Janne Salminen
Cofounder @Sift (formerly ShopInbox ) . 15 years of mobile SW & Apps. Investor in 10+ start ups including @Beepi, @Human Longevity @BetterCompany, @Service, @Transcriptic
Cofounder @Sift (formerly ShopInbox ) . 15 years of mobile SW & Apps. Investor in 10+ start ups including @Beepi, @Human Longevity @BetterCompany, @Service, @Transcriptic
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Experience
Global Head of Strategy and BD, Apps & Developers
Director, Head of Products, Entertainment SGA
Global Head of Strategy/Media and Games/Dec08-Mar10
Head of Location Based Services and Advertising,Americas/Jun07-Dec08
Global Head of Product Planning, SW Platforms/Jun05-... more Jun07
Senior Manager, Head of Next Gen Gaming (NGI)/ Mar04-Jun05
Manager, Strategy & BD, Entertainment & Media/Dec02- Mar04
Business Analyst, Corporate Strategy & BD/May99- Dec02
Head of Location Based Services and Advertising,Americas/Jun07-Dec08
Global Head of Product Planning, SW Platforms/Jun05-... more Jun07
Senior Manager, Head of Next Gen Gaming (NGI)/ Mar04-Jun05
Manager, Strategy & BD, Entertainment & Media/Dec02- Mar04
Business Analyst, Corporate Strategy & BD/May99- Dec02
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Achievements
1999 - At age 20, youngest managerial employee at Nokia
2001- MSc in Economics at age 22. Completed 5 1/2 year masters program in 4 years while working full time at the same time
2004- Personally initiated and led development of gaming api/platform and E2E consumer experience that introduced rich mobile gaming in nokia mobile phones
2005- Global head of product planning for Nokia's SW platforms/OS. Installed base grew from 15M to 100M+ users
2007- moved to New York to head Location based services business. Launched Nokia Maps in Americas
2009- Was nominated Global head of strategy for content services and member of management team. Defined a strategy to merge all content services into one -Nokia App Store launch
2010- Led a product incubation team that incubated Nokia's 1st tablet concepts and service offerings
2012- Moved to silicon valley to Head Strategy and BD for Nokia/Microsoft Developer ecosystem, app store & 1st party app dev activities
2015- CoFounded ShopInbox
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