Country Manager, General Manager, COO and director level.
| Industry Focus: | Management & Business, Sales & Sales Management, Marketing & Advertising | Title: | Country Manager, General Manager, COO and director level. | |
| Experience: | 15 – 20 Years | Position Type: | Full-Time | |
| Education Level: | 2-Year College Degree | Security Clearance: | Inactive Secret | |
| Relocation: | Any Location | Travel Preference: | Light Travel | |
PERSONAL DETAILS
Name: Jari Kalevi Jokela
Date of birth and place: 11.02.1965, Lahti
FAMILY Engaged, daughter Oona 16.10.1997
ARMY Prigade of Karjala, Vekaranjärvi Special training; MP
(military police) October 1984 - June 1985
EDUCATION
Car Sales Profession degree, GPA 4.2
Rastor Ltd
06/2004 – 08/2005
Vocational Qualification in Business and
Admininistration, 120 cu, GPA 3.9
Specializing in Business Economics, merkonomi
FINNISH BUSINESS COLLEGE
01/1999 – 12/2001
Studies for Vocational Qualifications in Metal Work
and Machinery (3 years)
Päijät- Häme Vocational School
08/1981 – 05/1984
WORK HISTORY:
C4 WorldWide Inc. , Associate
November 2008 – Present (3 years)
My work at C4 includes finding New Business Development projects and also investor- and funding resources and helping the process with connecting the right parties with due diligence and knowledge in the needs of different parties involved. All this is done in the proper manner and structure that in the end connects the unconnected and secures all the information needed in the process to make decisions and making things CLICK in positive way.
The company is headquartered in Southern California in the United States of America and it is currently represented in more than 55 countries. The services provided are developed and driven exclusively by the needs of clients, their culture and the political climate within their country.
Private/broker
March 2006 – Present (5 years 8 months)
Mixed use, hotels, resorts, casinos, shopping centers, office parks, private islands (luxury resorts), alternative energy (bio fuel, wind energy) etc. At the moment there are a lot of strong projects on the market. Only strong projects have a chance to get financed at the moment.
BUSINESS:
NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS: Business plan, what kind of investment opportunity, what is the business area, how mutch, what for, where, who are the parties involved, presentations, calculations etc. THE WHOLE PACKAGE after signing NDA (NCNDA), BP, Executive Summary - Lending Focus, Short project summary etc. LOI (Letter Of Interest) will be offered to project owner when (only when) the interest has been shown by the investor. Concerning fees they will be paid and there are no fees paid before the project receives a "GREEN LIGHT". This should be clear to parties receiving a fee (success fee).
Strong matters: owner/developer has to have minimum 10% of the capital needed tied in, land is owned (this can of course be part of the 10 % (free and clear)) and permits in place (meaning this is the real thing). In the case of wind farm projects there should PPA (power purschase agreement) and land owned or it could be leased.
- Contact manager (cars, B2B)
Delta Car South Ltd
12/2003 – 12/2005
My post of 2 years was for Delta Cars South Ltd as a contact manager and during that time I learned a lot about working with people but also about contacting companies decision makers (HR managers, CEO´s, CFO´s). My responsibility has been acquisition of new customers and selling Delta Cars services and products to companies. Some companies where I had meetings and I consider are good to mention are Valio Ltd, TDC Song, Componenta Ltd, Microsoft Finland, SAP Finland, AffectoGenimap, Teknos Ltd, Tekmanni Ltd, Huoneistokeskus Ltd, NCC International Ltd, G4S Security Services(Finland)Ltd, Metos Ltd Ab, ELTEL Networks Corporation, Aarikka Ltd, Insurance Company Tapiola, Teboil Ltd, Unilever Finland Ltd, Wihuri Ltd and Satama Interactive Ltd. All of these companies are big and many of them have business also outside Finland.
Salary was partly fixed around 40 % of my total monthly salary, including bonuses and provision from monthly sales. Bonuses came when I did 40 customer visits/meetings, 100 cold calls, average 30-40 offers and calls after offers, test drives between 20-25, delivey of cars 5-6 monthly. My sales in 2005 exceeded 1 million € (passenger cars, SUV´s and LCV´s (Light Commercial Vehicles).
- Sales Manager (IT, B2B)
PSS Trade Ltd Ltd/SmartIT Finland Ltd
05/2003 – 10/2003
Offer Smartit Finland Ltd services and webpages (internet based computer, software etc. shop) as a possible source for companies IT purchasing (acquisition of new customers). I had a one man office in Espoo, Finland (start up for SmartIT Finland (south). Head office in Seinäjoki (Finland (north)). Offer´s to big companies (G4S Security Services Ltd (hardware and services), Finland, Wihuri Ltd (hardware (lap top´s and desk top´s) etc. Job was temporary and lasted for 6 months.
- Sales Manager (IT, B2B)
Netello Systems Ltd
09/2002 – 11/2002
B2B- sales (acquisition of new customers), products: homepages,
housting-, and internet shops (e-business).
- Sales Manager (IT, B2B)
PCP Partner Ltd
09/2001 – 08/2002
B2B- sales (acquisition of new customers), products: Compaq, HP, IBM, Toshiba, Tektronix, Canon, Lexmark, 3COM, Cisco, Microsoft, Novell, Lotus, AGFA, Eizo, Hitachi, Logitech, Nokia, OKI, Panasonic, Philips, Powerware, Sony, Targus etc. Services financing (lease) etc. Salary was (100 %) provison.
- Sales Manager
Jippii Group
06/2001 – 08/2001
Selling and making offers from Jippii Group´s product and service portfolio to small companies. Products mobile telecommunications, housting, WLAN and broadband connection´s.
Worked earlier in restaurant business and telemarketing.
LANGUAGE SKILL
finnish mother tongue
swedish good
english excellent
COMPUTER SKILLS
- Operating systems: MS Windows 2000/XP
- Office- programs: Microsoft Office 2000/XP and ASP- software
- Scala- operational system, Saleshawk- salesprogram, MBS (Major Blue Systems) CRM
- E-mail programs: Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes
- also good knowledge about broadband- and wireless- technologies
- excellent knowledge of hardware
COMPETITION SUCCESS (SPORTS) TaeKwonDo:
National championships:
-1984, -85 and -86 bronze
HWANG´S CUP:
-1986 and -87 bronze
Häme area championships:
- 1985 bronze, 1986 gold and 1986 gold and silver
HOBBIES
Jogging, reading, business, digital
REFERENCES
When asked for
Best Regards,
Jari Jokela,
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jokelajari
