Rasmus Almqvist Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, Fi

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Helping Buildbite define and execute their global go-to-market strategy as well as building a network of partners.

Finland

Helping organizations grow by building and delivering Go To Market motions including defining ICPs, communication strategies, build partner ecosystems and initiating automated sales and marketing.

Helsinki Metropolitan Area

Responsible for growing the business and for building and nurturing an ecosystem of partners dedicated to helping customers transform the way they work.

Helsinki Metropolitan Area

I ran our program for global partnerships, ecosystem partners and channels.Proof BusinessGPS for Marketing & Sales guides and helps CMO’s and marketers to produce better results with fewer dollars. What set Proof apart was the automation of regression analytics to calculate and visualize the strength of the relationships between marketing investments and business results.

Helsinki Area, Finland

Responsible for relaunching a security solution called F-Secure Cloud Protection for Salesforce. Built a new, global, go to market engagement based on building awareness, educating the market and establishing thought leadership within the ecosystem. The results were stunning, constantly achieving +400% YoY growth rates, achieving a 1:20 ROI on marketing and lead conversation of up to +70%.

Reading, United Kingdom

Worked in a global team covering 11 Japanese global accounts. My role was to help my customers succeed through a digital transformation of their business. The role required consultative C-level engagements and the ability to orchestrate a virtual team of specialist resources.The most important and rewarding aspect of my job was the deep insights I got from my customers and the ability to turns these into actionable initiatives that ultimately resulted in my customers succeeding in the marketplace.

London, United Kingdom

In my role as a Product Sales Specialist for Cisco's complete range of Unified Communications solutions I focused on enterprise sized financial services and legal sector organizations.Key customer included Deutsche Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, UBS, Credit Suisse, PwC, E&Y, Clifford Chance, Linklaters, Allen & Overy and many more.I achieved significant YoY growth of revenues and managed to expand Cisco's existing installed base within the account as well as winning net new business within the accounts. All this was done through the close cooperation with the customers in identifying key operational priorities and aligning technology capability to support these.

Finland, Estonia, Latvia And Lithuania

Responsible for Collaboration Architecture Sales in Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and driving Cisco's Social Media engagement in Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.Acting as the key spokesperson and business development resource in the Baltics I managed to transform the partner landscape from being one focusing on low customer price to one focusing on business value and customer transformation.Significant YoY revenue growth and building of partner and customer engagement.

Responsible for Collaboration Architecture Sales in Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and driving Cisco's Social Media engagement in Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.Acting as the key business development resource in the region I managed to transform the partner landscape from being one focusing on low customer price to one focusing on business value and customer transformation.Significant YoY revenue growth and building of partner and customer engagement.Sales Champion in 2010, Sales Champion in 2012.

In this role I was part of a Nordic-wide sales team, responsible for driving Cisco’s SMB business in Finland. Together with my colleague we started Cisco’s SMB business in Finland. As no previous initiatives had been undertaken up until then I focused on building, educating and driving the reseller channels.I worked closely with distributors such as Azlan/Techdata and Ingram Micro in aligning joint product- and price promotions and partner development activities. During one year I managed to sign up more than 100 new registered resellers and managed to (properly) train and certify a total of 54 partner to “Select” certified status.Commercial achievements include growing the SMB business by 97% YoY (in year two) and rolling out a completely new line of products in Finland. Much of my success was the result of my ability to align internal resources to support my initiatives and my ability to spark enthusiasm and the belief in future commercial upsides for our partners.

In this role I was responsible for Business Development and Sales for the following hardware product categories within Skype: Entry Level products, Mac hardware and Skype for Business hardware. As my clout within Skype grew I also assumed the role of Account Manager for Nokia. During this period I managed to negotiate a significant commercial deal for Skype by enabling Skype’s software image to be embedded as pre-installed software on selected Nokia hardware platforms.Being responsible for selected hardware categories I worked closely with hardware suppliers, hardware distributors, merchandisers and retail channels in introducing Skype hardware in retail worldwide. The job included the creation and roll-out of a retail strategy which included go-to-market plans, creation of point-of-sale material, solutions catering to retail space management as well as packaging.

Helsinki Area, Finland

QuickBit offered it clients a setup of basic, standardized it-support services that are executed over remote VPN connections. All services are based on the actual need of our clients and are totally modular. With a production team of 80 engineers, committed to solving it-related matters, our service model cuts the slack in the it-support business. QuickBit manages inbound service requests and "translates" it into tech-talk for the engineers and we're maintaining it-infrastructure remotely, saving costs for our clients.

ShiftControl was founded in early 2001 to establish a new headhunting process based on a networked model for matching open positions and professionals. By re-engineering the traditional recruiting- and headhunting processes and by establishing, maintaining and developing a wide network of professionals (a.k.a. scout network) we managed to create a new, accurate way of pin-point recruiting professionals.

During the autumn of 1999 Nedecon needed an account manager to be responsible for the company’s major accounts. My role was to develop the accounts and increase revenues by identifying new business models for the client. As time went by, my role grew to include internal business development (competence coaching and process development).

As part of a three person strong team responsible for www.nokia.com my responsibility was to define online service concepts (press-, investor relations-, careers concepts) and online coverage for fairs and exhibitions. I was also, initially, responsible for the definition and start up of www.thefeature.com - a Nokia owned and managed mobile Internet portal.Also responsible for global production of newsreel service for TV news media. I wrote three (3) key note speeches for then CEO Jorma Ollila (N7110 concept launch, WLAN concept launch) and Pekka Ala-Pietilä (subcontractor relations speech).

Helsinki, Finland

Worked as a News Journalist for the the swedish TV News and Radio X3M. This job really helped me appreciate the need for keeping deadlines and keeping the message tight.