Jussi Viitasalo
Vice President, Sales and Marketing
"Jussi has extensive experience and skills in sales & IT management and operations development, in both traditional and digital sales & IT. He has led large IT units and sales organisations on the customer's side, but also worked in senior positions on suppliers' side. Jussi knows the market exceptionally well.”
Special skills
Strategy and Business development
Strategic Account Management
Sales Management and Sales Operations
Sales & Channel Development
E-Commerce
ICT Management
Telecom industry
Strengths
Leadership & Coaching: Ability to lead large teams and complex organizations
Entrepreneurship: Building business from ground up, executing plans agreed in strategy
Focus&Goal&Result Orientation: Ability to create new strategies and business models but also implement them in detail
Stimulate Diversity: Ability to lead global multi-cultural teams
Innovation&Pioneering: Appetite for new technologies and they can we used to create new strategies, offerings and services
Relevant experience
Over 20 years of experience from Sales & ICT operations management and development
Most describing positions/projects
Partner, IBM Global Business Services, Telco/Media, Energy and Finance industry
Head of Interactive Experience and Cognitive Services, IBM GBS
Global Head of B2B Sales, Nokia (later Microsoft Mobile)
Head of Sales Development, Nokia
Head of Online Sales, Nokia
Head of Customer Engagement Applications Unit, Nokia IT
Senior Manager, Accenture, several sales&channel&care programs in Comms&HighTech industry
Education
Master of Science, Computer Science, Major topic Information Technology in Production, Minor topic International Economics and Finance, Helsinki University of Technology
One year scholarship to University of Wisconsin-Madison, Doctoral studies in Industrial Engineering