TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE
- 20+ years in technical and leadership roles for leading consulting companies, software vendors, as well as, for striving high growth tech companies and VC’s.
- An experienced technology talent with successful track record delivering technical and functional projects directly to companies such as Nokia, Accenture Management Consulting, LogicaCMG, TBWA, KPN Telecoms, Papyrus Software, Heineken International, ING Investment Management, ABN AMRO Global Markets, BNP Paribas Fortis, Nets, LibertyGlobal, Areva, Nissan and TNS.
- Significant expertise in Digital, Mobile, Fintech, Insurtech industries. A strong delivery minded individual. Invited speaker at the leading technology and mobile conferences.
- Strong history of developing new markets for software in emerging and developed Asian ecosystems. Managed successfully new business growth of multi-million dollar business in highly competitive Asian – in established players and new entrants.
- Connected through wide network of key contacts in mobile, fintech, insurtech, telecom and technology industry.
- Excellent analytical, technical and management skillset, a bright social person with a clear understanding of wider business and strategic implications of a technology.
ABOUT
Ville Kulmala
Director – Mobile Spark
Core experience is enterprise technology, mobile technology, product
localization for APAC markets, go-to market sales, scalability, omni-channel communication management, content and data management and data contracts.
FEATURED EXPERIENCE
Head of APAC (Business Development, Partnerships, Account Management, Marketing, Product Development)
Singapore
Papyrus Software is a global leader in enterprise omni-channel communication and intelligent AI process automation (*Global leader – Forrester, Gartner and IDC). The Papyrus platform help large banks (UOB, OCBC, UBS, Citi), insurance companies (Zurich, Aviva, Allianz, Achmea, AXA) and leading telcos (SingTel, Maxis, AIS, TAT, Deutsche Telekom). Responsible for APAC wide business development, partnership management, marketing strategy and product route-to-market development, pre-sales solutioning and account management in target markets. Managed and delivered next gen scalable communication platform for regional high growth APAC virtual banks.
Data Scientist Consultant (SAS DATA ANALYTICS)
Helsinki
Worked as a Consultant for Nokia during the period when company was literally taking over the world with mobile phones. Delivered number of WAP (Wireless Access Protocol) / SAS Business Intelligence / Big Data projects and innovations to Nokia. Developed one of the first web mobile applications in Europe using Internet-enabled prototype Nokia mobile phones (the “Matrix” phone), a client-server web 1.0 solution. Reference story for SAS and Nokia. Certified SAS Consultant. Received the New Technology Innovation Award of the year.
Senior Management Consultant
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Executed senior technology and business management roles as a part of Accenture Consulting which was the global management consulting Capital Markets practice operating in more than 120 countries. Managed complex finance related system integration and migration projects and business analysis. Worked together with clients C-level contacts while delivering strategic change in client organisations. Strong delivery record from clients such as, Areva – Paris – Leading global (nuclear) energy conglomerate, ING Investment Management – The Netherlands – Global investment bank, Fortis – Brussels – Global bank, Heineken International – Amsterdam – One of the largest brewers in the world, BCI – Chile – The largest bank in Chile, Royal Bank of Scotland – London City – The largest bank in the world back at the time.
Chairman – Mobile Monday Thailand
Chairman for a leading mobile industry platform in Southeast Asia, witnessed an era when the Internet took over mobile and Thailand became top market in Southeast Asia for digital with the most engaged users. Built up audience of thousands of regional members from large enterprises, startups, media, visionaries, universities, agencies, telecom operators, Internet companies, mobile players, developers, designers and highly influential individuals among others. Platform foster neutral cooperation through live prestigious large scale networking events held in luxury hotels. Past speakers/sponsors include: Samsung, Amazon, Google, Huawei, IBM, Twilio, SkyScanner, LivingSocial, Vserv, Inmobi, Nokia, BlackBerry, Admob, Buzzcity and more. Bi-lingual in Thai and English.
Director – Scalability and Partnerships
Shanghai
Advocacy is a word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing agency based in Shanghai, with offices in Southeast Asia and India. Company is the most awarded word-of-mouth agency in the world. Responsible for managing and delivering digital & mobile marketing brand campaigns. Working across client projects in China, Southeast Asia and EU to improve scalability of the product and the business model.
Managing Director
Amsterdam, Hong Kong
Responsible for key day-to-day operations of the business. Delivery of a full-scale web and mobile word–of–mouth marketing platform product from idea generation to design, development, design, marketing, execution, and sales of the product to leading global brands. Led a global team of ten experienced resources located in three continents (vendors located in EU, US, and Asia).
Senior Business Consultant (SAP ERP)
Amsterdam
Heineken is the number one brewer in Europe and number three (by volume) worldwide. Part of Program Steering Committee working together with Program Director to manage release and workstream activities/issues/risks against key KPI’s. Headed Program Management Office (PMO) and its resources. The project was a large hundred person SAP finance reporting implementation program to consolidate client’s 240 operating companies around the world.
