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Christian Aspegren has always been involved with creation, design, development, implementation and research of disruptive innovations. 

Christian has many unique stories of how to take leadership and manage change with disruptive concepts. He has designed successful leadership concepts for many large organizations and for his own companies. He has made three exits as entrepreneur and co-entrepreneur. 

His most recent involvement is NAAVA where he has been Advisor to the Founders from inception to internationalization, COB and co-entrepreneur. 

Many Ge Partners know his Amazing Achievements, having been part of them. Christian started Ge with Marko Seppä & Co. after they had performed several Live Case experiments via Global Venture Lab, their rewarded platform for university-based business creation. 

Mika is passionate about customer value, personal growth and organizational growth. He is driven by execution of growth through transformation, performance improvement and customer experience (CX).

Mika is both an entrepreneur and someone with an entrepreneurial mindset. He was born to a 2^ndgeneration family business and started his first business at the age of 10. Having thereafter established several companies and served as head of business unit and managing director, Mika has specialized in the roles of a Coach, Facilitator and Master Trainer. 

Mika´s experience around customer value driven growth and change comprises over 20 years, 100 000+ learners representing over 80 nationalities. Mika is a true believer in strategic capabilities and a leader in leadership development.

Leni enjoys working with high competence teams dedicated to make a change in the world by creating growth ventures for problems worth solving.

At the moment Leni runs Nordic Medicine and Wellness Oy that helps to promote medicine competence in health care organizations and thus save lives of of medicine users around the world. She is also co-founder Synergy Partners Finland and works there as a coach for pharmacies.
Previously Leni has worked as an assistant professor at Global Venture Lab.

As a leading graphic facilitator, Raquel provides lo-fi/hi-fi arts-based graphic facilitation.

She works in co-operation with businesses and organizations to capture ideas ranging from meaningful conversations to concrete actions maps. 

Raquel’s strength is in her ability to quickly capture information, see patterns, make meaningful connections, support collaboration and communicate a holistic picture.

She has extensive experience in visually recording talks and facilitating strategic visioning processes, conceptualisation and ideation.

Raquel is insatiably curious, a great listener, quick & easy to work with. She engages in action research on using participatory arts for intercultural learning.

She has co-authored 12 textbooks and her specialisation as an educational writer is enactive learning.

Raquel’s passion is helping groups engage in dialogue, furthering understanding and spreading joy.

Andi brings an eclectic range of experience to our network, he has created three start up companies, directed a large family health company and worked as an operations and sales leader in a professional services firm.

During his time as a coach, facilitator and consultant he has helped companies from diverse sectors raise performance, pivot their strategy and create new alliances.

Andi is globally the only person with the “Professional Certified Coach” and “Certified Professional Facilitator” designations.

Andi works part time for two business schools: OU Business School where he is an associate lecture in Marketing & Finance and the Berlin School of Creative Leadership as a member of the executive education faculty focused on leadership and visual consulting.

He holds a Diploma in Management, MBA, MSc Systems Thinking in Practice and Ma in Online & Distance Education. He is currently studying a BSc in Design & Innovation.

Mika Ahlfors, M.Sc. (econ), is a business development professional who has over twenty years of experience from working with leading ICT service and solution providers including latest digitalization offerings.

Mika has solid understanding of what it takes to develop customer experience with right solutions for customer relationship management, sales and business development based on business targets and utilizing recent data management and analytical solutions starting from the importance of right data.

Mika has extensive experience especially from financial services, high-tech and manufacturing industries and has received excellent feedback when it comes to energizing and coaching teams with understanding of team dynamics in different organizations. Another strength Mika has is to understand complex issues and simplifying them in the proper form depending on the target group focusing on business impact helping decision making.

Entrepreneur in AT Group and Founder of Google Developer group Mekong

With 10+ years’ experience in VN market and Master degree in Marketing, a can do attitude and a strategic thinking mindset; she doesn’t merely help companies to build a plan, but also to implement the plan that help strategically transform those companies to a greater scale.

Beside networking and matching for companies on a global scale, she is an owner CEO to help client in implementing integrated Tech-enable Business model.

Personally, she believes that Listening and respecting mutual interest can initiate a long-lasting partnership.

Dr. Ohe has vast experience as a consultant for companies competing in the high-tech industries of the United States, Europe and Japan.  He founded T. Ohe & Associates, Inc. in 1976 to assist companies in building better businesses in Japan.

Dr. Ohe is the chairman of The Association of ASEAN Japan Entrepreneurship Education. He currently sits on the boards of Cognex Japan K.K., and Consulting Oasis K.K., a Tokyo-based consulting firm specializing in innovation management, to large companies including Panasonic, NTT, Olympus, Seiko Epson, Shiseido. Daiwa House and Ajinomoto.

