Jussi Lystimaki

Current

• Member of the Board and Partner at Boardman Ltd
• VP Sales and Marketing at Idean
• Partner, Chairman at Boardman 2020

• Co-founder, Advisor at Sendandsee LLC

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Past

• Doer at Avaus Consulting
• Shareholder, Advisor to the management at Prisma Research (acquired by Idean June 2007)
• Advisor, shareholder at Mermit (acquired by Ixonos May 2007)

• Managing Director, partner at Prisma Consulting (MBO Sep 2006)
• Advisory Board Member at Tecc-Is
• Member of the Board at Wristop Technologies
• Chairman of the Board at Global Intelligence Alliance Group
• Country Manager/Group B.Dev, Co-Founder at Tera Group (listed at AIM/London, acquired by Hanover Dec 2002)
• Senior Consultant at Satama Interactive
• Shareholder, Advisor to the management at Osaketieto (acquired by Talentum 1999)
• New Media Manager at Talentum
• Sales Manager, advertising at Talentum Group
• Course Coordinator, Institution of International Business and Strategy at Helsinki University of Technology
• Junior Consultant at Helsinki Consulting Group

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Jussi Lystimaki’s Summary

Jussi is a highly networked person and has built new businesses and services in dynamic ICT market with success.

Jussi performs best in organisations having high growth, great business opportunity arising and has moving targets, uncertain but excellent future promises, strong emphasis to grow internationally and entrepreneurial team members. He has experience in developing companies from start-up to high growth phase, and selling of the companies to industry players.

Jussi’s competence areas are in marketing and sales, start-up development into corporation and organisation, company growth strategy development and business concept management. He is strong in project and program management and systematic working methods, still keeping a strong emphasis on creativity.

He was elected to Boardman in 2006. The networked knowledge-intensive partner organisation develops and shares knowledge about Shareholder value development, good corporate governanc and company value development through Boardroom work.

Jussi Lystimaki’s Experience

• Member of the Board and Partner

  Boardman Ltd

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  April 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  Boardman Ltd is the leading network of Finnish corporate governance specialists concentrating on the development of good corporate governance and board work in Finland.
  
  The fifty partners that comprise the Boardman network have extensive experience in being board members, managing business as well as in academic research. All Boardman partners act independently in developing good corporate governance practices and methods of board work as an integrated network.
  
  Boardman organises seminars and conferences in order to develop good corporate governance in Finland. Partners are also involved in academic research and participate actively in public discussion.
  
  By combining their knowledge and working closely together Boardman partners aim to improve the quality of and results achieved by the boards, develop in-depth know-how of board work and improve the assessment of boards in Finland.
  
  More info: www.boardman.fi

• VP Sales and Marketing

  Idean

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  You care a lot about what your company does next. What does the difference. Somewhere out there, there are people who have big needs - the kind of things that keep them up at night. It is all about finding out those big needs, and creating ways to satisfy and excite people.
  
  Idean is about the Next Big Things. We co-create with people winning products and services for Digital Age. We find the benefits and value. We explore and observe. We conceptualize and design. We test and validate. Its about your business and about your clients.
  
  We explore the design drivers with people and their behaviour in 37 countries, have great client companies, such as Vodafone, Nokia, KONE, F-secure, Joikusoft, Xtract, Blyk, EDSA. We are more than 60 people, approx 5 million euros net sales (2007), growing with speed.
  
  My role as a partner is sales and marketing on a global scale.
  www.idean.com

• Partner, Chairman

  Boardman 2020

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Think Tanks industry)

  May 2006 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Boardman Ltd is the leading network of Finnish corporate governance specialists concentrating on the development of good corporate governance and board work in Finland.
  
  Boardman 2020 is focusing on board work in growth companies, and is a forum for 30-40 years old business-minded people. Members share experiences and practices of their corporate stories and aim to develop skills and practices and added value through board work in growth companies.
  
  www.boardman2020.com

• Co-founder, Advisor

  Sendandsee LLC

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1999 — Present (9 years 9 months)

  I worked actively as a board member until May 2007, now working as an advisor/active shareholder.
  
  Sendandsee launched the world’s first Mobile Magazines and mobiprint - a Mobile Publishing Toolkit for professional publishers in May 2004 already. The new 2007 platform enables mobile advertising, mobile content properties creation/automatization to all handsets on the planet supporting WAP, XHTML, Symbian or Java.
  
