Kari Virta

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About Kari Virta

Top Skills: Strategy, Business Transformation, Leadership, P&L management, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) My Profile: I have passion for high performance with focus on leadership. To achieve ambition targets you need right people and strong leadership. I have a long experience in B2B and B2C service business in several responsible roles and I have created wide knowledge of leadership. I have strong experience of M&A, on both side of the table. I have been accelerating growth and making turnarounds. I have been leading a change from production-oriented organisation to service performance organisation with high customer centricity. I understand how to support customer's core business with services and how motivate people to deliver great service performance. I have learned the importance of customer segmentation; how important it is to understand customer’s core business to be able to support their purpose with outsourced services. Equal important is to have purpose for employees. They need to understand why they do things before they can efficiently deliver service performance. Leadership is the number one when building up purpose. Years in service business has taught me how everything starts from leadership. You need to put right people in right positions, develop them and lead with empowerment. My long CEO experience supplemented with positions of trust gives a good background for working on the boards. Seeing and experiencing the service business from different perspectives has made it possible to support the operational management.