Ville-Valtteri Helenius was born in Kokkola, Finland, to a father who worked in forestry (and taught at the local college) and a mother who was a housewife and nurse. His mother was a Christian who taught Helenius and his brother “to be honest, straightforward and to stand up for the right thing.” With his mother and father in education and healthcare, they strived to instill in their children good values, and to “do good stuff in the world.”
In 1985, Helenius’ father was invited to work in Africa, and his family moved to Kenya where his father developed programs in forestry. Helenius lived in Africa from 1985 until 1994, finishing his A levels (high school) there. Helenius went to Oxford to study, the first student at Oxford from Botswana, and the first Finnish student to attend since 1263. He pursued a degree in engineering, and transferred to University College London (UCl), graduating with a Master’s degree in Electronics in 2001. While at UCI, Helenius created the first student FM radio station.
“Engineering is about solving problems, and in banking you have to solve problems,” so Helenius took an offer from Deutsche Bank in order to stay in London. He started in the IT department doing coding, and then was placed in program management. In 2005 Helenius was offered a position at Bank of America as a project program manager in risk management. Helenius started working on his MBA from Columbia University and London Business School. He graduated in 2008 and found...
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