member of Alavus Youth Council -Spokesman of Alavus Youth Council at Technical Board & Basic social security.