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Director. Regional Legal Lead for the Nordics, ASG and NL from June 2012 - local counsels reporting to me. Ealier, since 2011, regionald legal lead, and since 2007, legal counsel for the Nordics. Intellectual Property Lead for EALA and a member of IP task force globally reporting in IP matters to the Global Commercial and IP Lead. Also Global Legal Lead for Mobility Service Line and Communication industry field. Avanade is operating on very cutting edge of IT consulting - application development, integration, migration, cloud, application maintenance, mobility - and after being exposed and contributing to most advanced IT projects in the leading IT consultancy in this field of technology in the world, working with a state of art understanding of legal aspects of this business. A strong and active member in legal team, and a practical, business oriented, technology savvy lawyer with a huge appetite for learning. I have been a member of the IP Expert Board of Confederation of Finnish Industries EK for some time - and from the beginning of year 2011, vise chairman of the Board. Background covers now roles as in-house lawyer, practicing law at law office and academy. Graduated from University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law in December 2000. Completed Master of Law (LLM) degree from UC Berkeley, Boalt Hall in May 2004 as ASLA Fulbright Scholar. After graduating, worked as IP consult in the US for a short period of time in the US assisting e.g. TEKES in negotiations with CITRIS program of University of California. After returning back to Finland, worked at Borenius & Kemppinen for two years in Technology and IP group taking part strongly in development of Intellectual Property Asset Management services. Specialties:IT & technology Law and Contracting, Intellectual Property, IP strategies and analysis, Contract Law, International business law, contract risk management