Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play of safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Sir Cecil Beaton.
Career History:
Public speaking:April 2005 - ... : Co-Founder, Nagi, a social community and user-generated content company initially for the Estonian market (to be launched in May 2006).
January 2005 - ... : CEO and Founder, Customix, a management consulting company with a goal to help Estonian startup and seed phase technology companies make it big on world markets.
October 2004 - December 2005: Member of the Board, Director of Sales and Marketing of MicroLink.
April 2002 - December 2005: Director of Marketing and Communications of MicroLink, the leading IT and new media group in the Baltic States providing integrated services and solutions in the fields of IT, data communications, Internet and new media. The group employs around 640 people in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. MicroLink achieved consolidated sales of EUR 63 million in financial year 2000/2001. Until 2003 MicroLink also owned Delfi (www.delfi.ee) portal sites in all Baltic Countries, being the leading Internet properties in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In 2004 MicroLink exited SAF Tehnika, an internationally known telecommunications equipment (microwave radio links) manufacturer, via an IPO on HEX Riga.
January-February 2002: Director of Sales & Marketing of IT Meedia - a struggling software development company who's main product at that time included Amphora, an open-source server application software for groupware, document and project management, CRM etc. Almost immediately we decided together with the VC's that there is no sense to invest more money into the company and it is better to close it down.
From August 1999: Member of the Supervisory Board, CV-Online / CVO Holdings BV.
August 1999 - December 2001: VP International & Business Development, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, CV-Online / CVO Group. During that time helped the company to reach the position of the leading integrated professional recruitment service and career portal in Central and Eastern Europe, active now with around 100 employees in 6 countries. The service portfolio of CVO Group includes e-recruitment under brandname CV-Online, traditional search and selection under brandname Professional People, and recruitment software technologies under brandname CVO Technologies. Helped the company to successfully raise close to 4 million EUR in venture capital financing from prominent investors like Esther Dyson, LHV Ventures and 3TS Venture Partners.
1996: Co-Founder, CV-Online / CVO Group, an intergated recruitment services company all over Central and Eastern Europe.
November 1994 - July 1999: Co-Founder, Chairman and Managing Director, AS Stallion Ltd. An Estonian web development, Internet marketing and data security consultancy and value-added reseller, serving mostly large and medium size private and government organisations in the Baltic region.
Started professional career in 1994 in the field of Internet & web service development and Internet marketing, starting the first commercial website in Estonia already back in summer 1994. From then on active in many commercial web-based projects and developments in Estonia.
During last couple years the speaking and panel engagements have included various topics like Internet and e-business development in Central and Eastern Europe, modern HR technologies, online recruitment, general business management and many other themes at respected seminars, conferences and events all over Europe.Educational Background:Among others these have included:
For more information about possible presentation topics or panel participations at your next event, please contact Jüri Kaljundi at jk@kaljundi.com
- The Economist Conferences: HR management in Central and Eastern Europe 2001 (Vienna, Austria)
- The International Herald Tribune: IHT Summit on HR 2000 (Budapest, Hungary)
- Tornado-Insider Conference 2001 (Paris, France)
- EDVenture Holdings: Clicks and Borders 2000 (Barcelona, Spain)
- Baltic Sea Region e-Business Forum 2001 (Riga, Latvia)
- Baltic IT&T Forum 2001 (Riga, Latvia)
- Baltrade 2000 (Riga, Latvia)
- First Tuesday events and seminars (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia)
- Human Resources Management Conference 2001 (Riga, Latvia)
- Estonian Annual HR Conference 2001, 2003 (Tartu, Estonia)
- Estonian Sales Management Conference 2003 (Pärnu, Estonia)
- various other business, HR, IT, sales and marketing related events
Studied at Tallinn Technical University a mixed BSc curriculum of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Tele- and Data Communications. During studies held also the position of the President of the Student Government and Chairman of the Student Parliament.Date of Birth:
July 8th, 1974 (Tallinn, Estonia)Contact:
E-mail Jüri Kaljundi: jk@kaljundi.com
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