"It is the function of creative people to perceive relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expressions
  that seem utterly different, and to be able to Connect the seemingly Unconnected". - William Plomer -

 svenska  *  suomi

INTRODUCTION & REFERENCES

I'm a marketing professional born in 1958, living in Helsinki with my (x) wife (Maria) and two boys, Anton & Aleksi, born in 1989 and -91. My mother language is Swedish, I speak Finnish, English and understand fairly good German (Salzburger Schilehrer Verband 1980-1983).

Hobbies; Thinking, imagining and writing - flyfishing, trekking, skiing and sailing.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOW-HOW

Since 1980, I've been working within marketing communication as an marketing director, marketing manager, PR, sponsorship and event marketing consultant, entrepreneur and as a partner of a few advertising, PR and event marketing agencies, and as a marketing communication consultant for both commercial and non-profit organizations and the media.

In 1999-2000 I worked in the leading group of Modern Times Group Ltd. as the marketing director. My sphere of responsibilities consisted of launching and marketing Metro (daily) in Finland (metropolitan area), internal marketing, launching of the loyalty club of Metro, Club Metro and international contacts.

WELL CONNECTED

I'm very well connected. I've worked together with an amount of commercial and uncommercial organizations in various business and Cultural areas. The Finnish media people in TV, radio and the press are not unfamiliar to me. I've been co-operating with many associations and federations, with athletes, artists, writers, graphic designers, philosophers, teachers, lecturers, futurologists, and with professionals in many other areas.

I have thousands of professional contacts who are connected with millions of other professionals and decision makers globally. I belong to and run an amount of global business networks and group forums. On XING alone, out of 14 other networking platforms, I have personally + 5 775 contacts connected with more than 860 500 professionals and decision makers globally: http://www.xing.com/go/invite/3171808.c7eb86 < click here - to get more information, and to register for free.


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CONNECTING THE UNCONNECTED

For now I work as an entrepreneur, as a marketing integrator and communication coordinator. I'm a marketing communication consultant running a virtual organisation hunting after factual connections, synergies, networks, partners and naturally new interesting clients, operations and projects within marketing communication and project management in Finland, but globally as well.

CHARASTERISTICS AND PERSONALITY

I'd like to characterise my way of thinking as lateral and very open minded, my way of action effective and my circle of contacts as exceptionally wide. The keywords of my activities are factual connections, creativity, interactivity, cost-effectivity, multiplicative effects and added-value. My slogan is Connects the Unconnected, and motto: Think the Unthinkable and Move the Immovable.

VISION

Synergialaitos.Com ("Synergy Society") was renamed and internationalized in 2005 as SICU, which is the acronyme of Synergy Integrated - Connects the Unconnected. It's the the largest multifunctional virtual organization in Europe, which operates globally through an amount of affiliates, multidisciplinary professional and experts... to serve the single client by forming optimal think tanks, work groups and/or service cluster teams in order to solve problems of single clients locally, regionally, nationally and globally.

 Working history

  • 2006.........   - Founded SICU Synergy Solutions Group to support the activities of SICU's global activities as a virtual organization > www.Synergialaitos.Com/sicu_news.htm * www.Synergialaitos.Com/partners.htm * www.Synergialaitos.Com/newsletter1.11.2006.htm.
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  • 2006.........   - Renaming, designing and launching Synergialaitos.Com as SICU (Synergy Integrated - Connects the Unconnected) because of that the activities became very quickly international.
     
  • 2004-2006... - Building-up an globally extensive business network including thousands of contacts connected with millions of other professionals and decision makers globally.
     
  • 1999 - 2000 - Oy Modern Times 3 Ab (Metro) > (A MTG Publishing Company)
     
  • 1999........... - Founded Synergialaitos.Com - A multidimensional virtual organisation specialized in marketing communication, in unconventional marketing methods, business networking and in project and event management
     
  • 1996 - 2006 - Tomcom Marketing Communication Oy. Entrepreneur, marketing communication consultant
     
  • 1995 - 1996 - A partner of Grey Eminence Ltd. PR Agency ( An affiliate of GCI Group )
     
  • 1991 - 1996 - T&M Project Management - Entrepreneur - a partner of Eastway Sound & Lightning
     
  • 1988 - 1991 - Lintas:Helsinki (Ad-agency) > Lintas:Promotion  > Impulse:International ( affiliates of Interpublic Group of Companies ).
    Project manager, in charge of sponsorship, event marketing, promotions and public relations. Lintas-Helsinki bought Action Guides ( 3-year contract )
     
  • 1986 - 1988 - Ay Action Guides - Entrepreneur - Integrating sponsorship, event marketing and promotional activities in the Total Communication of clients ( one of the first sponsorship and event marketing agencies in Finland )
     
  • 1980 - 1986 - Nordforce Oy/Golden Sports Oy - Marketing director. Importing sport goods to Finland and creating a chain of 78 dealers in Finland

A few References

Links underlined in red!

- Finnish Marketing Association - Rewarded as the Media Professional of the Year.

- Ranked as one of the ten Marketing Stars in Finland by the leading magazine of
 
Marketing & Advertising
in Finland ( M & M 1995 > the leading Marketing &
  Advertising Magazine )

- Creating, planning and execution of marketing and communication concepts,
  product and service launches, sponsorship programs events... for a huge amount
  of commercial and uncommercial organizations ( 1986 - 2003... )

- Association of Finnish Labour (commission of trust 1996-2001) - A member of
  the Communication Committee.

- Lecturer in an amount of marketing seminars and congresses

- Special articles in business & marketing magazines, journals, TV- and radio
   Intervues
about unconventional marketing and co-operations.

