Intelligence Hunt Mentors

Ulla Keino has a variable career over 30 years in supply chain management and logistics, and her knowledge of global value chains covers all product types from lipsticks to car tyres, from Masters’ paintings to copy machines, from tractors to laptops. SeaFocus represents all that Ms Keino believes in. Dynamic group of entrepreneurs and partners, looking for win win – better maritime for the future to serve all parties in the value chain. She is the owner of SeaFocus and currently works as a Commercial Director of Ahlers Business Unit Trade Facilitation and After Sales Support. She is the Owner of SeaFocus. She is highly motivated to encourage young people and the business professionals to further studies. 

Frank Kho, an independent advisor active in the container logistic and terminal industry since 2018. He has more than 30 years’ experience in this industry across the globe. His career includes 20+ year in several senior management positions in Asia and Europe with PSA and HPH, 2 of the leading global terminal operators. Recently he has been appointed as the CEO of the new TIC 4.0 Association (Terminal Industry Committee 4.0), supported by FEPORT and PEMA, developing standards for the terminal industry. Mr Kho has an excellent track record in managing and leading several container terminals across the globe, including HIT in Hongkong and PSA Antwerp. He has a Master degree in Control Engineering/Avionics and is also an ICF-trained Professional Coach (certification is pending).

  Hannu Lumme is a freelance consultant and expert in sales. His special areas are maritime & land transports, intermodal logistics chains between Germany and other European countries. A language savant, he is fluent in German, Russian, English, Swedish and Finnish (native). Mr Lumme has worked since 1980 in the maritime and land transport sectors: in management positions at Rajahuolinta (forwarding company, specialized in Soviet Union and Eastern Europe), as Head of international cargo department at VR (Finnish State Railways) and as Senior Manager for Russian market and Railship, railway ferry services at Finncarriers, later Finnlines, since 1995. Since 2002 he worked at Finnlines Group as Head of Marketing & Sales Russia, and 

Owner´s commercial representative in Russia for Russian & EAEU market area. From Finnlines he retired 2021. 

Esko Mustamäki has a long and wide experience in shipbuilding and maritime industry. He worked as a Managing Director for Arctech Helsinki Shipyard 4/2011 - 12/2018. Arctech Helsinki Shipyard was founded in 2010 specialized in building icebreakers and other Arctic offshore and special vessels. Today he is the Member of the Board of Directors of the Helsinki Shipyard. Prior to joining Arctech Helsinki Shipyard he was employed by Wärtsilä Marine in 1980 and after that he has been employed by F-G Shipping Inc., Finnlines Plc, Finstaship and SET-Group Ltd.  Mustamäki graduated from Helsinki University of Technology in 1984 with MSc in Engineering and Shipbuilding and he has held several management level positions within the maritime sector. 

Markku Mylly has a long experience in the maritime sector since 1973. He was sailing in Finnish merchants ships until 1987, when he joined Finnish Maritime Administration. He worked in FMA until 2010 and he was the 10th and last Director General of FMA. In 2010 he moved to Finnish Port Association and worked there as a CEO until joined EMSA in 2012 September. He was the Executive Director of European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) in Lisbon, Portugal 2012-2018. Mr Mylly has collaborated a lot on the international level since he joined FMA and he was responsible for many EU Twinning projects during years 2002 – 2010 in Estonia, Croatia and Bulgaria. He also participated the work of IMO (International Maritime organisation) IALA (International Association of Lighthouse Authorities) and ESPO (European Seaports Organisation).

Dr Rolf Neise is currently working as a freelance consultant at HPMLOG Project & Management Consultants GmbH supporting multinational companies to optimise their supply chain management and logistics structures and as a lecturer at the International School of Management (ISM). He has just written a book for a well-known international publisher on integrating container logistics into the shippers’ supply chain. It is the first book on the market looking at container logistics from a shipper’s perspective. Prior to that Mr Neise was working as the Global Head of Logistics Operations at BAT (British American Tobacco plc.), in charge of defining BAT’s Logistics Strategy in the End-to-End Supply Chain. ​Mr Neise majored in economic engineering at the Technical University Berlin and wrote his doctoral thesis on transport logistics at the University of Stuttgart.

Mikael Simelius.​ Has over 30 years of extensive experience in branding, marketing and, sales, spanning from running businesses to leading global organisations. 

Currently, he focuses on helping and supporting start-ups, small and, medium-sized companies in functions like general management, marketing, branding, positioning and, sales, as well as board positions. Simelius works mainly through his own company Light Vision Ltd.

Prior to starting his own business, his working experience included Wärtsilä Oyj?, where he held several managerial positions, Stora Enso Oyj, Satama Interactive Oyj and AGO Ab. 

​He is a graduate of the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki, with an MSc in Economics. ​He believes in co-operation and co-creation, one day he hopes to leave this planet in better shape than it was when he arrived. 

Ulla Tapaninen, Associate Professor Maritime Transport, Adjunct Professor PhD, has over 25 years’ experience in logistics and maritime transport research and development work. She received her PhD  in 1997 in logistics modelling. She has worked for ten years as a  development manager and environmental manager in a large Finnish  roro-shipping company Finnlines Plc. Between 2006 – 2012 she worked as a professor of maritime logistics in the University of Turku specializing in maritime and port operations and their IT; and maritime safety. Thereafter she served as Senior Specialist and Head of Unit  for City of Helsinki in port and cross-border transport development projects.  She started as Associate Professor of Maritime Transport in Estonian Maritime Academy in Tallinn University of Technology in 2021, focusing on sustainable shipping.

 Poul Woodall has more than 40 years experience in the maritime world with a particular interest in climate and environmental issues.

He now has his own consulting company, but has worked for Denmark’s two largest shipping organisations, Maersk and DFDS, for over 45 years combined.

Educated as a Maersk management trainee, he has spent 17 years working aboard in Asia, Middle East and Europe. More recently he has been active on the shipping climate and environmental agenda working with, and for a number of interests organisations including Danish Shipping, UK Chamber of Shipping and Interferry. On the marine policy front, Mr Woodall has represented shipping interests at IMO and EU, latter through the ESSF network for a number of years.

He is frequently used as expert speaker at industry conferences and is co-author of the book “Sustainable Shipping -a cross disciplinary view” Springer 2019