Dr. Ohe taught at Waseda University’s MBA program and also was Director of Waseda’s Incubation Center. Currently he is a specially invited professor at International University of Japan and also is an advisor to Waseda University, Research Promotion Division.

Dr. Ohe has a Ph.D. in Experimental Physics from the University of Maryland and an M.B.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

After having worked in leading MNCs for over 12 years, Sujay started iKure with the vision to provide quality healthcare which is affordable and accessible, up to the last mile using technology intervention. Within just 8 years of its journey iKure is catering to 7.5 million underserved people & treated 850k patients, across six states in India.

Sujay Santra is changing the current healthcare paradigm of doctors merely treating illnesses, to one where doctors, local NGOs, local businesses and academia work together to identify endemic health issues in communities and design holistic disease prevention solutions, including sanitation, hygiene and nutritional components, that end the disease from its root cause.

Using the evidence based evaluation metrics of improved health parameters of the communities through this model, Sujay is lobbying to change national health policies to make holistic healthcare solutions that treat the root cause of diseases, rather than just treat individual illnesses by medicine or surgery, the accepted paradigm of healthcare in India.

With a strong technology & business skills backed with his never-say-die spirit, Sujay has led iKure to many milestones.Today iKure is recognised as one of the very few successful sustainable primary healthcare model in the world.In recognition to his outstanding efforts in the field of social innovation, he was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in 2016 & received the appreciation from President of India.

Lam The had a MBA degree and had an experience more than 15 years to export Vietnam fruits to EU and USA market from 2003 under GlobalGap standard .

He is an expert in food supply chain management in Vietnam. He is also a Manager of Project Division at Association of Food Transparency in Vietnam. He has a group of 23 companies working in Agricultural sector with different positions from farm to table. He has a dream to build up a great team that they can supply Vietnam good foodstuffs to kitchens in the  world.

Theo creates and facilitates learning journeys for managers and their teams to improve their performance and reach their potential in below areas:

• Project Management
• Personal and Team Leadership skills
• Personal and collective Accountability
• Conflict Management
• Influencing Strategies
• Collective Purpose
• Strategic Thinking

Theo facilitates and coaches in 4 languages; French, English, German and Dutch

Help managers and individuals to perform together in their organisation; to be the preferred partner for improvement and growth of individuals and organisations

Personal Motto: Advance Together

Combination of Oksana’s established project management skills, deal experience, intuition and ability to communicate and motivate people at all levels brings projects to completion and success

-Experienced senior investment banker with over 20 years of proven transaction execution and client coverage track record

-Advised global top tier clients, mainly in TMT sector, for a total deal size of c.285bn in equity/debt raising and M&A, among them transactions being the first in the market such as IPOs in Russia’s telecoms, rights issue of France Telecom, financing in the cable and energy sectors

-Recent experience includes building a successful charity organization from a startup stage

-Recognised skills in improving corporate governance/business processes and managing the transition during M&A

-Passionate about establishing and deploying corporate social responsibility frameworks and policies

-Graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge (UK) and Vilnius University (Lithuania)

“Creating a firestorm of fresh thinking and building a structural framework for higher levels of performance.”

Jaco Jansen is entrepreneur, interim manager, facilitator, trainer, business coach, digital pioneer, husband, father and sailing instructor who inspires and empowers you to create sustainable (new) business that your customers will love, igniting real results for your business.

 Experience

Automotive | IT | Education | Healthcare | NGO

Sweet spot: small and medium enterprises

Education

• MBA Sales & Marketing
• Accountability Master
• NLP practitioner
• System Thinking (Peter Senge)

Services:

• Business Transformation
• Organizational Effectiveness
• High Performance Culture

Organizations, teams and leaders who really must change their execution behavior patterns to achieve their desired outcome, know me as a trusted advisor, a confrontating coach and energizing trainer.

Very result oriented with the human touch always uncomfortable but safe.   I  help to change habits fast, to coop with non negotiable change, and I help individuals and teams to learn what they need to know, to do and to want,  to achieve results.  Learning how to learn fast is my expertise and passion.   

My experience is with non profit and for profit organizations, with experienced and with young people. Everyone who needs to learn and change, and is hold back by fear, limited beliefs or old habits, I love to help. 

Oh… and energy follows focus. So to have fun together, especially when the going gets though, is part of the game. 

Jari is a serial software entrepreneur and Founder of TWID. Jari has 20 years of experience in several international B2B software companies. He has held C-level positions in companies like QPR Software, Finantix and Trackway (Stora Enso company).

He has gathered essential know-how in the management of growth companies, raising funding and exits. He is a M.Sc. of Business and Economy.