Kristo Reinsalu

Current

Consultant at Invent Baltics

Past

Executive Officer at Ministry of Economic Affairs Communications
Development Adviser at Ministry of Social Affairs
Chief Specialist at Ministry of Finance

Analyst at Eesti Ühispank (SEB Eesti Ühispank)

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Education

Tartu Ülikool
Tartu Ülikool

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Industry

Management Consulting

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Kristo Reinsalu’s Summary

I am a good strategist but at the same time I consider myself hard-working and passionately dedicated to my tasks. Daily I usually follow the principle that "devil is always in details". Regardless of the fact that I like to deal with many questions at the same time, problems will never pile up for me since I can always keep an eye on the big picture. This was an invaluable asset what I acquired while I was working in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications as well as in the Ministry of Finance.

During last 5 years I have had really great honour to be one of the "pioneers" in Estonian Space Community to contribute to accession process to European Space Agency (ESA). It is still ongoing mission which has already offered for me valuable experiences in terms of managing nationwide space projects. Undoubtedly "Estonian Race for Space" will open us unprecedented and numerous (business) opportunities in coming years! Everybody, who is interested needs to stay tuned and eyes opened! Sky is not the limit anymore. Definitely it has`nt been and won`t be limit for me either!

Kristo Reinsalu’s Specialties:

Project management, business communication, networking, Estonian space activities and few more

Kristo Reinsalu’s Experience

Consultant

Invent Baltics

(Management Consulting industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

• Lead successfully a process of forming consortia for participation in the public tender “Introduction of the downstream applications and opportunities of space technology ...” (currently leading this project).
• Advised a process to found Renewable Energy Technologies Competence Centre and Space Technologies Competence Centre (E-Space).
• Lead public tender procured by Enterprise Estonia “Space related awareness for entrepreneurial and R&D activities”.
• Lead a process of forming consortia and wrote successful European 7th Framework project „Utilizing the existing and emerging potential of Nordic-Baltic dimension in satellite remote sensing and related fields“ (acronym: NordicBaltSat) (project is being financed by European Commission and will start 01.2010).
Executive Officer

Ministry of Economic Affairs Communications

(Government Administration industry)

June 2005 — March 2008 (2 years 10 months)

• Coordination of cooperation activities between Estonia and European Space Agency (ESA) since beginning with small group of dedicated "pioneers".
• Giving new breath to Estonian Genome Project (EGP). EGP is now a research venture of the University of Tartu. It was founded by the Government of the Republic of Estonia in 2001 and subsequently reorganized as a research institution affiliated to the University of Tartu. I was coordinating reorganization process of EGP.
• Management of preliminary activities before building up nationwide Research & Development (R&D) programmes in the fields of energy technologies, biotechnology and information and telecommunication technologies.
• Industrial property management - brought together all actors and stakeholder in the field and drafted memorandum of future needs.
• Coordination of the process to reach to the cooperation agreement between U.S. and Estonia to establish a framework for cooperation in the field of oil shale research and utilization.
Development Adviser

Ministry of Social Affairs

(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

September 2004 — May 2005 (9 months)

• I was responsible for building up new work-planning system for whole ministry.
• Leader of the process of preparing new strategy for Ministry and its administrative field (using Balanced Scorecard method)
Chief Specialist

Ministry of Finance

(Government Administration industry)

June 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 4 months)

• Major success where I was quite heavily involved was the merger of the Taxation and Customs Boards of Estonia which was an extremely complex and significant milestone for the administration
• I also worked in State Budget development unit and was responsible budgetary process development matters
• Belonged to team of organizational development: participated in charting of functions and processes of ministry as well as helped to prepare strategy for whole ministry
Analyst

Eesti Ühispank (SEB Eesti Ühispank)

(Banking industry)

June 1999 — March 2003 (3 years 10 months)

• Worked in two different positions as marketing analyst in PR & Marketing division and as a finance controller in Capital Markets division
• I was responsible of client segmentation, did different analyses with the aim to organize selling campaigns which included direct offerings to target clients from bank`s products portfolio
• I was project manager of putting together yearbook for whole SEB Eesti Ühispank and its group in two consecutive years

Kristo Reinsalu’s Education

Tartu Ülikool

Bachelor , majored in Corporate Finance & Accounting , 1996 — 2000
Tartu Ülikool

Master , Entrepreneurship and Technology Management , 2004

Activities and Societies:

Master thesis on the topic „Location-based services companies in Estonia and their development perspectives: cluster approach”, 2004 - ...

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Kristo Reinsalu’s Interests:

New technologies and their applications Track&Field, training regularly for marathon running

Kristo Reinsalu’s Groups:

• Member of Estonian Space Policy Working Group 2006 – ...
• Member of the managing board of Chamber of Technology and Entrepreneurship Development (TED) 2005 -
• Member of GO-KODA (environment-related projects etc) under Junior Chamber International (JCI) 2007 -
• Member of the Running Club - Sportkeskus.ee 2006 -