MEET THE TEAM
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Nicola Vähätalo
CS SPECIALIST, CS PROCESS LEADER
Traveling, languages and civil airline industry enthusiast
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Nicola started with the Economics and Management studies and later found out that customer service is his natural element! Nicola loves to help travelers enjoy their trips and assist colleagues. Nicola is also interested in the civil airline industry - airports, airlines, and airliners. He likes to visit the airports for some plane spotting and collect airplanes models. Also, when Nicola sees the mountain - he not only will reach the peak but also will go down by snowboard. Nicola also has a gene of polyglot - fluent in Spanish and English, with the Italian mother language, he can also assist you in French and Finnish. Moreover, Nicola is eclectic and considers it as his superpower.
Mikko Kämäräinen
CS specialist
A Hollywood movies lover and powerlifter
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Working in Timetravels Mikko feels like traveling all over the world every day, even while sitting in the office! That is the life of a customer service specialist. Every day Mikko's minds are traveling through all destinations, so even sometimes Mikko feels like an atlas. Mikko found out his passion for tourism in the university - he has studied International tourism and business, later worked in the tourism field. During his time after work, Mikko enjoys watching movies and reading books as much as exercising weight-lifting. Mikko also has his superpower - a library of Hollywood movie quotes!
Hien Nguyen
CS specialist
A Finnish winter lover and master of Taekwondo
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As in customer service position, Hien's main goal is to fulfill people's traveling-dreams with her personal cheerful and positive style. However, when the day is over Hien is becoming a master of Taekwondo! Secretly dreaming about sushi in Japan, Hien is creating plans to travel all over the world. Nevertheless, Hien loves Finnish culture, and nature, thus it is her final country to be. Also, Hien adores white, and cold winters, so she already feels a bit like a Finn.
DESTINATION MANAGEMENT
Maria Kruglova
Destination manager, Russia
Adventurer and nature-lover
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×Maria -or “nasha Masha from Russia” has been in charge for our St Petersburg operations almost from the very beginning. Thanks to her superior problem solving and negotiation skills all our guests can feel safe in the country, where unexpected things often happen. When not in the office, Maria can be found at her “dacha” in countryside Karelia searching for mushrooms, translating in cinema festival in Kamchatka, guiding a group along the Silk Road or hiking in some place tropical.
Janne Toivonen
Destination manager, Saariselkä
An extrovert, natural-born Finn, excited about entertaining people
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×Uuno is a natural-born Finn, who enjoys entertaining and encouraging people to appreciate the moment and try new things out of their comfort zone. Uuno loves his job, he can stay half a year in Lapland, and later travel to exotic destinations. For Uuno, the most exciting part of his job is meeting various multicultural people from all over the world. Uuno has also created his Signature Program: Uuno Radio - a fun mix of storytelling, crazy facts about Finland, singing, and dancing. If there are extrovert Finns, Uuno is one of those rarities.
Tuomas Pellinen
Destination manager, Levi & Ylläs
A successful stress-less person a.k.a Richard Branson
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×Tuomas is Timetravels' Richard Branson who will end up being a life coach. Tuomas' main life principles are quite simple - keep the stress less, go with the flow and laugh a lot. Simple as that, but for him, it works perfectly. Tuomas is our team member for a long time. Being a part of a team brought to him not only new challenges but also a love of his life - a beautiful girl to guide Lapland trips and future mother of his three children. Currently, they are raising three wonderful daughters and switching their lives between the family farm in the South's of Finland to adventurous winters in Lapland.
Victor Kozharin
Destination manager, Kilpisjärvi & Lofoten
A master of MASTERPLANS
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×When we start to talk about Victor, everyone knows that we are talking about the master of MASTERPLANS. Considering that there is no life before and after the Timetravels, Victor is fully dedicated to his job - even in his free time, he creates MASTERPLANS. As his hobby and passion are to create MASTERPLANS, his superpower is to bring it to life. Maybe now it is time to ask, what are those MASTERPLANS? MASTERPLANS are Victor's grand plans for anything that must work - he creates MASTERPLANS for perfectly going trips, MASTERPLANS for solving chaotic situations, MASTERPLANS for getting things right, and MASTERPLANS for making the Timetravelers super happy.
