Finland Speakers 2017

Riitta Palmén, As a M.Sc. (Finance) and entrepreneur, she live and work in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. She is the founding partner and senior consultant at Palmén & Charpentier Investing Oy, a management consultancy focusing on helping Finnish SMEs in their financial and strategic situations. She is also an investment manager of Media for Equity, the only media fund in Finland investing media time in growing Finnish b-t-c companies. She is passionate about world-changing start-ups that disrupt old ways of thinking, and offer new, transparent, global and sustainable ways of doing business and connecting people. Her work (to identify and work with these companies) is grounded in a thorough understanding of business models, acid testing of growth strategies as well as evaluation of the management teams and their commitment. Pure intentions, well-protected innovations, efficient implementation and high integrity in all endeavors create a winning formula for a start-up’s internatio