Anu Halme

- Created new and fruitful customer relationships with companies like Kotipizza, Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Rovio, and Bell&Pottinger. - Got more than one thousand of users through direct sales and digital marketing for the new Hammerkit Studio, a web application building toolkit and platform in the cloud. - As part of the Management Team orchestrated the change of strategy involving international investment and expansion to the UK.

• Successfully gardened big operator accounts (< 1 Million € per year) in German-speaking Europe like Vodafone, Jamba, T-Mobile, Swisscom, E-Plus and o2, and improved the revenue through good partnerships and joint marketing campaigns. • Opened and negotiated new agreements with resellers. Enjoyed the international and creative environment of the Sumea Studio and learned a lot of Quality Assurance, Product Management and Software Development projects.

- After a merge of one Finnish, one British and one US company, successfully continued the German customer relationships and established new ones with Nordic operator clients, like Elisa and Sonera. - Managed to handle very fast moving product portfolio from simple text-based games to Java games and first smartphone apps.

• Opened and got partnerships signed with big operator clients like T-Mobile or o2 in a new market during the dot.com – boom. • Learned a lot of the structure of an international company, license business with global brands, and how to organize international sales. While the company spent a lot of money for marketing licenses like “Lord of the Rings” or “X-Men” I negotiated good deals with operators and got the products live.

• In charge for the Public and Media Relations of City of Helsinki. • Managed to build media relationships with important German newspapers and TV-stations and promote the European Capital of Culture 2000. • Created and edited several issues of a printed newsletter “Helsinki News”. • Organised trips for German journalists to Helsinki and guided the tours.

Bevölkerungswissenschaften und Einwanderung. Ich war damals selber ein Einwanderer und fand die Integrationsthemen spannend.