Manning (almost) all stations and pulling several strings at Vendep (as usual in a small team of four). Main task of course involves finding great B2B SaaS entrepreneurs in need of fuel (0,5-1Me) for scaling their company internationally.

Trustmary set on a product-led growth transformation journey in 2022. I joined in an interim 80% operative role that touched on all the areas from potential customer awareness to upsales to existing customers. 6 months full of experimentation, learnings and implementation with a tremendous team.

Adding value to foreign (non-Finnish) venture capital funds and corporates through a globally unique service concept of HBH Investor Services. - sourcing and analysing Finnish growth companies, - increasing VCs' visibility in the market, - providing links to LPs and the Finnish growth company ecosystem (local VCs and portfolio holders)Also coaching growth companies in fund raising for late seed + A-round. Results so far: helped companies in raising 62Me in 2016 and 28Me in 2015.Eg. assisted Noona Healthcare in acquiring investors to their 1,5Me funding round and Bonusway to their 6,9Me round.

Accelerating Russian startups through Helsinki. Ran and managed the accelerator program for 3 sets of companies, while negotiating and building deal flow with companies from the former CIS countries.

Bringing Russian strategic investments into the Greater Helsinki region and consulting Russian SMEs in expansion into the EU.- Matchmaking Russian companies (ICT, life sciences and cleantech industries) with Finnish partners for R&D, sales and marketing and business development- Conducting searches for M&A target companies- Assisting in acquiring product certification- Support in locating sites for greenfield investmentsDeveloping a pipeline for foreign young innovative companies to establish international operations in the Helsinki region and find business developers from the Finnish talent pool.

Researching and developing the consumer care network.

License and payment management software for the mobile environment. Managed international clients and projects and advised the VP of sales in developing business models for the company.

Contacting Russian company executives to set up meetings and seminars.