Experienced and skilled creative director and product lead with a long history in games industry, technology and design. Currently building a fresh social collaboration & betting service, and disrupting digital sales & productisation of services. Previously co-founded the legendary Finnish game community Aapeli and helped make the brand the second most well known in Finland among young people, after Google. Has collaborated with different sized game-, createch-, edutech- and health tech- companies solving design, usability and technical challenges.
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Senior Lead, AiSitraHelsinki, Fi -
Co-Founder, Chief Product OfficerGigle Oct 2024 - PresentHelsinki, Uusimaa, Finland -
Co-Founder, Chief Product OfficerGigle Sep 2016 - PresentHelsinki Metropolitan AreaGigle digitizes and modernizes live performance / experience / coaching management, productization and sales with a white label SaaS product. -
Technical DirectorPikl Worldwide Apr 2023 - Oct 2024Los Angeles, United States / Helsinki, FinlandWe designed and built a social scheduling & networking app Poney for US/Californian market, for managing real life activities like Pickleball and creating fun bets with your friends. My work was split to UX/CX/UI design and implementing that design in a mobile app, developed with Flutter within a tight team built from game industry veterans. Fun project, awesome people, good learnings.
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Side GigsFreelance Apr 2016 - Jun 2023Helsinki Metropolitan AreaDuring my ‘free’ years I’ve helped startups & established organizations - from UX / tech consulting to product/app development to book design & illustration to user flow optimization to mobile app development (arts, entertainment, IoT, health tech, education).
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Creative DirectorPlayforia Inc Mar 2008 - Mar 2015Helsinki Metropolitan AreaMade games, avatars and collaborative content to web, facebook & mobile. We got to 1M+ MAU with our best title. -
Co-Founder, Creative DirectorApaja Creative Solutions Sep 2001 - Apr 2008Helsinki Metropolitan AreaAapeli was an online game service/community and the second best known brand in Finland among young people at the time. Aapeli-sites were available in 10+ countries. We had a virtual currency (Taateli), customizable avatars, subscriptions, achievement system and real time multiplayer online games in the early 2000s. Staff: 40+, international.
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Art DirectorSaunalahti Oyj / Jippii Group Oyj Apr 1999 - Sep 2001Helsinki, FinlandThe team ran the 2nd most popular website (news, forums, things) in Finland. I drew some of the first mobile phone logo, and one of the first Finnish online comics. International brand work for broadband & mobile phone services. Online, print, tv ads.
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