Group Management

Kimmo Havu

CEO

Kimmo has over 20 years of experience in the software and technology sector, working for large global organizations. Prior to M-Brain he has held positions at SAS Institute as Managing Director for Finland and as Financial Services Industry Leader for the Nordic market. Prior to SAS Institute, he held leadership positions at IBM.

Stuart Reynish

Chief Product Officer

Prior to M-Brain, Stuart was leading business development and marketing functions, as well as the Content Services business at AAC Global. Before that he was in management positions related to business and process development at Nokia Networks.

Eetu Laaksonen

Chief Technology Officer

Eetu has been working with M-Brain since the very beginning and has operated as a hands-on leader of our technology architecture. Working closely with management team and the board, Eetu has been one of the key people for M-Brain’s technical and commercial innovators.

Henna Pellonmaa

Chief Financial Officer

Henna is an experienced finance professional with 17 years of experience in group accounting, accounting processes, finance systems and management accounting. Prior to joining M-Brain, Henna worked for Solteq Plc, a publicly listed software company.

Joakim Nyberg

Chief Governance Officer

Kati Tammisto

Chief Marketing Officer

Joost
Drieman

Vice President Intelligence Best Practices

Before joining M-Brain, Joost was director Market and Business Intelligence at Cisco, VP marketing and strategy at Telindus, director business development at Tandem USA and advisor for the European Community.

Dipl.ing microelectronics at HTS (NL)
MBA strategy at University of Antwerp (B)
MSc coaching at University of Portsmouth (UK)

Carsten
Gayer

Managing Director, Germany

Prior to founding his own consulting company which later merged into Global Intelligence Alliance/M-Brain, Carsten worked at McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Master of Science, Ruhr University Bochum

Kian Chzen
Quek

Country Manager, Malaysia

Before joining M-Brain Quek worked as a Production Manager and Country Manager at Esmerk Information Services.

Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Mass Communication, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)

Thomas
Rideg

President & Regional CEO, Americas

Prior to joining M-Brain, Thomas was SVP for Western Europe, Greater China and previously Latin America for GIA (acquired by M-Brain). Prior to GIA Thomas was AMD at Kroll Associates, Brazil and formerly partner of InfoAmericas (acquired by Kroll).

Master of Business Administration (Market Strategy) University of Leeds, UK
Bachelor’s degree in International Business from St. Mary’s, USA

Irene
De Lorenzis

Managing Director, UK

Irene is a business leader with 16 years of experience in consultancy and business development within the market intelligence arena, having worked at Canalys, a market intelligence company in the tech space, previous to joining GIA in 2010 (acquired by M-Brain in 2014).

Ba (Hons) European Studies
Masters in European Studies and International Relations