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São Paulo, São Paulo, BR

Helping the fastest-growing Privileged Access Management vendor in the world grow even faster.

Qaava provides advisory services for growth-hungry tech companies. Qaava helps you: ☑︎ distill and sharpen your core message to customers, investors, and other stakeholders☑︎ fine-tune and focus your strategy and business model to maximize chances of success☑︎ become fundable, get staffed, ramp up, and build processes for sustainable growth

Helsinki, Finland, FI

Helped Reflector maintain its sales activities after the sudden departure of the previous sales director and helped find a new permanent sales director. Grew sales by 60%, initiated more systematic prospecting, and helped sign several new customers.

Helsinki, FI

Renewed company web presence. Responsible for investor communications and public funding portfolio.

Helsinki, FI

Responsible for Marketing, Sales, and Customer Services. Rehauled our US organization. Doubled the sales force, revamped lead generation. Member of the Executive Management Team.

Helsinki, FI

Responsible for strategy development, investor communications, and corporate development. Led the development of our reorg and the SSH200 Growth Vision. Led the team that successfully raised more than €2M in EU H2020 funding. Member of the Executive Management Team.

Helsinki, FI

Responsible for strategy development, investor communications, and corporate development. Led the development of our new strategic direction and lead the effort to start inside sales and online sales. Helped raise EUR 7 M in funding in 2017 and lead the team that negotiated the Kyberleijona joint venture in 2018. Member of the Executive Management Team.

Helsinki, FI

Ran the day-to-day operations of SSH. Led sales teams that closed several multi-million euro deals. Planned and executed a company turnaround that ended the string of losses and returned the company to a solid financial footing. Member of the Executive Management Team.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, FI

Took a startup to the US with a shoestring budget: opened an office, recruited first staff, closed the largest deal in company history.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, FI

Helped the CEO make better choices.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, FI

Told the world the good news about the bttn – the Simplest Internet User Interface Ever. Created one of the most successful crowd funding campaings in Finland to date (Indiegogo). Build initial IT stack, including marketing automation and customer support.

Espoo, FI

Helping fledgling entrepreneurs to validate their business model, get traction, and find seed investments with the rest of the Spinno team.

Founded a company to revolutionize the clothing industry with laser-scanning and individualized designs. Responsible for the vision, fund-raising, and communications/marketing. Started manufacturing operation in China, opened six stores in three countries. Wound down the company after funding dried.

Espoo, FI

Helping guide a leading quality assurance firm towards an even more exciting future.

Co-Founder and Partner in a management consulting and M&A advisory company helping technology companies achieve profitable exits faster and with fewer risks. Grew the company from zero to a Top 20 consultancy in Finland in less than 5 years. Successfully helped clients raise VC and other types of funding and advised clients in several successful exits.

San Francisco, California, US

An evangelist and change agent for the Next Big Things. Helped shape the strategy and direction of a UX/Brand/Strategy consultancy that was later acquired by CapGemini for €100M+.

Espoo, Uusimaa, FI

Helped grow company revenue 140 % and profitability 1000 % in one year. Increased staff from 7 to 15. Consolidated position with major customers, started international sales and secured first foreign pilot orders. Introduced key processes and revamped company marketing communications.

Wrote a regular column to the leading digital business and IT publication in Finland.

Chairman for a newly started book store.

Took over as the CEO of a struggling telco hardware manufacturer in a crisis situation.

CEO of an accelerator company responsible for the development of a VC firm's (Nexit Ventures) portfolio companies.

Helped restructure and downsize the company to survive the meltdown.

Helsinki, Helsinki, FI

Responsible for the development of portfolio companies in a Finnish-US venture capital firm focusing on wireless and broadband technologies.

Seattle, Washington, US

Wrote the first business plan and investment memo (that schitzophrenic for you) for the company, recruited initial staff, and started operations. After recruiting a permanent CEO, concentrated on strategy again. Abandonded the GSM direction of the company and set it on the WiFi course it is still on.Ekahau was recently acquired by Ookla for €100M+.

Responsible for the business development and M&A activities in a listed IT services firm. Completed 6 acquisitions within a span of one year. Also responsible for international business operations.

Co-Founder and Partner of a consulting company that helped European high-tech companies establish themselves in the US market.

Legalized industrial espionage, I suppose.

Helsinki, FI

Msc, Industrial Management, Computer Science

Non-Degree Studies, Radical Innovations

Product Manager, Strategic Product Management

Non-Degree Studies, Social Psychology

Non-Degree Studies, Linguistic Anthropology