Mika Kurkipää Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

After learning a lot at Unikie I have returned to my Automotive Software roots at Rightware. And I'm very happy to be back. What I wrote in 2018 (below) still stands. There is more AR, VR and advanced 3D related projects, a new office and Kanzi One. In the beginning of December 2018 I started at my dream job as an Account Manager at Rightware. I’m working in a great team of enthusiastic people with really interesting customers, partners and projects. I get to work with leading automotive manufacturers and their partners when they develop tomorrow’s digital instrument clusters, infotainment (IVI), HUDs and more. Rightware and it’s Kanzi product family offers top of the line HMI software and connectivity technology that enable branded user experience in connected cars and other vehicles.As a car, racing and technology enthusiast I feel that I have a perfect position and I really look forward to each day at work.

Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland

Helsinki Area, Finland

In the beginning of December 2018 I started at my dream job as an Account Manager at Rightware. I’m working in a great team of enthusiastic people with really interesting customers, partners and projects. I get to work with leading automotive manufacturers and their partners when they develop tomorrow’s digital instrument clusters, infotainment (IVI), HUDs and more. Rightware and it’s Kanzi product family offers top of the line HMI software and connectivity technology that enable branded user experience in connected cars and other vehicles.As a car, racing and technology enthusiast I feel that I have a perfect position and I really look forward to each day at work.

Worked in helping IT- and software vendors to gain market share and succeed in the Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian Retail-, BtoB- and home electronics market. Co-operated with most key distributors and resellers in whole Nordic opening doors and boosting sales in a cost effective way.

For the first two years until September 2009 as account manager for Finland and Denmark handling both retail and corporate customer and distribution relations and sales. As LaCie sold both directly to reseller and indirectly through distribution this position required a lot of balancing between the two. Being the only employee in Finland required taking care of mostly everything from sales to support and events to marketing.Since September 2009 took over the management of the whole Nordic office as Nordic Area Manager managing the account managers, local support and logistics personnel and a finance manager. And naturally still taking care of sales and relations to the most important customers including Tech Data, Also, Komplett, Dustin, Verkkokauppa, Expert, Anttila, Stockmann, Media Saturn, Atea and Business Forum to mention a few. Duties also included pricing for whole Nordics in all four currencies. Personal targets were based on sales and operating income of LaCie AB. For fiscal year 2013 we reached and past our Nordic operating income by 1000% (thousand).During the past two years LaCie has been fully acquired by Seagate Technology and there has been several re-structuring rounds. My main focus has been Lacie distribution in whole Nordics and total channel responsibility in Finland and Denmark for both Lacie and Seagate Brands on external hard drives.

Responsible for Asus sales to Finnish distributors and resellers. At that time the only representative for Asus in Finland.