Head of the Passenger Services operation and member of the Management Board. Finnlines is a leading shipping operator of ro-ro and passenger services in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea.
Listed in the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki, Finnlines is a part of the Grimaldi Group, one of the world's largest operators of ro-ro vessels and the largest operator of Motorway of the Sea in Europe for both passengers and freight. Finnlines is currently operating 13 Ropax-ferries on several passenger routes between six countries: Finland - Germany, Finland - Poland, Germany - Poland, Finland - Sweden, Sweden - Germany, Russia - Germany, Russia - Latvia, Germany - Latvia. The top modern Finnlines Star-class 550 passenger Ropax-ferrys operate daily Helsinki - Travemünde (only 28 hours travel time) and vice versa and three weekly sailings Helsinki - Gdynia - Rostock and v.v. Naantali - Kapellskär is a fast and comfortable way to travel from Finland to Sweden. Travel time only 8 hours, three daily sailings in each direction. Malmö - Travemünde is the fast and efficient sea link between Scandinavia and Central Europe. Travel time 9 hours, three daily sailings in both directions. The TransRussia Express operates the route Lübeck - Sassnitz - Ventspils - St. Petersburg.

·Valuable businesslearnings for life: ·Managing controllable massive expansion, driving organic growth and conquer market shares with a very lean organisation and disciplined actions
·5 new cruiseferries built and set in traffic during this era. New routes and new concepts introduced
·Annual passengers grew from 3,7 M in 1988 to 5,5 M in 1991

·Sales and marketing of beverages on the Duty Free- and Travel Retail market (Northern Baltic Sea) and on nearby export-markets (Baltic states and Russia, Sweden) and Åland islands
·Within corporate guidelines responsible of marketing, brand management, sales structures, distributor- and key account management in the defined areas
·P&L accountability

·Entrepreneurial business in my own family company
·Agent for numerous international and domestic beverage brands, focusing in Duty Free and Travel Retail
·Employing and managing a team of sales promoters, offering sales promotional services for points of sale (merchandising, tasting, hosting)
·Sales and Imports of promotional items and POS material

Head of Red Bull's subsidiary in Finland - reporting to the HQ in Austria. Job description in brief:
* Proactively leading the strategical and tactical business planning and budgeting process to meet the corporate expectations and standards.
* Develop and implement measuring tools to evaluate achieved results. * Overseeing Sales & Marketing, Revenue Management, Operations (Distribution Partner management), Human Resources, Accounting, and IT. * Identify, hire, train, motivate excellent individuals fit for the job. * Provide the team with guidance and resources required to accomplish established objectives. * Overseeing the daily operations and manage development of people.

Copterline operated daily route traffic between Helsinki and Tallinn city centres, 12 departures in each direction daily. The route was operated with two brand new Agusta Westland AW139 helicopters, capacity 12 passengers. The company engaged totally 80 full time people.
The route was closed down 19th Dec 2008. In addition the company provided HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service) services from several bases in Finland.