The team at VESA Digital LLC
Joonas Harimaa
Business Development
Joonas Harimaa is an investor and an entrepreneur with a decade of experience. He has launched 13 businesses, many of which produce residual income. For the past two years, Joonas has been a full-time crypto and NFT investor.
Joonas has educated and trained thousands of entrepreneurs and leaders to reach their fullest potential. These high-achieving, high-performing entrepreneurs have benefitted from Joonas’ training, and increased their sales in the process. He will be an active partner with VESA, bringing his expertise in business building and development.
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Alejandro Obando
Digital Marketing Specialist
Alejandro is an experienced project manager in the e-commerce and crypto/NFT space. Having a communications degree from Florida International University, he understands the art of resonance, and what attracts different audiences.
Alejandro earned his bachelor’s in public relations and advertising and will bring this knowledge to VESA by leading public relations, community management, social media, partnerships as well as investor relations.
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Lotta Kivinen
Copywriter / Assistant Producer
A writer, an Assistant Producer, a dreamer, a wife- Lotta has worn many hats during the long apprenticeship and life partnership with Vesa. Lotta has always been artistically inclined, first pursuing novel writing at 14. She has been a copywriter and content producer since 2013 in the fitness and gaming industries, before turning her attention to crypto in 2018.
Currently she relishes utilizing her creative and organizational skills at VESA Digital, creating content, working on branding and nurturing partnerships and client relations. She contributes to VESA articles published on News BTC and is a familiar face at Web3 events in Dubai and elsewhere.
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Qvantvm
Web3 Audio Visionary
A visionary artist, entrepreneur and advisor with 18 years of experience in music, art, gaming, XR, and entertainment. His work has been featured on Netflix Originals, Microsoft's Xbox, Red Bull, The Oprah Daily, iTunes Top-100, Blockchain Economy Expo, IGN, Rarible, MAD Metaverse, VESA, World of Web3, Burj Khalifa Park, and many more.
An active partner in the VESA journey, soundtracking together NFTs and Metaverses.
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Juha “The Goose” Hanhinen
Motion Graphics
Juha has a twenty-year career in motion graphics and film and has worked with Vesa on various projects since 2006. Together they have executed many successful NFTs, such as the ‘Bitcoin Elite’ for the Bad Crypto Podcast and the Blue Wizard commission.
In film, Juha has been involved in nationwide documentaries, music videos for top artists, and promotional films. He is also a beloved character in the Helsinki punk & rock scene.
Some of his notable clients and partners include Kone, The Nordic Business Forum, Alexandria Bank, Visit Estonia, and Sports Academy.
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Daniel Marote
Brand Relations & Artist Collaborations
Daniel Marote is one of the leading voices on customer experience in Europe. He is an international keynote speaker, expert, and consultant, with a deep understanding of user experience and behaviour, the creation of differential value propositions and storytelling strategies as well as branded content.
He is an executive MBA and Professor at IE Business School, and his Spanish marketing program ‘Un Café con Dani Marote’ is a thought-leader in the space. He has written a successful book on digital marketing, ‘OrganicSM’ and has worked with top level companies such as WWF, Canon, Starbucks, San Miquel, Ballantines and Iberia among others.
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Anita Kalergis aka KryptoGranny
Ambassador
Anita is an actual Granny for two princesses. Anita is a seasoned business development and market-making professional with nearly 20 years of experience from all over Europe and the Middle East. She is a multilingual expert on building professional networks and has an unbeatable track record in opening new markets for businesses.
She has been involved in the Blockchain and crypto scene since 2016. Today she is the Ambassador for Helsinki Blockchain Center as well as for the AIBC Summit. She is also the "Granny Ambassador" for VESA and a public speaker and moderator and her positively bubbling mission in the business arena is to onboard people in the technological and financial revolution.
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Pekka Kelkka aka Papa Blockchain
Crypto, tech & NFT advisor
Pekka, or Papa Blockchain, is a seasoned business development professional with an impressive 25-year career in global markets. He established his first internet company in 1994 that provided solutions and services to major players such as IBM, HP, Oracle, Netscape, Nokia, McDonald’s, as well as several telecom operators and Government entities.
