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Tommi Kinnunen

Services Engagement Director · Genesys · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region (FR)

Tommi Kinnunen

Services Engagement Director · Genesys · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region (FR)

Career arc

Tommi Kinnunen is an international tech business leader with over 20 years of experience in digital and data-driven business. Currently, he serves as a Services Engagement Director at Genesys, focusing on cloud customer experience and contact center solutions. His career has spanned management consulting, VC-backed tech startups, and NASDAQ technology companies, with a strong emphasis on business development, performance improvement, and customer success across various digital industries.

Defining traits

Restructuring and performance improvement specialist who drives operational excellence end-to-end across organizations—from PE-backed turnarounds to scale-up optimizationDeep focus on customer success as both strategic outcome and operational discipline, leading international CS and professional services teams to improve satisfaction metricsSolves complex business problems through strategy creation paired with hands-on data analysis and number crunching—not just high-level thinkingFluent across company lifecycle stages: VC-backed startups, high-growth scale-ups, PE restructurings, and public tech companies—adapts playbook to contextBroad technical surface area spanning cloud CX platforms, streaming, SaaS, ecommerce, mobile, digital marketing—understands how digital services interconnectInternational leadership experience managing distributed teams across geographies with emphasis on change management and people coaching

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Why: Strong operational transformer with deep customer operations and M&A integration expertise. AI-enabled operating models align with digital infrastructure. Less explicit PE/VC stage fluency than Tommi.

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Builds and scales operations that deliver commercially and operationally across borders. Senior operations and professional services leader driving growth across multi-market B2B SaaS and digital organizations in EMEA.

Why: Strong international operations and professional services leader with B2B SaaS focus. EMEA multi-market expertise. Less PE/turnaround and hands-on data strategy emphasis than Tommi.

Latest activity

Newest first. Dates are publisher estimates and may be approximate.

Gergely Kovács

2026-08-13

LinkedIn · Gergely Kovacs

Tommi Kinnunen

2026-08-06

LinkedIn · Tommi Kinnunen

Gergely Kovács

2026-07-08

LinkedIn · Gergely Kovacs

Tommi Kinnunen

2026-07-04

LinkedIn · Tommi Kinnunen

Tommi Kinnunen

2026-07-01

LinkedIn · Tommi Kinnunen

Gergely Kovács

2026-06-26

LinkedIn · Gergely Kovacs

LinkedIn · Tommi Kinnunen

Kovács Gergely

2026-03-09

LinkedIn · Gergely Kovacs

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