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Building the team for the (future's) biggest sports media in Finland. Negotiating partnerships, selling the ad inventory and running the company are some of the tasks that are part of my responsibilities.

Planning, gathering team and funding, negotiating and contracting purchase of Accuscore – the global leader in sports forecasting - during 9 months in 2013-14. After the purchase in charge of operations, business development and strategy as well as new service and content development. Also IT development planning and resource sourcing and allocation are part of the day to day duties. Selling the core of the company’s IP to the NASDAQ-listed company with 20x value.Joint planning with key B2B clients for prediction data usage and creating added value for their services to connect sports fans are key activities to drive further value to clients in betting companies, media, sports rights holders and brands.Analysing customer behaviour and value from marketing via acquisition to keeping and retaining each B2C customer. Marketing ROI and customer lifetime value calculations are part of weekly operations.Development of new services like advanced analytics for ice hockey, automated betting solutions, and new eSport predictions as well as constant improvements of current sports predictions algorithms are part of day-to-day operations.Building extensive network of sports betting operators and suppliers to expand B2B services to Europe and Asia. Speaker in many betting conferences and panels.

Running contract brewery, design beer recipes and responsible of the business development.

Singapore, Singapore, Sg

Created a complete business plan for a start-up company. Wall of Sport aggregates sports information from multiple sources in internet, integrates social media and provides predictions for fans to follow their favourite sport anytime, anywhere.Gathered funding for launching Wall of Sport in Singapore and Finland. Launching activities included recruitment of the core team, selecting an IT development vendor and building key partnerships in sports media ecosystem.Acted as CEO and managed day to day operations with COO. Negotiations of contracts with customers (ad networks), rights holders (leagues, brokers and media houses) and suppliers were main duties during this stage of start-up operations.

Dublin 2, Ie

- Developed new business models for digital media and created new point of views for gaming and gambling industries- Leading implementation of business intelligence solution for a large telecommunication operator in Philippines. Managing multiple vendors and integrators that created project team of 50+ highly skilled professionals. Weekly reporting to CIO, CFO and other C-level stakeholders.- Creating new business models and researching suitable go to market strategy for company entering digital music market in Apac- Ramping up global sports industry practice with unique solutions for different sports organizations- Post merger process deployment country manager and program manager in Philippines, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam for a big telecommunication client. This merger is one of the biggest in all the business areas during recent years. Managing a project team of 50 highly skilled management consulting and telecommunication business professionals for end to end process and SAP system (SD/MM/FICO) implementation. - Project manager for Green logistics solution development project for Fortune 100 client. New process, IT solution as well as co-operation practices with suppliers in order to gather CO2 footprint from global supply chain operations were designed and analysed in this project.- Working together with World Economic Forum annual meeting in 2010 for visionary work of “New information based business models for transportation”. Leading this work as a project manager and providing discussion paper for CEO roundtable for the visions of the transportation and logistics business models in 2015.- Responsible of end to end sales cycle for communication and high tech clients in management consulting for SE-Asia supply chain management practice. Been running multiple contract negotiations with Fortune 500 clients as well as contract shaping process from initial talks until final agreement

Dublin 2, Ie

- Lead of the sustainability practice in Accenture Finland 01/08 – 12/08. Support for all industry areas as a subject matter expert in the wide range of sustainability and environmental projects and other activities. Drive initiatives further with client partners and conduct survey of current sustainability status of top companies in Finland.- Post merger end to end process alignment in the one of the biggest merger in telecommunication ever. As a process coordinator my team handled all the process changes during post merger process implementation. SAP implementation for SD/MM/FICO modules was part of this 1,5 years project.- Project manager and outbound logistics subject matter expert for leading mobile phone client’s transportation enhancement project. Co-operation with world’s biggest logistics service providers was very tight during the solution implementation phase. Process development, system development, testing, training and implementation into 3 regions as well as 9 factories were part of this project that lasted for 1 year. - Deploying telecommunication client’s SAP systems in the filed of logistics for 2,5 years. Acting role as a team leader for global concept owners, that includes development current processes as well as overseeing possible SAP development. Projects were successfully accomplished in various European countries as well as in 8 Asian countries. Location Beijing.

Establishing a metal instruction factory in the cooperation with local companies, schools and public sector. Consulting of local companies in the field of supply chain management, sourcing and warehouse design as well as management. Clients were mainly in machinery, but also in the field of industrial automation.

Pricing different freight forwarding services and handling operations (container and break bulk) to various destinations around the world.

Flight instructor mainly for instrument student pilots. Instructing in flight lessons, in simulator lessons and in a ground school.

Handling operations of two steamship lines between Finland and Eastern Mediterranean. Main cargo was paper and timber from Finland and some chemicals to Finland in containers and as a break-bulk.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Sports Management

Msc, Business Administration

Beng, Logistics

Flight Instructor, Aviation

Commercial Pilot, Aviation

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