MALTA VISIT BY HEAD OF FINPRO IN MILAN

Date: 17th June, 2011

The Head of Finland Trade Centre in Milan (FINPRO) Marjaana Karjalainen will be visiting in Malta between 21 and 22 June 2011 and will be hosted by Scandinavian Business Forum Malta.

Dr Mark Fenech, Chairman of Scandinavian Business Forum Malta, said that during her brief visit Ms Karjalainen is expected meet with officials from the IT Ministry, Malta Enterprise, Finance Malta, Malta Communications Authority and other organizations from the local media/telecom sector.

Apart from running FINPRO in Italy, Ms Karjalainen is responsible for developing new co-operation opportunities in the telecom/media/software business for Finnish companies and will be travelling to Malta with a view to understand better the local market trends and potential partnering opportunities between Maltese and Finnish companies. She is also currently working on client interface with Finnish software, telecom and digital media companies interested in the Western European and Northern African markets.

FINPRO is currently represented in more than 40 countries around the world.