For the past 12 years Pekka has lived and worked in the Middle East and has become an expert in combining blockchain business consultancy and digital marketing from planning to execution. He is a passionate keynote speaker and a sough-after advisor for Blockchain projects, currently working with projects such as Kimberlite Token, SugarKingdom, Script.tv, Metaverse7 and Bitlevex.com.
Elias Ahonen
Metaverse Lawyer
Elias Ahonen is a Finnish Canadian blockchain author and legal researcher based in Dubai. He is described as one of the first Bitcoin historians for his 2016 book, ‘Physical Bitcoins and Crypto-Currencies’.
He became involved in Bitcoin in 2012 and has since collected crypto memorabilia and launched his consulting company Token Valley in 2017. He is a regular contributor to Cointelegraph and his newest book, ‘Blockland’ from 2021 is recognized as an industry textbook following his comprehensive academic merit of MA in International & Comparative Law that explores the legal questions around metaverses and NFTs.
Elias will bring this knowledge to team VESA, focusing especially on the functionality of the six different metaverse gallery experiences that will be launched towards the end of 2022.
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Lorenzo Rosettani
CEO of Art In Space
Lorenzo Rosettani is an Italian visionary entrepreneur, CEO of HCOMM and ART IN SPACE, and a spin-off of HSIGN, an Italian interior design and architecture company for 40 years.
HCOMM has patented WORLD OF SENSATIONS, an immersive multisensory technology resulting from 12 years of research and development on the interaction of people and their living spaces.
ART IN SPACE is the world's first five senses immersive gallery open in downtown Dubai, an immersive digital art revolution.
After the meeting in Dubai with Vesa in 2021, a collaboration was born that led to the experimentation and realisation of multisensory art and travel in time and in metaverse space and above all in art. He also advises VESA Digital on the commercial physical & digital bridges via the innovation.
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VESA
Founder // Art Director
VESA is an award winning digital art pioneer for 14 years. He innovated his own mixed media process in 2008, and has been full-time in the crypto art and NFT space since 2017. He is considered to be a leading early artist building the metaverse and NFT expansion, being among the first to enter in the earliest stages. In 2013, his digital art project with actress Veena Malik reached around 300M people, with critical acclaim (references).
The latest venture artcar.io, is seen around events in Dubai. VESA is an advisor to Sheesha Finance, Jade City, Metahistory: Museum of War & Oceans & US. He also builds with leading metaverse companies like Zoan, Blockchain Valley Virtual, Landrocker, Megaverse and Superworld, VESA is also an ambassador for the International Blockchain Association. Crypto Oasis included him in the Ecosystem report among the top 10 artists in the UAE region, and L’Officiel awarded him the top Web3 artist award.
His art has been collected by hedge funds, exchanges, CEO's and influencers. Among them are Charles Hoskinson, Charlie Lee, Dr Marwan Al Zarouni, Mondoir, Saeed Al Darmaki, Tone Vays, Whale Shark, Coach K, Willy Woo, and many others.
Tomas Zapletal Cermak
Founding Gallerist at Cermak Eisenkraft Gallery
The founder of the leading gallery of Czech Republic, Cermak Eisenkraft, Tomáš Zapletal have been tirelessly working to cultivate the Czech & international art market. In his career, he has sold over a 100M USD worth of art, and cultivates a relationship network through a long standing career in art of the highest order.
He represents VESA as an artist via the gallery and is building various projects relating to metaverse and NFTs together with him to enter the market in a reputable and appropriate way.
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Visa Viren
Financial Advisor
Visa is a serial entrepreneur, investor, mentor and business developer with 10+ years of experience ranging throughout the business lifecycle. Through his career Visa has been involved in business transactions worth over $200M as an advisor, co-owner and investor.
Visa will provide VESA with his extensive experience in developing a thriving business. Lately his point of focus has been on co-developing transformational platforms for human experience design. When Visa is offline, he is immersed in myriad of ways of moving in nature.