Grow your business with me

I’m an entrepreneur, sales & marketing professional, product development geek and a passionate business developer.

Want to accelerate your growth? Good.

About me

Who Am I?

I have over 15 years of experience in growing different businesses of both startups and large corporations. I am an entrepreneur at heart and mind and this marks my work no matter which role I currently have. So far I’ve successfully worked in sales & marketing, product development and management roles.

Expertise in

Management Teamwork Usability Scrum Design Leadership Implementation Sales Digitalization Software Marketing Product management People development Entrepreneurship

What I Do

Strategy

Strategy is a high level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty.

Product & Service Design

Product design develops a tangible product to be sold by a business to its customers. Service design approaches the same goal from an intangible aspect.

Marketing

Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.

Business Development

Business development entails tasks and processes to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between organizations.

Market Fit

Also known as product-market fit, is the degree to which a product satisfies a strong market demand.

Sales

A sale is a transaction between two or more parties in which the buyer receives goods, services or assets in exchange for money or other assets paid to a seller.

Processes

A process is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks by people or equipment which in a specific sequence produce a service or product for a particular customer(s).

Team Building

Team building is a collective term for various types of activities used to enhance social relations and define roles within teams, often involving collaborative tasks.
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Communications

A process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior.

MY CV

Education

Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor Of Business Administration (BBA)
2005-2008

My Bachelor of Business Administration studies focused on entrepreneurship offering a holistic foundation to run a business.

The Finnish Defence Forces
Military Police
2004-2005

The time in the army greens offered a crash course in teamwork, perseverance and discipline.

Lammi Upper Secondary School
Finnish Matriculation Examination
2001-2004

Work History

Builderhead
CEO & Co-Founder
2018 –

As a CEO and Co-Founder of Builderhead my current role is to work with the construction of the financial base, business model iteration, team building, initial customer acquisition and brand creation.

ZEF
COO & Product Owner
2013-2018

I worked at ZEF as a Chief Operating Officer and was as a member of the management team. I was responsible for strategic management and business development throughout the organization. My other main responsibility was being the product owner in the product development team.

What people say about me

David Hazan

While we worked together at Mobile Backstage, Sami demonstrated his international business expertise, creativity and ability to see the big picture. I also remember him as a hard worker and team player, and a highly valued member of our international sales team whose contributions were sorely missed once he moved on.

David Hazan

Joel Urnom

I worked with Sami for a year and a half on several Mobile Backstage projects at EMI Music Canada. As his client I can say that during that time he played an expert role as an account manager with excellent manner. Sami is punctual, honest, and a can-do type of a guy. I can warmly recommend him to any account manager position.

Joel Urnom

Kalle

Sami takes his daily work seriously with a good sense of humour. He founds out the way how to solve problems or issues. Sami’s best features are: Sales orientated, customer relationship management, project coordinating and fresh thinking of business in generally.

Kalle Hämäläinen

Kati Kouhia-Kuusisto

I was Sami´s teacher and coach during his studies at TAMK. I remember Sami as an excellent student, who did not only do his schoolwork well but also took responsibility of the whole team he was studying with. Sami is a pleasant person, who got well along with other students and teachers. I can warmly recommend Sami to any position he´s interested in. I know he´ll do his job well.

Kati Kouhia-Kuusisto

Jussi Sulin

Sami really is a team player who continuously improves the processes he’s dealing with. He’s been in a key role in building the new orientation portfolio for Siemens Financial Services. I can recommend Sami to all positions that include process development and B2B sales.

Jussi Sulin

Paavo Beckman

Sami truly shows an entrepreneurial spirit in whatever he’s doing. He has an incredible talent of holding things together and he gets committed in a level that any employer would appreciate.

Paavo Beckman

Lotta Maisonlahti

I have worked with Sami the past year and I find him a highly motivated young talent who does his job with a professional attitude and a smile on his face. He also is a strong communicator who makes his customers and team feel completely comfortable and know they can rely on him. His social and friendly personality makes him easy to work with and I never had any problems whatsoever with Sami

Lotta Maisonlahti

Tunkelo

It was a pleasure to get to know Sami as we worked together, always a dependable fellow with a keen sense of responsibility and performance. His no-nonsense, systematic approach to sales impressed me quite a bit, as well as his entrepreneurial attitude and breadth of knowledge. I’d recommend him any day for a high-level sales, marketing or management position.

Juho Tunkelo

Janne Airo

I’ve hired Sami twice, first for internship at Playground Music and later to manage projects at Steam Republic. Best recruit I’ve ever made, and I would hire Sami again, any time. Labeling Sami as a good project manager would not do him justice, he’s more of a Leader of Implementation, a person who takes initiative and put ideas into action, shares information, engages others, multitasks with ease, speaks up when necessary and gets things done. He doesn’t only understand the Big Picture, he can contribute to it as well, and he’s great with customers, aiming to make them happy. Did I already mention that he’s really nice guy too?

Janne Airo

Ville

Sami is the definition of professional. Goal orientated, hard working and always positive. Sami also is a true cameleont – no matter what kind of an task is given Sami will take care of it with uncompromising results. Huge ambitions towards business, entrepreneurship and personal development makes him great. I truly enjoyed working with this gentleman.

Ville Köngäs

Antti

Sami is hardworking professional who has clear dreams and goals. He keeps fighting and finding best ways to succeed. Sami is also lovable person who cares about people first. I had honor to work with Sami about 2 years in ZEF. I can highly recommend him for any sales or sales directing position! So, if you want to succeed with your business, here is a guy to make it happen!

Antti Haapsaari

Merja Laitinen

Sami was a reliable, initiative and also successful insurance agent. He was also very much liked by both our clients as well as colleagues and other co-workers. I can warmly recommend Sami to any customer related duty.

Merja Laitinen

sami [dot] kivensalo [at] gmail [dot] com

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