Bio

Went to school, studied, founded own companies and worked for corporates in Finland and Germany. Managed Nokia's 100+mEUR smartphone business with Vodafone, founded three startups, now helping startups and SMEs to create business in Germany and Finland. Open for board work. Enthusiastic about the giant potential of digitalization in every single industry there is. Believes in the long-term impact of CSR. I'm a customer-centric lateral thinker with an entrepreneurial mindset. Half German, half Finnish, I'm at home in both countries - and in a world of digital, international business. Currently I work at the German-Finnish chamber of commerce. I was recruited to help renew the organization in competences, activities, structure and culture. Before that, I spent 11 years at Microsoft Mobile & Nokia. In my last roles, I have been responsible for the Lumia business with Vodafone, and headed the inbound marketing for mobile devices at Microsoft. Over those 11 years, I've worked in a variety of fields at Microsoft and Nokia both in the head office and in the local German office. Roles vary from large customer-Sales with business responsibility to trend research, and from Product- and Consumer Marketing to Operations. Before that, my previous professional experience includes being founder and CEO of a strategic marketing consultancy (developing market entry strategies for Finnish clients into the German market, deploying and developing consumer segmentation for a multinational) and two years as managing partner and co-founder of an event agency specialized in recruitment events. Outside of work (and why not at work, as well?) I'm enthusiastic about classical music, artificiaI intelligence, design, sailing, cooking and wines. Experience in: General Management, Strategy, Public speaking, Sales, Marketing, Market Research, Business Development, Consumer Insights, Digital Marketing. Views are my own.