Lauri Saviranta Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Driving and delivering Commerce Platform in the Electric Vehicle charging domain.Product strategy and P&L responsibility for how Virta enables our customers and platform participants to grow in EV Charging transaction business effortlessly, efficiently, and profitably - by providing the best EV charging UX for EV drivers.

Responsible for Virta's Modular Platform as a Product for our large customers managing and growing a Professional EV Charging Network and EV Charging Services globally. My team focuses on enabling customers (and internal teams) to solve their business growth, UX and operational needs with the Virta Platform including financials, transactions, application interfaces, integrations and partnerships. In addition, I ensure that the platform architecture serves business growth.

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Leading product development and responsible for Virta's products that enable our customers and partners provide EV Charging Services to EV Drivers.

Helsinki Area, Finland

Developing and designing consumer services and growing consumer business in Virta and through Virta's partner network.

Helsinki. Finland

I supported company leadership, typically in multi-company settings, to conceptualise and productise new services. I worked as a subcontractor for larger consultancy houses and directly with clients. As tools I used service design and generally user-oriented and design methods. In my experience those provide the best means both to find opportunities using user data and to engage in creative and challenging cross-organizational teamwork with designerly facilitation. I created and visualised early-phase service prototypes, concepts and user narratives among with business and sales pitches for decision making.Example projects I've undertaken:- user research for a new transportation service- facilitation of collaborative new service development for a new transportation service- internal investment pitch for a major eMobility company- service prototypes for a major eMobility company- user opinion collection portal for political decision-making- visioning future mobile tickets for a Finnish transportation company- a number of reports and user guides for sahkoinenliikenne (electric traffic) -project- sahkoinenliikenne.fi portal

Helsinki, Finland

Finalizing my dissertation and research articles on tensions interorganizational service business development.Research interests: Collaborative Business Development, New Service Development, Service Design, Digitalization of transportation industry, Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS).Previous: -G3 health project: value-based management of healthcare-Doctoral research in Ecuador in joint business development and social entrepreneurship. -A research project linked to health technology firms' business ecosystems and business models.

Finland

The ability to exploit opportunities that business ecosystems render is the key competitive advantage for companies in today's business. The thesis develops a toolkit to navigate in business ecosystems for a single firm. Thesis is done as a part of a larger eHealth ecosystems research project with eight partner companies.

Conducting research concerning electronic healthcare systems, business models and business ecosystems.

I was responsible for helping the students in my department in their study related issues, such as curriculum selection and course related applications. Also responsible for communicating study-related issues to the students.

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Co-owner, advisor, exec coach and at times engaged in operating a high-end ice-cube sales family business. Tripled revenue until right before the covid hit.

Helsinki, Finland

Esys is a foundation that supports students from Southern Finland.

Helsinki, Finland

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Part-time work while studying. A Truck driver delivering items from mail, kitchens and symphony orchestras to beverages and soil. Worked for five smaller companies where usually during holidays I was responsible for the whole company results.

Finland

Teaching in elementary / grammar schools for various periods.Subjects: mainly mathematics and physics. Occasionally chemistry, visual arts, music, English, Spanish, French, religion, handicraft

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Two summers working for hotel houskeeping between high-school semesters.

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

First summer job working as a handyman in renovating the national theater

(Drop-Out Of) Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Engineering/Industrial Management

Researching tensions in inter-organizational service business development, in the context of new digital mobility services (such as MaaS).

Executive Product Leadership Program

Product Leadership training in scaling and scaled companies run by Melissa Perri. Focus on strategising, team leadership, executive.

M.Sc. (Tech), Industrial Engineering & Mgmt, Service Engineering & Mgmt, Bio Technology

Graduated as Master of Science in Technology in February 2013.

Matriculation Examination, High School

Activities and Societies: Choir, Year book

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Physics / Teaching Physics, Studies Put On Hold

Activities and Societies: Eteläsuomalainen osakunta (Student Nation for Southern Finnish Students) [Member of the board 2008-2010, Vice.