Darius Domarkas
Destination manager, Inari & Vasatokka
An adventurous motorcyclist
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×Even though Darius has a background of electronic engineering, the engineer's genes are quelled by his strong leadership skills. While still studying in university, Darius discovered his special talent in leading and organizing tours. As he is a self-driven person, Darius was not afraid to leave the engineering field and follow his passion. Nowadays, Darius enjoys helping people, arranging things, and creating long-lasting memories for travellers. Darius has a warm and affable personality, which makes him a perfect guide for our adventurers. Besides, Darius strives to balance his free time, one day he can spend with the PlayStation controller in his hands, and next day travel around the islands of Greece with the motorcycle. Darius also loves to discover various cuisines, so all his journeys are seasoned with local delicacies.
Bettina Jansson
Destination manager, Swedish Lapland
A master of memorizing and a skilled cakes lover
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×Bettina, our wilderness guide, before roaming around the Lapland, studied the culinary arts, business management, and marketing. Bettina is also a lover of outdoor activities - from hiking till kayaking, she likes nature adventures. On the flip side, she is a homebody - she prefers reading, movies (secret passion to Indiana Jones), knitting, and cuddling with her dog. She is interested in human behavior and psychology. Besides, her superpower is to remember names and dates; also to bake wonderful cakes (and eat them).
SALES & ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
Maija Koljonen
Key account manager
A talented singer and piano player
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×Maija enjoys the diversity in her job - even though she spends a lot of time on her computer, she also participates in many interesting meetings and events. Before Timetravels, Maija studied marketing, communication, tourism management, and linguistics. In her free time, she does not just spend her time singing in a shower - she is truly talented in music! Once a week she goes to the choir, and enjoys singing and playing the piano! Maija feels passionate about learning new things (often by traveling), seeing new places, meeting people from different cultures. She always studying something f.e. she has studied seven different languages so far. Moreover, Maija's superpower is her calmness and patience.
Erika Jankevičiūtė
Key account manager
An open-minded charismatic perfectionist
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×Five years of volunteering in student organizations gave Erika a lot of skills - flexibility, fast and logical thinking are her keywords! Also, her tendency to be precise and insistence a perfection add some more charisma. The most characteristic thing about Erika is her open-minded thinking - she is friendly and open with everyone. If you meet her eye to eye, and you will learn a lot! During the free time, Erika loves to travel into unknown places and dive into the deep open waters. Every winter she is trying to reach the highest point of the mountain and go down by skis.
Jaakko Mäkimattila
Key account manager
A joyful and positive athlete and team player
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×Jaakko is a sports lover who knows student unions like the back of his hand. Thanks to his ice-hockey background, he brings a lot of teamwork and positive attitude to the office. He is responsible mainly for student union co-operation and keeps good contact with them and the destinations. On his free time Jaakko likes to is travel, play ice-hockey or do some other sports. Jaakko has a personal touch in everything he does, and he never has a bad day. He is creative in finding a win-win solution even in the toughest situations.
Rabea Radix
Sales team manager
A historical novels reader and the master of time management
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×Rabea always feels passionate about her work and is dedicated to her team. Before joining the Timetravels she studied German language and culture, later she gained experience in communication and sociology studies. The main Rabea hobby is to read historical novels. Also, Rabea is proud of her valuable and important superpower - time management!
SALES TEAM - INCOMING MARKET, TAILOR MADE TOURS
TRAVEL COORDINATORS
Darja Frolova
Travel coordinator (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine)
An active lifestyle lover and rock climber
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×Darja is driven about her job in the tourism sector. She loves to make people happy and always seeking new, challenging experiences. She tried it all - was a charismatic guide in Russia, a
master business communicator, and a perfect dealer for various arrangements in Lapland. Her strongest sides perfectly match with her job position - finding new destinations, establishing new relationships with
diverse people. She can climb any mountain in personal and professional life because of her extreme hobby - rock climbing. Darja likes being outdoors and having an active lifestyle, so always a dynamic tourism
sector is the perfect place for her!
Karmen Talur
Travel coordinator (Sweden, Denmark, Norway)
A challenging volleyball player and a travel addict
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×Fortunate people follow their hearts and make amazing moves in their lives. Just as Karmen did. She started her career in tourism by working with “sharks in the Asian market”, but
decided follow her heart and found herself working with students! The ability to arrange things and enthusiasm for discovering interesting places makes Karmen a real Time Traveler. Besides, one more Karmen's
passion is sports. Volleyball is the big thing in Karmen's life for already 15 years (and counting more) - would you be brave enough to handle her serve?