Projects, events, co-operations and other assignments

SICU Synergy Solutions Group: original idea, conceptualizing, launch, marketing, coordination...

Winning Company ja/tai Winning Ice & Fire yritystapahtumat ja sovellutukset

Winning Company Round Table Confrence tapahtuman markkinointi sekä kehittäminen hyödynnettäksi kansainvälisesti.

Properation Spektra is a multilayer (CSR) project, which starts a multidimensional process to increase public safety, and to develop the safety culture in Finland. The original idea, project & campaign planning, and marketing... for the Finnish National Rescue Association... (launch 1/2006). A project and process to be internationalized beginning from 2007.

WOLF in Culture - A multidimensional culture production and a multimedia project ( conceptualizing the original idea, project management, marketing and communication). Searching for collaboration partners.

F.I.S. - FedEx Express Speedskiing World Cup - The original  idea, conceptualizing and connecting the event and the image od speedskiing to support the Corporate Communication and Brand marketing of FedEx Express in a short- and long term to branch out the cooperation internationally beginning from 2006. 

Calpis Bike Park - The original idea, execution and marketing of the leading Mountain Biking Center in Finland

Kalpalinna Cross Center - Creating, planning and execution a new cross-marketing communication concept and a new set of activities for including corporate events, PR and social events ( The CCC-concept; Calpis Cross Center  ).

Creating, planning and execution of an amount of Corporate Events  for various corporations in Kalpalinna in 2001 - 2004 ( The concept; " Calpis Family Fun " ).

Finnish municipalities ( EU-project ) - Creating and planning of the co-marketing concept and activities connecting five (5) Finnish municipalities. The concept; 'The region with a pure set of environmental values'.

Millenium 2 000 - The Year of Hope ( Jesus 2 000 ) - Creating the content for the communication concept for the National Church Board in Finland ( The context and concept; 'Silence' ).

Mandatum Private Bank - Planning a serie of corporate events for Mandatum.

SOKOS (second largest department store in Finland) -  Creating the idea and context of relaunch - concept planning, events and promotions ( The concept: 'A Day as Millionaire' ).

ABB - Ceating & executing the event -concept of the launch of ABB's EU-2000 air-conditioning plant.

Akseli Gallen-Kallela Art Exhibition (The concept; To improve cheese and wine culture in Finnish restaurants) - Idea generation, product development, marketing, PR, sponsorship and event marketing planning and excecution, financing and event arrangements of the grand 

Helsingin Sanomat (largest newspaper in Finland - Sanoma WSOY ) -  Coaching/ consulting  and its sales and marketing departments to utilize sponsorship and event marketing more effectively ( lectures and concepts )

Finnish National Gallery (Museum of Contemprary Art, The Museum of Finnish Art and the Museum of Foreign Art) - Reconstructing the profile and image of the  by bilateral marketing communication and financing its marketing activities in co-operation with Helsingin Sanomat.

Linda Lampenius (super-sexy & talented fiddler) - Product development and implementation of Lindas image in Björn Borg collections product marketing and communication in Scandinavia and internationally.

Marlboro Classics World Meeting in Pyhätunturi fell ( Concept; Wild West Weekend in Finnish Lapland ) - Creating the idea and concept - planning and co-ordination of several yearly events.

ARS 95 interantional contempoary art exhibition - artists from 90 countries, 12 sponsors (companies, products, services + media ), 22 corporate events in the museum for 12 000 guests ao. Product development, marketing, PR, sponsorship, event marketing planning, financing and arrangements of the international

Hype the Musical - Product development, marketing, PR, sponsorship and event marketing planning, financing and arrangements of Hype the Musical. Open case-examples; and The Hype Card of Aktia Bank.

Telecom Finland (Telia-Sonera) - Creating the idea and concept - planning and execution of an serie of internal marketing concepts and events for the management  (370 directors), and for 3 500 employees of after a huge reorganization (-4 000 people)

Alvar Aalto 100-years Anniversary - Creating the idea and planning of the project

The City of Jyväskylä - Planning of the re-profiling of Jyväskylä  as the hometown of Alvar Aalto.

Paavo Nurmi 100-years Anniversary - Creating the idea and planning of the project.

Finnish Cultural Institute in Stockholm - Planning the re-launch of the institute.

National Board of Education - Creating the idea and concept - planning and organizing the funding for an'Environmental education project' in Finland, and an 'International Environmental Congress', A Northern Call for the Environment, and combining it with the environmental program of Finnish Post.

'Going to Kansas City' - Planning of the film marketing concept for a Finnish-Canadian production

Moving Picture 100-years' Anniversary ( Finland) -  A member of the marketing board.

Finland Post - Creating the idea, planning and execution sponsorship programs, PR and Social events for  on the way to Albertville Olympics.

Product development, conceptualizing and marketing of several World Cup, Europa Cup and European Championship events in Speed-Skiing, Freestyle and Snowboarding for national and international sponsors.

Marketing of Markku Wiikeris' Whitbread Round The World Maxi-project for national and international sponsor corporations and media...

...just to mention a few of my former operations

When you're looking for synergy, energy experience and content - know-how, factual connections, and
for new ideas and opportunities and/or businesscontacts, please contact SICU Synergy.

 


 
 
  
For more information, please contact...

    For more information, please contact the head office of Synergy Integrated, which is
    located between my shoulders on your right.
 

    Tom Merilahti
    Synergy Integrated Int.
    Connects the Unconnected.

    Tom@Synergialaitos.Com
    Mobile head office +358 40 825 5053

    www.Synergialaitos.Com