Mr. Vesa Jormakka
SENIOR PARTNER

Mr. Jormakka has been heading Argo Global Capital´s operations in Europe since 2000. Prior to joining Argo Global Capital, Mr. Jormakka was a Partner and one of the founding members of Mustang Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Siemens AG Information & Communication Group now part of Siemens Venture Capital. During that time Mustang Ventures grew to have a portfolio of investments worth in excess of US $2 billion focusing on mobile, broadband and access networking technologies in North America, Europe and Israel. Prior to 1998, Mr. Jormakka was in charge of the global M&A and partnering activities of the Networking Systems business unit for Siemens AG in Munich. From 1988 to 1997, he held various engineering, sales and general management positions for Siemens in Germany, the UK and Finland in the data networking, defense electronics and mobile communications divisions. Mr. Jormakka's experience also includes responsibilities relating to the implementation and introduction of the first GSM network in Europe giving him a broad technical and operational background in wireless technologies. Mr. Jormakka's investments with Argo include companies such as Cambridge Positioning Systems, 12snap, Empower Interactive, Volubill, I-play and SurfKitchen to name a few. Mr. Jormakka holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology in Finland.

Mr. Jormakka has left Argo and is currently raising Argopolo Capital Partners, a global fund focused on telecoms convergence, in agreement with Argo Global Capital.

Located in London