  The company has closed solid partners in Asia, Europe and US, delivered solutions to top tier media companies (USA, India, China, Spain, Germany, Russia..). Mobiprint is used as a revenue platform in the transformation of online advertising business into mobile.
  
  The company has remarkable mobile publishing deals with companies such as ESPN and Nokia on global scale.
  
  Read more. www.sendandsee.com

• Doer

  Avaus Consulting

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  September 2006 — June 2007 (10 months)

  Around this simple credo a group of seasoned doers have created Avaus Consulting. We come from different backgrounds - management consulting, IT, corporate finance, media & entertainment and research & academia.
  
  We have started companies, transformed them, saved them from the brink of extinction, nurtured them from zero to IPO and enjoyed the ride ever since we got into this.
  
  We are based in Helsinki, but we have a global network of associates in Europe and the US. We also have a joint experience of working for long periods in the US, UK, Italy, France and Germany.
  
  see: www.avaus.fi

• Shareholder, Advisor to the management

  Prisma Research (acquired by Idean June 2007)

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Market Research industry)

  December 2006 — June 2007 (7 months)

  (Idean acquired the company on June 2007, see www.idean.com)
  
  The company is a market research company that provides insight into the telecommunications and ICT markets. The company hels its clients achieve better results by providing insight to the competitive landscape, market potential, distribution channels, and other issues vital to our client's success. The core insight area is telecom, mobile sector and related coverging industries.
  
  Jussi was a managing director of the company within Prisma Group, this role ended through a M&A transaction in August 2006. He was an advisor to the new Board of Directors and shareholder of the company until the company was sold to Idean Enterprises located in Espoo, London, Santa Clara and Shanghai.

• Advisor, shareholder

  Mermit (acquired by Ixonos May 2007)

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2000 — May 2007 (6 years 11 months)

  Already from the co-foundation of the company worked with the
  mgmt team to form a solid basis for business growth. Since, acting as a shareholder, board member and an advisor.
  
  Mermit focuses on software engineering, integration and consulting. It is a group of highly dedicated professionals who specialize in delivering custom solutions for enterprise-class business-critical environments.
  
  They won the "Best use in Government, public services or a not-for-profit organization" category at the international Mobile Messaging Awards 2005. In addition, they won the price for the best mobile technology innovation in the travel industry in the Tourism@Awards 2004 finals held in Noga Hilton Cannes on 6th of December. Mermit was chosen to Deloitte FAST 500 EMEA list in 2006.
  
  HEX listed IT-company Ixonos bought Mermit on May 2007, counting some 600 IT specialists.

• Managing Director, partner

  Prisma Consulting (MBO Sep 2006)

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  December 2002 — September 2006 (3 years 10 months)

  Prisma helps its clients to align Internet, Intranet and wireless services to support business operations, such as sales, knowledge share. Prisma is a neutral ICT Management consultant and works in the Nordic countries and Baltic area in Europe.
  
  We do business consulting and project management for FTSE 500 companies, such as corporate/group Intranets, corporate/group public web services/sites, Wireless sales support and client dialogue. Our clients include companies like Stora Enso, Outokumpu, Wärtsilä, TeliaSonera, Neste Oil, Vodafone, DNA, Nokia and Kone Corporation.
  
  We have a solid expertise in wireless tech as well. Our team has been managing projects about pWLAN, WLAN, UMA (GSM on WLAN) and mobile office solutions, also mCRM to international MVNOs to name few examples. We offer the services to initiate, manage and complete projects with success, as a neutral consulting house.
  
  Jussi exited the company succesfully on Sep 2006.
  
  more: www.prismaconsulting.fi

• Advisory Board Member

  Tecc-Is

  (Public Company; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  June 2000 — July 2005 (5 years 2 months)

  Tecc-is is a UK public company with AIM of funding and developing early-stage Israeli high technology companies and helping them gain access to UK and Europe.
  
  see www.tecc-is.com

• Member of the Board

  Wristop Technologies

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

  June 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 1 month)

  Wristop serves the well known sports, health-care and fitness brands by developing new wrist electronics and solutions, such as wrist computers and watches. They enable their customers to build complementing products to their product portfolio and enter the growing wrist electronics market with optimal approach which matches with the brand perception, user needs, offering and requirements.
  
