Kimmo Karimäki Email & Phone Number

As the leader of the IoT-TICKET business at Wapice Ltd., I am responsible for driving revenue and spearheading the growth of our business. IoT-TICKET stands as the premier, and the biggest IoT and AI/ML platform in the Nordics, known for its cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions.My role encompasses:Strategic Growth: Steering our business expansion, ensuring sustained growth and market penetration.Product and Innovation Investment: Continuously investing in our product and integrating the latest advancements in AI and machine learning to deliver unparalleled value to our customers, enhance user experience and usability, and keep us at the forefront of technological advancements.Sales and Marketing: Investing in sales, marketing, and partnerships to drive growth and enhance our market presence.Process Optimisation: Investing in processes and transforming our business into a scalable SaaS model.Executive Leadership: Serving as a member of the Wapice management team, reporting directly to the CEO of Wapice Ltd.I am committed to cultivating a culture of innovation and excellence, positioning IoT-TICKET to challenge industry leaders, drive technological advancements, and empower our customers to grow through IoT and AI solutions.

Finland

Offering consultancy services based on my experience from different roles.Creating and evolving company brand, designing visual look & feel and tone of voice. Formulating marketing messages, creating marketing materials, including videos.Concepting, designing and developing Internet websites and web-based mobile applications, including apps utilising big data and analytics. Also optimising websites for search engines.Illustrating house interior designs with 3D-modeling with good quality image rendering.

Building partnerships and helping companies to grow with Customer eXprerience. Responsible for creating a partner strategy, portfolio and programme ensuring HappyOrNot growth. Creating global sales and marketing strategies together with VP of Channel Sales. Working as a consultant, coach, analyst and a strategic partner for Sales Management.Generating new sales and developing long-term and lucrative relationships with a portfolio of partners. With consultant mindset finding, understanding and formulating the value of Customer and Employee Experience to companies all around the Europe. Helping our customers together with our partners to achieve their short and long-term business and revenue targets.As a part of the work, identifying, recruiting and on-boarding new partners to build solid business for HappyOrNot.With personal portfolio of partners, being accountable for sales forecasting and partner sales in Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Setting targets, quotas and goals to the partners ensuring success for both them and HappyOrNot.During 2019 and 2020 generated several hundreds of thousands of new sales. COVID-19 crisis hit the company extremely hard and therefore leaving the company in summer 2020.

Finland

CXO and innovator in Industrial Prime which was an international news media company concentrating on industrial companies. Industrial Prime shared how globally influential companies viewed the future of industry, upcoming trends and opportunities.Responsible for customer exprience, all technical solutions, channels, decisions and implementations leveraging the publicity, spreading the media and keeping cost effective infrastructure.Increased knowledge of business strategies and economics, customer relations, marketing, role of social media and new technologies.

Leading the productisation, marketing and communication of Leanware's first cloud-based Warehouse Management System (cloudWMS).Successfully productised a new WMS service, formulated the delivery process and led the pilot project. Traditional Finnish textile manufacturer Finlayson Oy was the first customer for cloudWMS and it got extremely good results starting from day 1 to deliver goods all around the globe.Account manager and customer interface as a Product Owner for several industrial companies in Finland. As a bonus, leading agile development team, running webinars and educating stakeholders.

Leading the project of defining new software quality standard for Microsoft Phones.Conceptor and Project manager of telemetry, big data and traditional test results based ready for sales decision dashboards and physical control and situation room.Defining business needs, prioritizing scope and schedules, finding cost effective solutions and being interface to subcontractors and vendors.

Responsible for defining top applications’ quality statement for each device ready for sales review, including possible risks and overall application quality recommendation for device approvals.Analyzing and reporting quality, statistical data, user feedback, issues and news of top applications in device portfolio level. Weekly basis created analysis report for Phones Leadership Team top management.On top of quality, analyzing and reporting, representing Phones Quality in Universal Windows Platform Bridge defining quality gates for Microsoft Phones portfolio.

Leading a global team of experienced project managers in four different locations.Prioritizing projects, defining processes, ways of working and allocating project management resources based on business needs.Responsible for all Windows Phone pre-installed partner applications globally, ensuring that every device has pre-installation plan and controlling it is executed as planned.Working with the biggest and most recognized software and mobile application companies in the world making sure that hundreds of applications shipped with devices meet demanding schedules, have good quality and contracts are negotiated in time and signed correctly.

Tampere

Leading a global team of experienced project managers in four different locations.Prioritizing projects, defining processes, ways of working and allocating project management resources based on business needs.Responsible for all Windows Phone pre-installed partner applications globally, ensuring that every device has pre-installation plan and controlling it is executed as planned.Working with the biggest and most recognized software and mobile application companies in the world making sure that hundreds of applications shipped with devices meet demanding schedules, have good quality and contracts are negotiated in time and signed correctly.

Project manager for application and content deliveries globally and locally.Accountable for project coordination and schedules, content quality and readiness, financial tracking, and final end to end verification management.Customer interface between Nokia, development partners and 3rd party companies and also an internal interface between development and management.

Marketing stories, marketing materials and whitepapers about Nokia user interfaces and user experience which were used also in executive level presentations and speeches.Competitor analysis with understanding of customer needs, upcoming trends, operator requirements and internal development.Presentations for external audiences like investors and analysts in Nokia Capital Market Day and several discussions and meetings with partners and with the world largest mobile operators.Project managing external companies in UIX marketing and directing several marketing videos.Formed understanding of collaboration and usage of different marketing methods and messages for different channels.

User experience lead for several user interface concepting projects and UX designer of Symbian devices’ Home screen user interface, where the most recognized were used in Nokia XpressMusic and ESeries devices.Project managing subcontractor companies, creating materials for marketing and giving presentations to world largest mobile operators.Inventor of two user interface patents used by millions of people which were highly visible in Nokia marketing materials and devices out of the box.

User Interface SW Design engineer developing S60 WLAN graphical user interface.

Created Master of Science thesis “A Fully Automated Build System for Nokia S60 Java Platform” in Nokia Technology Platforms which sped up the process and increased the quality.Master of Science thesis = grade of Very Good (4 out of 5)