He has a bachelor’s degree in production/manufacturing engineering and a master’s degree in energy technology as well as an executive MBA. He started his professional career in corporates and has also other corporate background, giving a thorough understanding of the corporate potential and shortcomings. Essential for Mika is to make an impact with innovation, that means to build collaborations between corporates and startups, and enable how to change common practices and mindsets.

Mika’s has through his various ventures built up an own playbook for successful scaleups. In his opinion every startup should attempt and push for the scaleup to test out the real potential of the solution. The most important asset in any venture is people. It is not money – it’s your team that is building the company. Mika sees his game plan to build company machines, that means teamwork: with every activity providing value and feeding information to the others.  It requires an extreme hands-on mentality, a very capable team, with everyone dedicated to the big goal.

Think of counter-pressing tactics in football, it has a lot of similarities. Building teams diversity play an important role – as it also is a business opportunity. With the right team, you can develop and pivot finding the right solutions that are providing value, build brand recognition and attract the funding required – this is his approach that he names the Black Diamond Scaleup Strategy.

Mika is a recognized innovator and business leader, with several international awards. He is also a best-selling author (Wall Street Journal and USA Today) through the business anthology “Habits of Success: What Top Entrepreneurs Routinely Do in Business and in Life”.

Together with his team they have a vision to make industries safer and better that is helping to save our planet.