  The team is built on world-leading senior R&D, concept building and production management people, with excellent track-record of top tier wrist-computers and outdoor electronics. Company received funding from business angel network and SITRA in 2005.
  www.wristop.fi

• Chairman of the Board

  Global Intelligence Alliance Group

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  January 2002 — June 2003 (1 year 6 months)

  My team supported the foundation of the company in 2000, starting from few talented guys and gave seed funding for it. Hands-on incubation for 3 years, resulted in heavy growth. Today, Global Intelligence Alliance Group, one of world’s largest CI companies. The 3i Group (www.3i.com) and Capman (www.capman.fi) have supported the company’s international expansion. GIA has offices in Helsinki, London, Toronto and New York, and expanding rapidly on globe.
  See more information: www.novintel.com

• Country Manager/Group B.Dev, Co-Founder

  Tera Group (listed at AIM/London, acquired by Hanover Dec 2002)

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  March 2000 — December 2002 (2 years 10 months)

  Country Manager for Finnish and German operations. Business development responsibility of Tera Incubation Network development, and portfolio development.
  
  Hands-on investment management, start-up planning and management, consulting, financing consultation, management consultation, sales and marketing consultation, internationalisation consulting and contact network creation, adviser in the Israeli tech-start-ups etc.
  
  We developed and launched IT-professional career-communities based on person-to-person referrals, such as shiftctrl.com
  
  Co-founder of Finnish origin investment company Tera Group.
  Reverse merger with London StockExchange AIM-listed Ogygen Holdings Plc in 2001, became Tera Group Plc, one of the hot listed ICT incubators in the UK. Manchester based operations, offices in London, Machester, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Tel Aviv. Acquired by Hanover Dec 2002
  
  Tera was on of the seed investors in companies like www.globalintelligence.com, www.mforma.com, www.tecc-is.com.

• Senior Consultant

  Satama Interactive

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Online Media industry)

  September 1997 — March 2000 (2 years 7 months)

  The usual new media consulting for large international companies, such as Nokia and Sonera (TeliaSonera)
  
  From the establishment of the company till IPO to HEX in 2000.
  Senior consulting included online concept creation, business case development, project management, management consulting among other new media related new-world-thinking.
  
  Competence areas within online communities, online media, online marketing and sales and communication and team building.

• Shareholder, Advisor to the management

  Osaketieto (acquired by Talentum 1999)

  (Financial Services industry)

  September 1997 — May 1999 (1 year 9 months)

  Osaketieto is a stock and market analysis company, providing insights to ICT companies and markets around Helsinki Stock Exchange and peer groups. Osaketieto customers enjoy thse insights through daily e-mail letters and analysis and recommendations shared on the Osaketieto website.
  The company became the leading daily stock analysis company in Finland within 18 months from the start.
  
  The company was sold to WOW-company, part of Talentum’s online properties in 1999, and became a foothold for services offered to Finnish private and institutional investors.

• New Media Manager

  Talentum

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Online Media industry)

  January 1996 — September 1997 (1 year 9 months)

  X-generation stuff.
  
  Development of new publishing concepts for a large BtoB publishing house and development of operations and business model.
  
  Online Community duuni.net was planned, developed and launched successfully to Finnish new media/b-to-b community.
  Online BtoB recruitment service uratie.net planned, developed and launched successfully.
  
  Visiting project manager for PCWorld Online, in San Francisco in 1997, for idg.net, pcworldonline services and some other hot-internet-services launched by IDG in late 1997.
  
  Later this new media unit became a key part of Satama Interactive, as the majority of Satama was owned by Talentum Group.

• Sales Manager, advertising

  Talentum Group

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

  September 1995 — January 1996 (5 months)

  New customer ad sales for BtoB magazines.

• Course Coordinator, Institution of International Business and Strategy

  Helsinki University of Technology

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 1994 — September 1995 (1 year 1 month)

  Course Coordinator for International M.Sc and higher-degree students for Professional Sales courses.

• Junior Consultant

  Helsinki Consulting Group

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  April 1995 — August 1995 (5 months)

  Development of the key consultant roster from paper to an IT system for the company to source project resources and find key skills and capable consultants globally.
  
  The current HCG is restructuring the company to become a Finnish Consulting Group, FCG, employing more than 500 consultants.

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