Arto Joensuu

Small Business Owner, Father, and Public Speaker in Espoo, Finland

Arto Joensuu

Small Business Owner, Father, and Public Speaker in Espoo, Finland

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Arto Joensuu is a digital change agent with over 20 years of professional experience across startups as well as large multinational corporations. His professional expertise lies within a profound understanding of the digital landscape and it’s impact on companies both small and large. Whether it’s about leading a large corporation into the digital era, or helping startups cross the tipping point, Joensuu has been there in the trenches and has the battle scars to prove it. He also has extensive industry experience from gaming, telecommunications, classifieds as well as mobile services industries.

Throughout his career, he has held several leadership positions, ranging from pioneering in digital/mobile marketing at iobox/Terra Mobile during the late 90's to spearheading the company wide digital strategy and execution at Nokia.

At dubizzle.com, Joensuu was responsible for establishing the marketing organization as well as creating an in-house creative, media and customer wow team to support the overall regional expansion efforts of the company. He also spearheaded a transformational re-branding initiative, which had profoundly positive implications across the entire company. This initiative led to a streamlined vision, common set of values and a cultural transformation that could serve as a platform for growth across the organization. He later continued as dubizzle’s CEO, spearheading the company’s monetization efforts, regional expansion and operational alignment with majority owner Naspers.

He has a BBA in international business from Helia as well as an executive education from INSEAD and Harvard Business School.

His work has been rewarded with several industry awards and for the last years, he has acted as a spokesperson on digital/mobile marketing, brand building through social media as well as leadership in the digital era.

He is currently based out of Espoo, Finland.

More information about previous work, including recommendations available upon request.