Group Management
Management team
Mikael
Makkonen
CEO
Mikael has worked for M-Brain in various positions including overall responsibility for content production services in the group, heading the business in the Asia region and spearheading several strategically important initiatives. Prior to M-Brain, Mikael was VP of Translation and Localisation Services at AAC Global, a Sanoma Company, where he managed services in 6 countries.
Bachelor of Engineering, Lahti Polytechnic & Institute of Design.
Joakim
Nyberg
Chief Strategy Officer
Joakim is the former Marketing Manager of M-Brain. Prior to M-Brain, Joakim worked at the Royal Danish Embassy in Helsinki.
Master of Science, Hanken School of Economics.
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.
Masters of Arts (History) from University of Eastern Finland and Massey University (NZ).
Kimmo
Valtonen
Chief Technology Officer
Prior to M-Brain, Kimmo led several machine learning research projects across the EU.
Masters of Science (Computer Science), University of Helsinki.
Extended Management Team
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
Yekaterina
Levochskaya
Country Manager, Russia
Prior to joining M-Brain, Yekaterina was working as a Country Manager at Esmerk's Russia and CIS operations.
Master of Business Administration, International Management Institute of St.Petersburg
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
Lee
West
Managing Director, UK & Middle East
Prior to M-Brain, Lee was working in the UK banking sector with a strong new business focus.
Studied Business Management at Farnborough College of Technology, UK.
Elvis
Yang
Head of Asia
Elvis has more than 20 years’ experience in business development and team management. Prior to joining M-Brain he has worked in the IT industry and in Management Consulting industry.
EMBA at Fudan University
Board of Directors
Kim
Nyberg
Chairman of the Board
Antti
Aho
Member
Krista
Karli
Member
Petri
Laine
Member
Marjukka
Nyberg
Member
Esko
Torsti
Member