OFFICE MANAGEMENT
Viltė Petkevičiūtė
Kaunas office manager
A multi-talented, warm-hearted Lithuanian
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×Viltė loves to challenge herself going out of her comfort zone by learning new things, facing her fears and even by climbing the mountains. This warm-hearted Lithuanian girl is super multi-talented and has been taking care of several tasks during her Timetravels career. Viltė expressed herself being a back-office manager, destination manager, and even a guide. Her new goal is to challenge herself in the Human Resources field.
Maria Hajainen
Helsinki office manager
A powerful self-believer, expressing herself in arts
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×Maria is not afraid to face challenges and take various opportunities in her life. She is a self-driven person and has a special superpower - a self-belief. Therefore, the dynamic and always changing tourism industry for her is never boring. During her free time, she loves to read, also express herself in arts - sculpting and drawing. Anyway, despite all these activities, the priority of her free time is good, deep sleep.
IT AND MARKETING
Evelina Kurtinaityte
Marketing manager
A super-powerful master of marketing
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×Shortly about Evelina - she travels all over the world, makes people smile and shares the happiness. She loves to capture amazing places and moments. Most importantly, she makes Timetravels brand great again! Evelina loves her work - after communication studies, she decided that her passion is to work with marketing in various aspects. Besides all other Evelina's experiences - a few years of volunteering in the Erasmus Student Network helps her understand the main needs of our partners and customers. Also, Evelina is a tough woman - 3 years in the military made a huge impact on time and stress management, planning, strategizing and respect. Evelina is an explorer and winter sports lovers - in summertime hiking in exotic places and in wintertime especially downhill skiing.
Viktor Serbin
Video & photographer
Geopolitics lover with the keen eye in photography
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×Victor roams around our destinations with his beloved camera and drone. A former news photographer in Ukraine, Victor, nowadays is capturing the happiest moments of our travellers. Besides his passion for photography, he also is interested in the 18th-20th-century geopolitics and social psychology. In his free time, he studies what forms the modern society of these days. Victor believes that his superpower is to make his dreams a reality.
HR
Kaisa Koljonen
HR partner
An expert of the Russian language and culture
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×Kaisa is the co-founder of Timetravels. Kaisa familiarized herself with Russia while studying the Russian language and culture. During her studies, she was able to see Russia, its people, and culture from a different perspective. The experience and knowledge she gained about this country gave her an idea to develop it as an attractive destination for future Time travelers. Kaisa is a proponent of logical thinking and practical approaches - she catches the ideas delivered by our team and brings them to life.
Kirsi Harimo
HR specialist
A mindful volleyball player with the secret of delicious brownies
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×Before joining our team, Kirsi accumulated her experience while working in the tourism industry. Currently, she enjoys always challenging and interesting days with Timetravels. One of the main Kirsi's hobbies is volleyball and beach volleyball. After the intensive volleyball exercises, she loves to calm herself with a good book in her hands or with the gardening activities! For Kirsi, digging the soil is far better mindfulness meditation than any guided training ever. Kirsi knows the best how to bring structure in the middle of mayhem and... how to bake yummy brownies, too. Besides, Kirsi has a secret passion for salty liquorice.
FINANCE
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Teemu Kyllönen
CEO
A hands-on type and result-oriented leader
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×Teemu is like a "solid rock" of our company, and the whole team can count on him. Teemu is rational and realistic but also is supportive and motivating because of his warm and caring personality. His extensive range of experience in the education system, student organizations, start-up businesses have grown him to be a result-oriented and hands-on type of leader who gets things done and keeps the company thriving.
Mikko Koistinen
Co-founder, chairman of the board
Father of Timetravels, a wild nature lover with the right amount of SISU
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×Born in the wild, Mikko is carrying the connection to nature with an important mission for the next generations. Mikko believes that cherishing the beauty around us, stopping for a moment and enjoying the sounds of the forest, discovering, and learning about our nature makes us more tolerant and creative. Mikko's life ideology and vision, passion for impossible challenges and dreaming big let him towards founding Aikamatkat/Timetravels. It all required a crazy amount of intuition, passion, knowledge, and SISU - actually in the beginning there was more sisu than knowledge or intelligence.
