Pietro Karjalainen

Over those years, he has worked in sales & marketing, sales channel development, manufacturing and outsourcing.

When based in Europe, Pietro worked with Arrow Electronics, reaching the position of International Sales and Project Management, where he handled non-franchised product sourcing and was responsible for worldwide excess inventory disposal. He then founded and operated Tinacomp, based in Paris and specialising in trading electronic components. Pietro moved then to Finpro, the Finnish trade association, where he was Senior Consultant, then Country Manager and Trade Commissioner to Vietnam from 2009 to 2013.

In 2014 Pietro established FinnSEA in Ho Chi Minh City where he specialises in market entry and manufacturing for the electronics industry as well as for the mechanical engineering, wood and garment sectors.

Pietro speaks his native Finnish and is fluent also in English, French, Spanish and Swedish. He gained his eMBA from Tampere University of Applied Sciences and Tallinn polytechnic University and has lived Finland, France, Belgium and Vietnam. He is a board member of the Nordic Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam.