About
Petri is a writer, entrepreneur, strategy consultant, business executive, and author to name a few titles. He has been exploring and experiencing different ways of living and expanding his understanding. Peter (as he is often called) has travelled extensively and so far lived in Finland, UK, France, and Spain. His influence and network cover all walks of life across the globe.
Petri extends his interests to many areas and sides of life. His book, Fragments of Reality, talks about life from a personal perspective covering areas ranging from self-realization, meditation, stress, happiness, death, and everyday living. Readers have found Petri’s writings encouraging and touching the deepest and most fundamental issues of life, combining them with practical insight and wisdom.
In the business arena Petri has founded companies, mainly in the high tech field. He has been active in the banking & finance, software, new media, wireless, telecom, semiconductors, and optical manufacturing sectors to name a few. He has held various positions from strategic analyst, alliance manager, vice president of marketing, business development director, to CEO, chairman, and the janitor. Petri has worked intensively with start-up companies advising and helping them in their various stages of growth and internationalisation. He has been involved with from the very beginning of an idea to the later stages of hundreds of employees with international operations, and everything between. Petri has raised VC rounds to his ventures and for others in some of the least competitive markets and the roughest of times.
Fast cars and motorcycles, cigars, lavish parties, bars and nightclubs are something Petri has enjoyed in the past. Art galleries, museums, architecture, photography, and design are something he explores together with different musical styles from jazz, pop, classical to musicals, ballet, and opera. Today he prefers aesthetic pleasures of life ranging from high quality chocolates, fine waters, all the way to walks in the nature preferably in sunny sandy beaches. Currently Petri owns no motor vehicles, uses public transportation and car pools, follows a vegan diet and enjoys every moment as it comes.