Ilkka Vertanen

As a sales director, I am in charge of GetJenny's customer acquisition and scaling our sales organisation. We automate robot-like conversations and tasks through an easy-to-use interface that enables companies to quickly and easily train, deploy, and maintain the AI without programming, allowing the people to focus on tasks that require empathy, emotional intelligence, and life experience.

Giosg.com is a software company providing smart and user-friendly tools for e-commerce and online retail. As Director of Retail and E-Commerce, I’m leading giosg.com’s efforts in retail, telecom, travel, insurance, and banking sectors. I'm committed to increasing my clients’ online sales and conversion rates using a combination of conversion marketing techniques and machine learning.

As a Business Development Manager I worked to improve our market position by identifying business opportunities, acquiring new clients and growing existing accounts. My primary role was to introduce Giosg’s solutions to new customers and help them to sell more online by increasing their websites’ conversion rate and/or collecting more sales leads. To reach my goals I worked with our sales and support teams as well as our extensive partner network.

Touché is an online store for fencing equipments. Running my own company has taught me great deals on daily business life, B2C business, e-commerce and online marketing. After 5 years I closed down my business and headed towards new challenges.

K.A.Weiste Oy is both one of the leading and one of the oldest manufacturers of Christmas decorations in Europe. In addition to the manufacture of decorations, K.A.Weiste Oy carries out importation of other Christmas products, along with interior decoration articles and florist products. As online sales coordinator, my duties included managing online sales, coordinating the further development of the e-commerce solution, and marketing of new sales channel.

Master of Science (MSc): Economics and Business Administration Major: Marketing Minor: Business Law Master's thesis about how e-retailer can leverage user-generated data in their sales, marketing, and product management.

Classes attended: Technology Entrepreneurship in Korea Entrepreneurial Management Business Of Sports New Communication Technology & Information Society Media Communication In Korea

Aalto University School of Business: Bachelor of Science (BSc): Economics and Business Administration, Marketing (Management of marketing communications and sales) Bachelor’s Thesis: Consumer's Purchasing Decision in E-commerce and Increasing Value of Average Purchase

Helsinki University of Technology