Group Management

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).

Eetu
Laaksonen

Chief Technology 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

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