Please, download the PDF file to check the participants on the Mission that is located in the end of this page! Please, increase your knowledge about the participants with the following brief information! Kymenlaakson Liitto The Regional Council of Kymenlaakso is a federation of seven municipalities, promoting the interests of Kymenlaakso region. The main tasks are regional development, spatial and environmental planning and promoting regional interests. Regional Development is mainly carried out by EU and state funded projects, administered by the Regional Council. The Kymenlaakso region (the River Kymi Valley) is located in South-Eastern Finland next to Russian border and by the Gulf of Finland between two growing centers Helsinki and St Petersburg. Our main logistical strengths are renewable highway E18 which is bringing the region even closer to Helsinki and St Petersburg metropolitan areas. Kymenlaakso also has a great accessibility by the sea via largest cargo port of Finland, Port of HaminaKotka. Logistics chain continues by railway to Kouvola and all the way to Caucasian Vladivostok. High speed train “Allegro” takes just 2 hours 20 minutes from Kouvola to Saint Petersburg. Vaalimaa Border Crossing point to Russia, on the eastern border of EU is located on the region having over 3 million border crossings yearly.
Kymenlaakso offers a stable business environment in the North-East Part of the European Union with an easy access to Russian markets. The Regional Council of Kymenlaakso encourages Finnish companies to enlarge their business in the Portuguese speaking world and welcomes Azorean companies and stakeholders to operate in Kymenlaakso region! Mr. Juha Haapaniemi is the Region Mayor of Kymenlaakso. Mobile: +358 503.683.931 More information, here: http://www.kymenlaakso.fi/kieliversiot/englanti/index.html Mr. Toni Vanhala is the Head of International Affairs of the Region of Kymenlaakso. Mobile: +358 405.123.356 More information, here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vanhalatoni Cursor Cursor Oy, Kotka-Hamina Regional Development Company assists in
locating, establishing and developing companies in the Kotka-Hamina
region. Cursor provides services for companies planning to locate to Kotka-Hamina region. Together with its partner networks Cursor assists in establishing and developing business operations, organising financing solutions, education and training. The Kotka-Hamina region also possesses top-ranking expertise in Russian business – Cursor Oy has more than 10 years of experience in export projects and consulting services. Cursor’s Russia specialists master the language, corporate culture, legislation and market trends. Additional information about Cursor can be founded here: http://www.cursor.fi/
Mr. Markku Merovuo, Director, for additional information, please, click here: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/markku-merovuo/3/141/945 Mr. Mikko Kähärä, Project Manager, for additional information, please, click here:http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mikko-k%C3%A4h%C3%A4r%C3%A4/1/b12/251 Mr. Toomas Lybeck, Program Manager, for additional information, please, click here: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/toomas-lybeck/14/b64/882  ProAgria ProAgria is the leading agricultural expert organisation in Finland, serving members as well as other rural entrepreneurs. Proagria has got a unique expertise in helping Finnish companies to enter the Russian market. Rural Advisory Centre of Kymenlaakso offers service solutions, which are tailored
to specific customer needs, providing a way to attain objectives and goals. ProAgria’s
objective is to help the customer to develop business profitability and
competitiveness sustainably. ProAgria professionals come with a wide range of
expertise, and offer a broad selection of individualized services.
ProAgria operates
as a partner of its clients and 70 % of our sales comes from the services to
our customers.
Development of leadership and competitiveness as
well as quality, quality of activities and environmental aspects are taken into
consideration in each service.
ProAgria can guide foodstuff companies producer willing to export to Russia through Kymenlaakso, meaning that are established in Kymenlaakso.
More information, please, visit: https://portal.mtt.fi/portal/page/portal/proagria_international Mrs. Tuula Repo works for Rural Advisory
Centre of Kymenlaakso as a Development Director. Clients are mainly
companies which produce foodstuff, small scale as well as bigger companies.
During the last years, Mrs. Tuula Repo had worked with companies all over in Finland concerning
Russian export.
