With my all-round Asian business management experience (past 15 years fully dedicated to Asian business) wanting to offer my skills and experience for companies doing business between Asia and Western countries and build a business bridge that no one else can achieve. Alternatively, implement key elements of the Asian high quality and customer servicing business culture in to a Western company to help to build them truly customer-oriented.
Establish or develop new business or revise existing business operation.
Applying my proven personnel leadership skills to motivate and encourage team-members to gain top performance, initiativeness and job-satisfaction.

In charge of the developed Asia Pacific market for wireless telecom testing equipment. Rebuilt the business, organization and representative relations. Multiplied sales volume.

Languages
Finnish: native
English: fluent
Swedish: business level after some refreshing
German: business level after some refreshing
Japanese: daily conversation; read hiragana and katakana and some kanji
Korean: basics; read and write Hangul

Computer skills
MS Word
MS Excel (incl. formulas)
MS Powerpoint (incl. animation)
MS Outlook
MS Visio
MS Project
MindManager
several taylor-made ERP and accounting SWs
SharePoint
StarTeam

Finland Chamber of Commerce in Japan (FCCJ): Auditor FY01, Vice-President FY02-03, President FY04-08 (five consecutive terms)
European Business Community (EBC): member of Executive Council / Board of Governors FY04-08 (five consecutive terms)

About me:
A person with the drive for continuous improvement, listening to the customer, personnel management, multi-drive mind, sense of humor with thirteen years' of on-site multi-industry experience of Asian business culture. All-round experience especially in the Asian region from sales support for representatives and distributors to opening and managing offices both - and pretty much anything in between...

Proud of:
Moved to Asia based on the Japanese daughter company's request due to their good experience of my support to them.
Built several representative relations to personal and mutually trustful levels.
Overseen and/or managed a remarkable business increase in every position and company.
Recognized twice by an external employee satisfaction study as the leader of the Corporation's globally most job-satisfied unit.
Elected by the other BoG members to be the President of the Finnish Chamber of Commerce in Japan (FCCJ) for five consecutive terms.