I come from Riga, Latvia -- a small country in Northern Europe.I studied electrical engineering and ICT at the Riga Technical University and have been working in Industry, Energy and ICT in the Nordics and Baltics for the last 20 years, first as Sales Engineer (1993), then as Department Manager (1995-2000), then as Director and Business Development Director and Product manager for various clients including myself; Executive management experience includes top positions in FEGIME, Siemens, ABB, Latvenergo, Booking Group in the Baltics / Nordics.

2012 I've joined Latvian Tech Startup Ecosystem as entrepreneur, mentor, advisor and acceleration program tutor;

2013 Chair Commercialization Reactor; VP Marketing

2013 co-founded StartupLatvia; VP Marketing, Co-organized Latvian Startups Missions to Silicon Valley

2013 started new ventures. Mentored several startups;
2013 co-organized two Commercialization Reactor events;
2013 co-tutor at Commercialization Reactor Accelerator;

2014 co-organized 1st ever Startup Weekend event in Riga as Leading Organizer
2014 co-organized 1st ever Startup Weekend in Liepaja part of Global Startup Battle 2014;

2015 co-organized 2 (two) Startup Weekend events in Riga as Leading Organizer

2013 global car rental VP Digital Marketing, Affiliate Program coordinator and Growth Hacker at BookingGroup.com biggest Latvian eCommerce startup operating EconomyBookings.com and eAvtoprokat.ru ;

2016 Fintech Startup co-founder

2016 Managing Director FEGIME Finland & Baltics , Tuusula, Finland