Flash mentoring
- Arcada
The event Flash mentoring organised by Arcada and Karriärcenter Arabia offers an opportunity where alumni get to meet students to discuss employment and careers.
The event will be held on Tuesday, April 5 at 9.00-11.00 at Arcada.
Our students get to network and ask the mentors for advice regarding studies, careers and working life. For our alumni, this is a possibility to inspire and share their valuable expertise and insights.
Student, do you want to participate? Register here External link by 3.4.2022.
Our mentors
Rick Aller
"I am the co-founder and CEO of 720° - the world's first Indoor Climate AI platform. We believe that health and satisfaction at work is everyone’s prerogative. We work at the intersection of sustainability, artificial intelligence, IoT and organisational theory, to improve the indoor environmental quality everywhere. 720° was acquired in 2021 by Swegon Group AB, part of Investment AB Latour, and I continued my work as CEO in 720°."
Niclas Borenius
“I work as a Business Development Manager at a small IT (SaaS) company called Viima. In short, our business is about developing and selling (B2B) our digital tool for collaborative idea management and innovation. Since March 2021, we are also part of the German HYPE Group. My tasks as part of the BDM team, and also as a partner in the company, are strongly linked to sales. This includes direct sales work, but also customer service, development of our working methods etc. As a partner in a small company like Viima, a big advantage is also the versatility of the work and being able to participate in the development of the business on a slightly broader level, for example in the development of our digital tool or in recruitment processes. I see the versatility of the work as a great advantage, especially as a relatively young person in the working world. Looking forward to further discussion with you all!”
Kim Brander
“I work at Ernst & Young (EY) as a consultant. My focus area is within major transformations within the finance sector. During the recent years I have worked with building and developing strategies for big 5-10 years transformations and what the future customer contact can look like through service design methods. I have worked at EY for about four years, and I have been very happy to work with customers and colleagues from around the world.”
Léne Fransila
“Briefly about me, I'm an energetic and customer-centric full stack growth marketer with experience of global businesses in the banking (Nordea), recruiting (Barona), payments (Nets & Visa) and igniting renewal in the executive education industry (Hanken & SSE Executive Education). I am also a part-time entrepreneur and the founder of Spiritly, a small-scale marketing agency. Some may say I'm pretty good at growth marketing, sales, investor relations, content marketing, building and managing brands and social media. I'm multi-lingual and I've lived in several countries, the UK, Spain and briefly in Ecuador. I hold an MBA in International Business Management from Arcada and have completed executive education programmes in digital innovation and brand building at the Stockholm School of Economics. I don't like being held back by process and over-planning is not my thing. I'm passionate about growth, digital, tech and love helping and getting people on board to get the job done!
Johanna Hannus
“I have a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from Arcada and a Master of Arts Degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Lund University. In my professional career I have always worked with international business, first as a Management Consultant at Business Sweden in Egypt and Finland. Later with Executive Search at Alumni and Harvey Nash before moving into the IT sector as Country Manager for Finland and Estonia for a SaaS scaleup called Briox. Today I work at Hanaholmen - cultural centre for Sweden and Finland where I lead two bilateral leadership programs - Tandem Leadership and Arctic Lead - as well as develop Hanaholmen's work with promoting and developing bilateral business networks and cooperation between Finland and Sweden. I am passionate about people management and human resources as well as bringing together people and businesses to spark new projects and cooperations.”
Marriam Irfan
“I moved to Finland in 2015 with a couple of years of work experience in sales and marketing and an MBA. In 2016, I decided to enroll in a Master’s program in International Business Management at Arcada. During my studies, I joined a global Finnish startup developing an employee advocacy and internal communications SaaS application. My role involved the business development of the product in the French, Italian, Spanish, and UK markets. In 2018, I joined Nokia where I’m currently working in a project management role in Cloud and Network Services business unit. I’m responsible for various projects which include employee competence development, internal and external communications, new employees onboarding, and sales enablement of partners and sales teams.”
Thomas Kovanen
“I graduated from Arcada’s Swedish Nursing programme in January 2018. My career within healthcare started by working two summers in elderly care. After that, I have worked at Malmi Hospital and Meilahti Hospital, circulating between different departments, depending on where I was most needed. Most of my shifts were done either at the Department for Infections or the ER. Today I work at Peijas Hospital. I work within cardiology, internal medicine, hematology, neurology, respiratory care, urology, knee and hip prosthetics, trauma and orthopedics, and the day ward. My work is extremely inspiring and varies from day-to-day. Even with such varied tasks, my specialty lies within palliative care, and I have completed 30 ECTS of advanced studies within the subject. I also actively teach my colleagues the knowledge I have gained. My future ambitions include completing a master's degree within pallative care. On top of my job at the hospital, I’m also active through Seure, which gives me the freedom to work when and where I want.”
Birgitta Langenskiöld
“I am working with finance and investments, back-office tasks, doing research for representatives and their investment network, attending meetings and events online and face-to-face with board representatives and managers from start-ups, growth companies and Venture Capital & Growth Equity Funds in Finland, Sweden, and Europe. I also work from time to time as a midwife/doula and support families during pregnancy, childbirth and with the newborn and during the time the child grows. I find working with new teams inspiring. I am happy to learn about the market disruptions early on directly from the different companies working with various solutions for the future. Even with my broad education, I see every day as a new possibility to widen my perspective and learn from others. I look forward to more board assignments after completing my Boardman Oy education later this spring. I can also imagine board work for foundations and other large institutions for profit or non-profit whose primary focus is on human well-being and to strengthen the people in society. I am looking forward to meeting you all at Arcada and to share my experiences of studies and work!”
Wilhelm Nielsen
“I graduated as Bachelor of Occupational therapy in the winter of 2020. Since then I have worked as an occupational therapist and healthcare provider at Folkhälsan, within elderly care and mental care. I am a social person who likes physical training and theatre. I am also an active ambassador for the platform “Projekt Prata” with the task to inform and neutralize the view of stuttering and people who stutter. My fondest memory from my study time is all the practical training, that varied a lot when it comes to location, target groups and responsibility. It was also great meeting so many different people during my student life!”
Paul Nix
“At the Time Repair Corporation our primary focus is impacting globally-scaled sustainability problems through empowerment and education. For example our current collaboration with Pakotarinat in Espoo has led to the creation of a series of escape rooms, the room we are building at the moment will be a sustainability lab/ technology showcase/ escape room. I have focused on mobilizing change by supporting students, teachers, and communities to start projects that will inevitably change the world! I am actively directing new practical futurists to create one-pagers laying out their own new projects, and challenging them to begin immediately. So come by and get started.”
Tony Wainio
“Digital Marketing Specialist, Expert Generalist, father, husband, cycling enthusiast and avid photographer. I have over 10 years of experience in graphic design, marketing strategy, digital marketing, search engine marketing and optimization, data analytics, attribution modeling and system integration. I'm quite happy to share where I failed, what I've learnt and where the triumphs have come from so you don't have to repeat my mistakes. Data validation and analytics are at the heart of everything I've been doing for the last few years, and the correct interpretation of that data is the main challenge. At this point I'd like to quote Nobel-laureate Ronald H. Coase: "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything". I absolutely enjoy listening to and talking with people who are passionate about what they do, be it interior design or trash collecting. If you like what you do, I'd like to hear about it.”