2009-02-17T12:53:28Z Jouko holds an MBA from Helsinki School of Economics, a joint program with McCombs School of Business, at the University of Texas, Austin and a M.Sc.(Tech.) from Helsinki University of Technology. false Jouko Ahvenainen is Co-founder of Xtract Ltd. Jouko has 15 years experience in international business management. Before his serial entrepreneur career Jouko held progressively senior positions at diverse technology firms including Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Powerwave Technologies Inc., Nokia, and Sonera in various sales, managerial and management consulting positions. In all roles he has been a key driver to create new business. He is one of the pioneers in social media marketing, and personally had significant role to develop and sell the first social marketing intelligence solutions for mobile and media companies. He has also large traditional marketing experience, starting from some well known political campaigns in mid 90's. Jouko has vast experience of international business in Asia, Europe, and North America; he has lived and worked in Finland, Malaysia, UK, and the U.S. Jouko has worked in teams to close several VC deals (from 150k USD to 15M USD), and also closed many large customer deals and been responsible for 40M USD annual revenue. He started his first own software business when he was 16-year-old. Mr. Ahvenainen also serves as a Senior Partner at Replicon, a financial and business services company, where he is also a Certified Adviser in NasdaqOMX First North list at Helsinki and Stockholm stock exchanges. Jouko is on the boards of various start-up companies, and is a co-founder or seed investor in six companies. Jouko is a regular speaker in many marketing, start-up funding, mobile and web 2.0 conferences including Mobile World Congress (Barcelona), CTIA (San Francisco), and several Informa's, IIR's and others' conferences around Europe, Asia, and the US. He is also a co-author in Social Media Marketing book (Futuretext, London, Feb 2009). 72 85 false Personal http://www.joukoahvenainen.com Grow VC http://www.growvc.com Jouko Ahvenainen 5 image/jpeg jouko.jpg 1711 2009-02-17T14:54:39Z jouko-ahvenainen 2009-02-17T12:54:39Z 3