Mrs. Tuula RepoI graduated from Helsinki University, M.Sc.of
Food Sciences: Economy, Marketing, Food technology and Chemistry, Dairy
technology, etc. Mrs. Tuula Repo guides companies concerning marketing research, investments,
financing, developing projects, marketing, legislation, environmental issues,
quality control systems etc.   Straightway Straightway is a logistics companies and ports marketing network of over 50 companies. Straightway covers services such as a) all transport services: road, rail, sea and air, b) warehousing, forwarding and value-added services and c) Advice about starting up a business and settling into the area. Straightway aim is to network customers in need of a reliable logistic partner. More information, please, visit: http://www.straightway.fi/ CENTOS Central Logistics CENTOS Central
Logistics is an international Logistics group operating all over the globe
by own offices and via world-covering network of our Partners. More information, please, visit: http://www.centosfinland.com/ Mr. Tommi Laaksonen is the Vice-Chairman of Straightway and the CEO of CENTOS.    EKAMI Etelä-Kymenlaakso Vocational College (Ekami) is multi-disciplinary education institution with over 6,000 students. The College organises vocational basic education and training for 2,380 students in Kotka and Hamina, on the south-eastern coast of Finland. Vocational adult education and apprenticeship training are both flexibly organised to meet the needs of the working life. The College has approx. 4,300 students participating in adult education and apprenticeship training, and 1,300 of them are engaged in studies leading to diploma. Ekami’s “Coastal Workshops” annually organise workshop activities for over 200 young people in Kotka, Hamina, Pyhtää, Miehikkälä, and Virolahti. More information, please, visit: http://www.ekami.fi/english Mr. Paavo Ahosola is Training Manager with speacil skills on Finance and Languages.   Helmivisio Oy Helmivisio develops and maintains an IP-based Wahti Surveillance System (WSS) for the need of SMEs and consumers. We provide this re-brandable solution to our partners to be sold as an add-on service. The service includes IP-cameras with remote recording and wireless sensors (motion, temperature, siren etc.) with SMS and email alarms. The service is easy to install by an end-customer and it can be used with a computer or a mobile phone. Helmivisio is the leading surveillance service provider to Finnish telecoms and we also have many partners in security field. More information, please, visit: http://www.helmivisio.fi Mr. Tuomas Muurikainen is a serial entrepreneur from
Kotka, Finland, and currently working at Helmivisio as a CEO and
founder. I have graduated as Master of Economic Science at Lappeenranta
University of Technology. He is very interested in working with
international business. More information, please, visit: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tuomasmuurikainen and/or www.facebook.com/tuomas.muurikainen
  Leet International Leet International engages in a variety of sports and other events, as well as related services, products and tools for the design, concept development, production and sales. Leet International's line of business is in addition to the franchise and in-licensing, event marketing, advertising and communications activities, as well as other forms of promotional activity and the associated design, training, marketing and consulting business. Leet International operates television and other media, software and content production industry, as well as sports and advertising sectors related to the company, as well as engage in these sectors of products and services for the production, consulting and other professional services. Leet International may purchase, sell, lease and hold real property, stocks, shares and other securities and intellectual property rights in and to invest. More information, please, visit: http://www.leet.fi/en/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1y2JMxDqRFU Mr. Keni Simola is the the CEO of Leet International. More information, please, visit: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/keni-simola/0/199/aba  
EdapCO Ltd, a Finnish company founded in 1995 and is specialized in ICT solutions for mobile and energy conservation. Mobile applications operating in almost all mobile phones (J2ME, Android, Windows Phone, Apple), covering global 80-90% of your potential customers. Solutions on adding sales, enhance customer feedback collection, strengthens your loyalty to your business and your customers your products, and increase the productivity. EdapCO has innovative solutions for tourists to increase consumption. More information, please, visit: http://www.edapco.net/ Mr. Tapani Ranta is the CEO of EdapCO. More information, please, visit:http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tapani-ranta/7/490/7a9   KIIC Kymenlaakso Internationalizations Initiatives Council, powered by cursor KIIC, powered by cursor is concept aiming to complement Internationalization Initiatives bridging concepts, regions, businesses and funding where Kymenlaakso has got a role to play. More information, please, visit: http://www.kymenlaaksoiicouncil.org/home Mr. MARCO Paulo ABRUNHOSA Cardoso is one of the council members of KIIC, powered by cursor. More information, please, visit: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcosuomi   PESCARADE Pescarade, Ldª is a Portuguese company which has got two large factory boats operating in the south hemisphere. The fish captured is among the following species: SWORDFISH Yorkshire Oxyrhynchus Prionace gray TUNA spp Espadins Istiophorus whitish LITTLE JAR dumerili Acanthocybium solandri Katsuwonus pelamis Mr. André Teixeira, the son, is on the board of the company. Mrs. Marta Apolónia is the lawyer of the company. RBV.ARQ Mr. Rui Bexiga Vale, the CEO, has more than 20 years of experience in a very wide array of projects, either as
Project Manager, Coordinator or Project Director, ranging from housing
to hotels, logistic parks to airports, urban masterplanning and health
centres, in multicultural and multinational contexts (Angola,
Mozambique, Namibia, Brazil, Peru and also in Portugal and Europe, by
means of his association with http://www.equator-europe.com/, with members
in Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Ireland and UK). More information, please, visit: http://www.rbvarq.com   NGNS-IS NGNS-IS, Ldª is a Portuguese with premium solutions related with FFF Forest Fire Fighting. More information, please, visit: http://www.ngns-is.com Mr. João Matos is the CEO of several companies including NGNS-IS. More information, please, visit: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-matos/1/73/441   JLM JLM, Consultores, SA is consulting firm that assist clients including in finance sourcing. More information, please, visit: http://www.jlm.pt Mr. Jaime Guerra is PhD and CEO of JLM. More information, please, visit: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jaime-guerra/29/76/ab1/en   Brightfloats Brightfloasts it is one of concepts that Mr. Vasco Monteiro is developing. This concept could be enriched in tourism terms if could be develop a framework of cooperation between Azores and Nordic/Russia. Mr. Vasco Monteiro is Mechanical Engineer with 53 years old.   |
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