kimito - outreach with an impact

Kimito was founded by Pia Långström in 2007 with the vision to create outreach with an impact. Ms Långström is an experienced business graduate with a Master of Science in Business & Economics from the University of Uppsala and a candidate in Environmental Management & Policy from Lund's University, Sweden. Ms Långström has more than 15 years of intensive, broad ranging experience from international marketing management in the ICT & Telecom industry. Partly, the experience was gained during the Irish IT boom of the 90's and also through international work with Ericsson where Ms Långström specialized in strategic end-to-end portfolio marketing, strategic PR and industry analyst relations in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.

Throughout her career, Ms Långström has acquired extensive experience in start-up situations and foreign market entry during her time in Gateway, Viking Components, Ericsson and lately through Kimito.

Pia is a curious soul and thrives on meeting people from different cultures. She enjoys exploring, started primary school in Zambia, went to Canada as an exchange student, studied engineering briefly in Turku and through Nordplus at Hanken school of economics in Helsinki, Finland, acquired some programming skills along the way, studied journalism at Poppius and still trying to master French. Recently, Pia has embarked on the journey to realize her passion for the environment, renewable energy and sustainable development.