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Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Helsinki Area, Finland

Project management within valuations, sell side and buy side corporate transactions, mergers and growth strategies.Reference projects:- Sell side analyst: Sale of e-invoice and e-transaction platform provider Apix Messaging to pan-Nordic financial administration and financial administration software company Accountor (announced 1.4.2021)- Sell side analyst: Sale of enterprise talent management platform provider eTaika to Norway-based international enterprise software provider Visma (Announced 1.5.2021)- Sell side analyst: Sale of wood-fired hot tub market leader Kirami to global sauna and spa market leader Harvia (Announced 28.5.2021) for an announced total deal value of 11M€

Helsinki Area, Finland

Nordic Growth serves corporate management and owners by building and realizing full value of businesses. The company's customers are corporate management, investors, private equity and entrepreneurs. It supports its customers in boosting their competitive advantage and leveraging strategic potential through advisory and transactions.Reference projects:- Sell side analyst: Sale of aluminum machining company Honpumet to aluminum end product producer Tikli- Sell side analyst: Sale of working machine cabin manufacturer to working machine manufacturer- Buy side analyst: Assisted infrastructure company Elvera in financial due diligence and valuation of target, a power line building and maintenance company Ravera- MBO analyst: Assisted Sheet metal company active management in buying the shares of retiring owner

Helsinki Area, Finland

CRE8 Oy is a communications company specializing in end-to-end marketing campaign management. We handle all campaign tasks from planning to execution and measurement. My main focus in the company has been customer acquisition, planning and management of projects.Achievements: - Brand relaunch for a restaurant chain consisting of 5 restaurants. This project created individual brand images for each restaurant while simultaneously tying them to be a part of the group.- Planning and execution of successful political campaigns e.g. for MP's Ben Zyskowicz and Jukka Kopra and MEP Petri Sarvamaa, which have led to election success. I have done around a dozen campaigns for elections ranging from parliamentary elections to party leadership elections. This has taught me a holistic grasp of marketing campaigns and effective targeted and general communications.Chairman of the Board since June 2018

Lecturing Finance and accounting, economics and marketing to business university applicants and business college applicants to help them get admitted at the top university coaching company in Finland. I have lectured around the country in for example Lahti, Oulu and Helsinki with groups ranging from 20 to 400 people.Achievements:- Great feedback from course participants (4,1 - 4,65 out of 5 average score). Lecturing at Valmennuskeskus has taught me how to really simplify difficult topics to make them easier to digest.- Public speaking and presentation giving experience. My courses generally take 4 hours at a time and it has taught a great deal about managing an audience and pacing a lecture or public speaking situation.

Helsinki Area, Finland

foilChat is an end-to-end encrypted communication platform for businesses that take their information security seriously. It is a Software-as-a-Service business that mainly targets financial institutions, law, healthcare and defence industries.I lead the business development side of the company as well as participate in the product development focusing on customer needs and customer experience.Achievements:- Raising 1M€ of external funding- Creating Go-to-market strategy, brand strategy, marketing strategy, business plan etc.- Leading the sales and marketing as well as leading a 10 person organisation in collaboration with the CEO

Helsinki, Finland

I worked as a Strategy Analyst for the CFO & Enterprise value branch within Accenture Strategy. Main focus areas of mine included digital strategy and measuring and training financial competencies. I have mainly worked in the Financial Services and Resources sectors.Achievements:- Developed the business case for a large digitalization opportunity assessment for a major playerin the Nordic finance sector. This taught me about the challenges digitalization is creating for the financial industry. It also taught me how to effectively summarize and present facts and estimates gathered from widely differing sources.- Documented business controller competence expectations in a large development program for the business controlling capability of a forest industry company. This project gave me a clear overview of the skills and capabilities needed for a controller in a forest company or any large organization for that matter.- Was responsible for the client internal communications support during a major transformation program for a global player in the steel industry. This project taught me valuable knowledge on change management, internal communications within a multinational company with multiple languages and a wide variety of topics relating to efficiency improvements in internal processes.- Coauthored a study on digital disruption in Finland based on a study performed for large cap C-suite personnel. I gained a great overview of the challenges faced by large incumbent companies in Finland and the Nordics as well as on the most disrupting technologies and startups developing them.- Coauthored an extensive study on the digitalization of wealth management which focused on the key features and services that customers want from their bank regarding wealth management. A qualitative study encompassing the Nordics was performed targeting high net worth individuals. This deep dive into wealth management built a good understanding on the future of that space.

Helsinki, Finland

I consulted investors in selecting the right non-listed companies for their investment portfolios. My areas of responsibility included analyzing the quality and growth opportunities of startups and non-listed SME loan opportunities on a P2P lending platform. I consulted private investors, companies and foundations on optimal investment instruments according to their investor profiles and investment appetites.Achievements:- Selling new and innovative financial products. Taught me the sales process of how to earn the trust of customers and to persuade them to let you help them reach their needs.

Finland

I lead an organization of 17 people in cooperation with the president. I was the steward treasurer of the organization with an annual budget of ca. 1Meur. and was responsible for domestic policy and political interest groups and financial policy recommendations. One of the key accomplishments on my term was preparing and campaigning for an initiative in cooperation with finnish business advocacy organizations to abolish the corporate tax. This ultimately lead to the lowering of the corporate tax rate by 4,5 percentage points.

Helsinki, Finland

I worked as the personal assistant to a longstanding member of the Finnish parliament Kimmo Sasi. Sasi was the chairman of the finance committee and president of the Nordic Council. My key responsibilities included research and reports on current topics relating to financial issues in Finland and Europe e.g sovereign debt crisis in Europe and finnish state finances. I also prepared speeches and background memos mainly on financial and competitiveness issues and topics related to the integration of nordic markets.Achievements: - Following Finnish state finances and public discussion daily as well as the sovereign debt crisis. Writing memos and supporting the taking part in these discussions and having speeches about these subjects. I learned e.g. about the financial architecture, with its pros and cons, of the euro.- Setting up meetings, seminars and minutes for Nordic meetings. I learned intricacies of the differences in conducting business in different countries.- The role required a punctual and systematic way of working. I worked on making the routine processes more efficient by introducing a number of digital tools and new ways of working.

Msc In Economics And Business Administration, Finance, General

Activities and Societies: Hanken Entrepreneurship Society, HankinvestMasters thesis title: Long term performance of IPOs issued during.

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance, General