Bio

Since 2017 I am fully dedicated to develop a proptech company R8 Technologies (R8tech) in my business life. Our AI-based R8 Jenny supports Real Estate in Energy Efficiency (also incl CO2 reduction), Indoor Comfort and Building’s Technical Condition. In 2022 we started to offer a Demand Response (balancing electricity grid and earning revenue from that) also.
2020 was my return to stages, speaking at different (virtual) conferences and webinars like RE Futureproof (streamed from Amsterdam), WDBE (Helsinki), DMREx (Berlin), Infoshare (Gdansk), New Energy Challengers (Vilnius), "5 start-ups to boost your retail building" (Tallinn), Davos Energy Week (Davos, 2021) etc. Business life till 2017 include over 20 years of professional management experience in various roles linked to energy sector, project management and international SME commerce and trade. I am an author of a book about export strategies and series of articles, given lectures in co-operation with the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Previously founded a bathroom equipment wholesale company (LaSpa), which had exit to a Chinese holding company. About my private life - there is a saying that a man has to build a house, plant a tree and write a book during his life. This was done a long time ago and thus I have time for some other stuff:) I have composed some music 2008-2010 (from a 3-voice polyphonic fugue to different songs), written several articles the 2nd half of 1990's and again from 2020's; published some books. In the beginning of 90's I was a member of a male choir winning different prizes in European choir festivals (Stuttgart, Budapest, Riva del Garda, Wiesbaden etc). I was playing football in Estonian amateur leagues from 1998 to 2018. And the most important - I am a happy husband and father, son and brother, a true friend.