Nordic Regional Director

• Sep 2022 - Present

Through world-class artificial intelligence that unleashes creativity, 365Talents creates an employee-centered world of work, by giving your people the power to chart their own course for progress. We help people to be seen in their own words, on their own terms. We use artificial intelligence to assess skills in order to match employees with personalized in-house opportunities such as jobs, corporate training opportunities, and large scale projects. We allow you to build a unique employee experience, while increasing internal mobility, engagement, and planning the future.

Business Coach

• Aug 2018 - Present

Valmennustrio provides solutions for developing business and well-being at work to improve productivity and competitiveness of organizations. As business coach the core of my activities are people, companies and organizations in transition. My goal is to measure the needs and find creative ways to address the challenges that professionals are facing in their daily activities. Valmennustrio provides solutions for developing business and well-being at work to improve productivity and competitiveness of organizations. As business coach the core of my activities are people, companies and organizations in transition. My goal is to measure the needs and find creative ways to address the challenges that professionals are facing in their daily activities.

Producer, Chairman of the Board

• Aug 2012 - Nov 2022

Tahtiteatteri Oy is a privately owned company providing live performances for individuals and companies. Our services portfolio consists of full scale theatrical and musical performances, career coaching and work counselling and creation of new artistic products including manuscripts.Our sincere aim is to offer unique positive experiences to our customers by combining the skill of actors, dancers, musicians and singers. To bring into life products that boldly combine performing elements in a completely new manner. To coach professionals into genuine perfection. Financially successfully.Our current market is Finland with occasional performances abroad. Staffing for our projects are always built on a tailor-made basis using only full scale professionals.I'm the chairman of the board and my operative responsibility within the company is production, covering all aspects of sales and marketing.

Career Coach

• Sep 2011 - Apr 2019

AS3 is a Nordic company specialized in the area of Job Transition Management. Our mission is to support individuals and organizations to handle job related changes. We were founded 1989 and we have 500 employees and coaches in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. As a part of the global Lee Hecht Harrison network we can provide services world-wide.I´m a certified Career Coach specialized in outplacement, career coaching and transition management. During the past two years I have worked with a numerous number of managers and high skilled professionals with their personal and company transitions.

Producer,Sales Director

• Sep 2009 - Jul 2012

How I got into the business of performing arts was purely the result of my brother's initiative. Sami has been running his company, Sami Kojonen Ky, well over ten years with huge success. He has grown the company from an actor's freelancer business into a company providing a wide range of services from individual artists' performances to full scale arts productions for companies and live audiences.Together we started a new professional theatre, Kuopion Uusi Kesäteatteri, in 2010. In the following eight years we have succeeded in providing live entertainment for enthusiastic audiences of more than 60,000 people. Our theatre brand is already well-known all over Finland. As a producer in the company I built a comprehensive services offering for customers including catering, lake sea cruises, accomodation and live theatre entertainment. Extensive and skillful media coverage was one of the key drivers for a successful breakthrough on the market.The second step in our strategic plan was the setup of a new company, Tahtiteatteri Oy, which started its operation in 2012.

Manager, Sales and Marketing EMEA

• Feb 2006 - Aug 2009

For more than three years being responsible for sales and marketing of a Services business, which generated revenue above 100 M$ and covered 8 regions in EMEA with both direct and indirect operations. In this business I initiated the process of implementing a change within the organizations from being very technically oriented to becoming strong full bred sales organizations. Inherent in this development was my work to build the strategic foundation for future services development and pave the way for 2-digit growth for our business.

Manager, Distributor Network

• Oct 2003 - Jan 2006

Business Partner Manager, Europe and Asia

• Feb 1999 - Aug 2003

During 1999 a strategic tasks’ group was formed to build an IMS business strategy for Instrumentarium. Being one of the core members in this team, we built a strategic plan, which since then formed the basis for setting up Deio Corporation as an independent company and its strategic guidelines. These strategic principles are still today being applied to CIS-business within GE Healthcare.After the decision was made to separate Information Management Systems (IMS) -business from equipment business, one of the key challenges was to find and start implementing totally new models for solution providing. Key question in this scenario was to define the criteria and create a standardized process for distribution network that would ensure financially healthy business and continued growth on the selected target markets. This so called Certified Solution Provider –concept has proven its vitality during the time that I managed IMS-distributors in Europe and Asia-Pacific. The growth during this time was every year double digit, reaching at its best up to 88 % versus previous year.

Project Sales Manager

• Apr 1994 - Jan 1999

I was recruited to Instrumentarium during spring 1994 and was given the task to construct a model of transforming business from pure equipment basis into project driven business including a strategic IT-component. During the following two years together with the key professionals within Instrumentarium we set up a solid model for information management systems business. I was then given the task to prove its efficiency in practice on the extremely competitive Finnish market.When joining the Finnish distributor company Instrumed at the very end of 1996, information management systems business was suffering from HP’s increasingly strong position on the critical care side. After setting up and organizing a solutions team, during the next two years in charge of the business I was able to gain number one position and 100 % success rate in projects in Clinical IMS business on the Finnish market. For a number of years one of the fruits of this period, Critical Care System in Helsinki University Children’s Hospital, was widely used as a global reference site for information management customers.

Product Team Leader, Chief System Analyst

• Nov 1987 - Mar 1994

At the end of 1980’s I was in a key role in a self service banking project, which meant a successful breakthrough on the Finnish market for automated banking services. I had the responsibility of a project, which was providing multimedia applications to promote the use and advance of ATMs. After that for more than two years my responsibility was to manage a team of specialists responsible of leading edge remote banking services for end customers i.e. pc-based banking, which since then has become a commodity.

Commercial Attache

• Jan 1993 - Dec 1993

System Analyst, Project Manager

• May 1984 - Oct 1987