Hellon
Jaakko Wäänänen is the Founder and Group CEO of Hellon, a strategic design agency Jaakko founded in 2009. Jaakko is also the Vice Chairman of the NEXT Committee at Perheyritystenliitto Ry and a Partner at Fregatti Oy Yrityspalvelut, a family business offering corporate event services in Finland. With experience in event planning, management, and producing, Jaakko has also founded Plusstudio, a design accelerator, and served as Chairman at Renewal, providing future management services for global companies. Jaakko's education includes a degree in Marketing, Corporate Law, and Management from Aalto University and a Skipper certification from Åbo Navigationsinstitut.
Hellon
We are an innovation consultancy enabling new horizons and creating real value. DEFINE | BUILD | SCALE & TRANSFORM Since 2009, Hellon has been at the heart of driving global change and reaching new horizons by empowering clients to make better decisions for a better world, influencing global innovation, and harnessing the human creative spirit. Through careful research, AI-powered insights, and the collected expertise of a truly global team, Hellon excels at illuminating new ways for its clients to succeed in the future, create new categories, and enable their clients to reach new horizons through change. Our team of 100 professionals in Design, Strategy, and Technology have been helping our clients in +1000 successful projects in over 20 countries for leading brands and industry giants like Vodafone, Unicef, Yara, OP Bank, PepsiCo, and Hyundai. Today, after winning several SDN Global Service Design Awards and Fast Company Innovation By Design Awards, we are one of the world’s most-awarded innovation consultancies, driving change, impact, and true value. LONDON | HELSINKI | OULU www.hellon.com