Jaakko Hallavo

Hallavo Jaakko is a digital executive with a startup mindset who has extensive experience in consulting and advising telco, b2b, and retail firms to embrace digital disruptions. Over the years, Jaakko has demonstrated a proven record in helping companies develop and implement digital strategies, create business horizons and governance models, drive business agility, enhance dev team dynamics, set up technology and architecture roadmaps, and optimize operational models. Furthermore, he is an entrepreneur at heart, playing critical roles in strategy creation, business development, project deliveries, and growth tactics. He has built commercial offers and scaled multidisciplinary teams while supporting his team's personal growth. He has also served as a senior member of sales teams, ensuring that his organizations secure major deals. Additionally, Jaakko is a tech enthusiast with considerable knowledge of different digital technologies and end-to-end architectures. He has worked with virtually all the leading tech vendors such as SAP CX / hybris, Salesforce, Episerver, AWS, Azure, among others, as well as modern SaaS tools (e.g., commercetools, Contentful, Algolia), and custom cloud-native stacks.

Jaakko is renowned as a pioneer in eCommerce, is a public speaker on the subject, and has authored the "Verkkokaupan rautaisannos 2013," a comprehensive guide and playbook for successful e-commerce strategy, concept development, solution architecture, and process optimization. He is also taking a sabbatical to plan his next steps.