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Consulting several companies who want to grow and expand to the global markets. RANCHISING® - franchising farming. Innovative & Sustainable farming.Recruiting entrepreneurs.Key duties: *Developing all kinds of sales, especially of quality food products. Developing farmers and increasing profitability*Franchising Management, Strategic planning with master franchisees, selecting franchisees*Developing franchising concept internationally, trademark registrations*New business models. "Aquaponics in restaurants" Plant-based foods*Creating high standard food value systems and adding value to aqua & agricultural activities*Living in Southern Africa, cultural and political observes for making business in Africa*Networking with universities, companies, NPO & NGOs in South Africa and in EU*Food supply chain FMCG*Mobile App development*Fundraising successfully, proposals for H2020 as well as domestic institutionsRANCHISING® is an agricultural chain business, franchising farming model, which helps farmers around the globe to achieve profitability and welfare in their farming. From farm to fork From sea to table. In Finland, it started with Highland Cows as the main Ranchising® - product. Visit http://hyvatuuli.fi/en/ Ranchising® concept uses the franchising model but rethinks the rural agriculture system. Key to Ranchising® is the reorganization of food supply chains that are more efficient and effective in terms of offering farmers income security. New farming models: Aquaculture, aquaponics. Developing mobile apps for farming, for traceability in the whole supply & value chain, to the cold chain.Ranchising® International: Networking globally with universities, institutes, and companies from Europe and Africa. Living in South Africa, taking the concept further with private companies, government, and NGOs. Adapting the Ranchising® model globally.Sustainability - making farming profitable again sharing economy from Farmer to Farmer.

During the years of 2015 - 2017 taking agricultural concept Ranchising from Finland to EU countries. Having presented the concept in Germany, Ireland, Great Britain and Italy. On the summer of 2015 was showing the concept in Como University on the Summer University. From there prepared for the rest of the year 2015 to create a solid project to expand in Southern Africa. Since the beginning of the year, 2016 have been living in South Africa and traveling to Botswana and Mozambique to show the model for agriculture and aquaculture.In the year 2017 was chosen to present the concept at the EU/AU Summit held in Ivory Coast, Abidjan. The company was selected among the 50 startups to develop the field of agriculture with new innovative farming models. During my time on Ivory Coast was invited to have several presentations at the Leadership for Agriculture Forum, organized by the African Development Bank, AfDB. On the conference had several negotiations with the Minister of Finance of Uganda and the Minister of Habitat, Lands, Infrastructure, and Land Transport of Seychelles. From the year 2018 created working relationships with the gov of South Africa as well as with the local provincial governments.

During the years of 2011 - 2015 was taking part with a few real estators to evaluate farms, bare land valuations and develop the sales of different properties and industrial properties. Companies were operating based on the franchising model.

Advising new businesses, and restaurants, on the formation of corporations and business structures, franchising, recruiting process outsourcing incl. direct search, ad-sales and marketing, and social media. Saska Oy has also been working in the field of HR consulting and sponsor marketing since 1994. My task has been as a sales director, business developer, advisor, and operating director for several cases and projects.

http://www.groupon.comLaunched in November 2008, Groupon features a daily deal on the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy in 45 countries. Groupon bought German company Citydeal in the spring of 2010. Same time it launched Citydeal business idea in Finland and franchisees in other Nordic countries. Finland started with three market areas, Helsinki, Tampere and Turku. My task was to spread the information via my business network and also making new business contracts between companies and Groupon. Educationally it was a huge opportunity to learn how you can plan and use the social media and make marketing schemes there, that really works - one of the many things where Groupon is the leader and way ahead several companies.

http://www.adecco.fiAdecco is the world's leading provider of Human Resources solutions. Adecco Finland Oy has been in operation since 1997. My task was to lead the sales operations and salespeople in a west coast district. Operating cities were Salo, Turku, Rauma and Pori. As well as selling and marketing the company's recruitment services and also doing the actual process from candidates pre/screening to the final shortlists. When Adecco was cutting their expenses I was closing offices as well as doing negotiations with reducing our own personal staff.

Recruitment consulting and executive search. Carriere was operating in the field of recruitment process outsourcing (RPO). Speciality in the field of travel and tourism. e.g.TUI Nordic. My main task for a fixed period was to create and open an office located in Turku. In the same time create a company brand, website, relationships with new customers and starting selling outplacement services as well as leading the sales team which was taking the role as an HR department on behalf the clients own HR department.

Uranus is a Finnish, privately-owned and web-based recruitment service. Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. Developed brand strategy and recruitment services including internet-based recruitment software for companies to ease recruitment and HR-processes. Key tasks as a sales&operations director were also franchising sales & marketing. Increasing the company's sales of outplacement services, headhunting services both in recruiting on assignment as well as in entrepreneurial side, recruiting for chains like Finnmatkat, Kotipizza, Laatutakuu, Hairstore, etc. Networking Uranus. Creating new business models:http://www.taloussanomat.fi/arkisto/2003/04/01/franchising-hakee-uutta-vauhtia-palvelusektorilta/200322185/12

Lehonpalo Oy is a media agency that also arranged several trade fairs such as REKRY, a recruitment exhibition in Helsinki, Tampere and Turku. Our cooperation with The Federation of Finnish Enterprises ( Suomen Yrittäjät) was to help the organization to get plenty of new advertisers to their various products of printing media. The company also arranged most of theinvestors up to Federations publishing products by advertorials and commercial ads. In the field of fair marketing – fair organizing we sold and arranged recruiting fairs in Helsinki, Turku and Tampere from 1998 to 2001. Customers were among the top 500 companies in Finland and several franchising companies abroad, searching for both master franchisee and franchisees.

http://www.imponline.com/IMP (International Masters Publishers) creates products to inspire and inform its customers. High quality collections for the home and family. From cooking to crafting, gardening to home repair, computers to classical music, IMP has a wide range of original collections for all ages. Each one is clearly written and brought to life through beautiful photography and imaginative illustrations. As a telemarketing manager I was developing the sales in Finland as well as in the nordic countries.

United Food Corporation Finland was selling goods and products to restaurants and also having their own franchising stores in various places in Finland. Their main article was corn on the cobs which they was importing from Israel and selling in the summer events thorough the country. We created a franchise-based chain “Corn Company” for summer activities,summer festivals where it run several points selling grilled corn on the cobs. My job description was creating the infrastructure, imagefor the company, making deals with the licensees and negotiate with the business place owners and recruit new franchisees to the company.

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