3. Who I am
• Born 1976 in Sipoo, BBA
• Working history from 1998…
DW and Sales - Backoffice support
eLearning - Developer
eLearning and business process consulting
– Co-founder
Digital recommendation marketing – Co-founder
Digital Customer Marketing – Co-founder
Marketing and communication
– Marketing Strategy Director
Digital Transformation – Partner/Country Lead
Translation partner - CEO
• Important for me..
• Sport (basketball, tennis, gym, slalom)
• Classic cars
• Family (Ansuliina 8 years, Aaron 12 years, Kaisa X years)
7. Vision 2020
Transfluent is a 24/7 localisation partner that offers
the most advanced tools and the most active
customer contacts on the market to translators,
and
the best automated localisation experience to
customers.
10. Industry
• LSP market size is $53B globally
• LSP market size in Finland €170M
• 1,300 companies in Finland
• The major players in Finland are
• AAC Global €16M (108 $ Globally)
• Semantix €15M ($113 Globally)
• Lingsoft €14M
• Average taxable profit 7–9%, mature survey
respondents put EBITDA within 11–15%
Source: Konstantin Dranch 2017 & Nimdzi 2019
17. Customers
Focus on serving the existing customers (Tier1 & Tier2 customers) and
growing the value of unique orders
TOP600 companies in Finland The goal is to get 100 active customer organisations
• 350 discussions done via phone
• 54 meetings done (15%)
• Closed Won 20 new customer organisations (6% / 37%)
• Measurable and integrated marketing and sales process
18. Marketing
• New CMO/COO starting 1.8.2019
Focus on Customer and Translator Experience and marketing automation
• Co-operation with Tulos Helsinki starting 1.8.2019
SEO, SEM, SoMe, Earned Media
19. Technology
• CAT tool in use Q3/2019
• Totally automated process for payments to translators
• 60% automated invoicing prosess
• New pricing methodology (AI in use)
• TOP50 translators VIP club (AI in use)
Totally automated engine from marketing to sales to pricing to order to translate
to feedback to re-order
20. Emloyees
• Oy: 10 full time and 1 part-time (2018: 14 full time and 1 part-time)
• Inc: 1 full time (2018: 3 full time, including Jani Penttinen)
• 1 January–26 June 2019 Annual
Turnover rate is 9.5% (1 person has left)
• New CMO/COO starting on 1 August 2019
• The strategy was completed together with the employees!
21. Contacting
- Contactingselected companies and mapping
their current status
- Agree the meeting
- Try to get in touch with the purchase price as
soon as possible
M&A process
Market Evaluation +
validation
Which companies we should focus
Light DD
- Ensure the content of info request
* loans
* sales pipeline
Info request
- Currentstatus and future plans
Acquisition
- Earnout
- SHA/working agreement
After 2 years
- Evaluate the results
First 100 day plan
- Implement the First 100 day plan
Day zero
What happens day zero?
- Existingcustomers
- Employees
- Owners
- Office
?
22. Contacting
- Contactingselected companies and mapping
their current status
- Agree the meeting
- Try to get in touch with the purchase price as
soon as possible
M&A process
Market Evaluation +
validation
Which companies we should focus
Light DD
- Ensure the content of info request
* loans
* sales pipeline
Acquisition
- Earnout
- SHA/working agreement
After 2 years
- Evaluate the results
First 100 day plan
- Implement the First 100 day plan
Day zero
What happens day zero?
- Existingcustomers
- Employees
- Owners
- Office
?
23. Summary: Top themes 2019
• CAT-tool development Better quality in daily operations
• Re-negotiate the compensation agreements with translators Better profit
• Marketing and Sales activation Positive Cash-flow