Senior Business Consultant (Treasury System)
Paris
Areva is the world leader in offering solutions for nuclear and energy industry. Managed a large project team to deliver a full business analysis and scoping for Wall Street Systems treasury platform implementation. Successful delivery of full requirement gathering and the functional business analysis phase of the project based at the Areva Paris headquarters.
Senior Management Consultant (Treasury)
Den Hague
Delivery of technical and functional solutions to improve performance of business-critical trading activities in front office and back office. Worked with the treasury-trading platform Finance Kit (Wall Street Systems), FK/ComKit interfaces towards Misys CMS, Reuters, CLS, Swift and BoNY. Delivered also a large migration project to move trading system to a new SimCorp platform.
Business / Technical Consultant (Payments Systems)
Helsinki, Toronto
Finland’s largest payment card solutions company, issuer and acquirer of most credit card and debit card transactions EMV (Europay, Mastercard, Visa) in Finland. A complete delivery of a card transaction switch for the country of Finland. Functional system expert working together with a medium sized, yet very efficient, global project team to meet client’s high set of technical standards.
Senior Consultant
Amsterdam
Logica (LogicaCMG) was one of the largest business and technology consulting companies in Europe with currently over 70,000 staff in over 40 countries. Working with Logica’s key clients around Europe on Telecommunication and Finance related projects. Top performer in variety of roles from technology expert to business analysis to management. Executing projects against timelines and budgets for clients such as: ING INvestment Management – The Netherlands – Global investment management entity, KPN Telecoms – The Netherlands – The largest telecoms company in The Netherlands, LibertyGlobal – European wide – Leading global cable company, Nets – Finland/Canada – Global payments provider, Essent Energy – The Netherlands – Largest energy company in The Netherlands, ABN AMRO – Amsterdam – One of the largest banks in Europe.
Senior EAI Consultant (Telecoms Systems)
Den Hague
At the time one of the first and leading Java / Tibco Middleware implementations in the Europe. Development was done in UNIX environment using low-level Java, Tibco, Oracle, EDA, LDAP. The novel middleware solution was designed, developed and delivered within the tight deadline. One of the Tibco and LogicaCMG reference stories for the year 2001.
Senior Business Consultant (Capital Markets)
Amsterdam, London
Responsible for successfully managing delivery of Murex trading platform migration for front and back office trading of FX Option and Precious Metal Option. Client is ABN AMRO Global Markets trading entity, with over 40 stakeholders and team members spread out on global client locations in the city of London and The Netherlands.
Senior Business Consultant (Treasury System)
Santiago de Chile
BCI is one of the largest banks in Chile. Delivery of Wallstreet Suite treasury platform to support Front, Middle, Back Office, Risk and Accounting function of the bank’s treasury business. Due to the exotic Chilean local regulatory requirements, proposed solution was relatively complex in functionality; nevertheless, adequate for client to meet their high expectations.
OTHER EXPERIENCES
TBWA\DAN is a global digital agency, owned by WPP. Successfully managed digital projects for Nissan (re–launch of Datsun in emerging countries) and TNS (Nokia retail experience) against timeline and budget.
S1 was one of the most prominent Internet companies during the 1999 dot-com boom. The company offered Internet solutions to financial sector and was selected to the Fortune e-50 index (1999), composing the leading Internet companies in the world together with Amazon, AOL, eBay, Yahoo and Priceline.com. Worked as a Consultant to the European product development center in Rotterdam (and Brussels) during the year 2000, right in the middle of the dot-com mayhem.
Expert role for a largest energy provider in the Netherlands. Developing and designing middleware components using Java, Tibco and Oracle products in Unix environment. Responsible of the design and development of a large scale EAI solutions.
Leading Mobile Business Development activity for B2B clients. Initiation of three major proposal processes for few financial industry giants in China and Southeast Asia, as well as, a health sector client from California, US.
CX Group is a Social CRM company based in Austin, US and in Singapore. Company’s core product is a real-time consumer opinion management and social monitoring platform suited for diverse B2B verticals. The company is 2013 Red Herring Top 100 Global Winner. Clients include prominent brands from the US, Canada and Asia (Hilton, Radisson, Holiday Inn, DoubleTree, P&G, Swiss Belhotel and Pan Pacific).
Lecturer on the subjects of Mobile and Electronic Commerce (mixed class of international and Thai students).
Delivering analysis on a payment system implementation.
Delivery of European wide audit, covering all customer's European offices (Amsterdam, Vienna, Stockholm and Oslo).
Design and development of low level security components with C++ and LDAP on Unix for bank's demanding security environment.
Developed cutting edge database software for this global engineering company from their headquarters in Manchester, UK.
Red Dot Ventures is a seed-stage technology venture capital firm. Program manager to kickoff technology incubator, investment and startup training business in the Southeast Asia.
