Ville Availa

Director, Public Speaker, and Consultant in Finland

Ville Availa

Director, Public Speaker, and Consultant in Finland

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I’m always in multiple roles: founder, developer, business leader, public speaker,... The reason is that I am eager to change the world and help people to make things better and smarter. That’s why circular economy, digitalization, ecosystems, and future scenarios fit with transformation and sustainable growth.

I founded Ambientia when I was 18 years old and in high school. We put hardly any money on the company then and we haven’t taken any external investors or funding during these 25 years. Company has grown and been profitable every fiscal year since 1996. Number of employees increased from two people to over two hundred. How did this happen? The answer is brave sales work and understanding customer needs. I had to start finding customers from day one. While I was working as the CEO, sales and marketing were always at the top of my mind. I always found new customers through networks and participated in sales. If you don’t meet the customers, you won’t have any idea what their real needs, demands or sentiments are.

As a Business Transformation Director, I’m working with the customers in their most strategic change programs. This means visionary, strategic, tactic and even operative actions. Together we will set up targets, metrics, optimization, business and technological architecture, change management processes and ways to follow and lead this development in the long run.

The advisor work at Double Round Ltd., which operates in the circular economy area, consists of several areas: keynote speaking, networking, consulting work and development of product and services. So far, I have worked with several different industries, developed ecosystems and business models and found out the current potential and possibilities of different organizations. Internal development has been related with analytic methods, business development processes and verifying the origins and life cycles of products.

The other important roles are board memberships in different companies and associations.

  • Work
    • Founder & Director
  • Education
    • EMBA, Aalto University