Atte Miettinen is popular public speaker, successful businessman and adventurer based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). In June 2012, Atte joined just 100 people globally who’ve undisputedly reached the summits of the highest mountains of every continent, known as the Seven Summits. Atte is also an accomplished businessman having spent 15 years in senior management roles building technology/telecoms start-up’s into recognized leaders in their respected categories. The last five companies he’s been involved with have raised a combined US$500m in funding, created hundreds of jobs, done business across more than 50 developed and emerging markets and created hundreds of millions of USD’s in value for the shareholders. The latest company he was involved with was acquired by Facebook in June 2014. Today, Atte combines his unique mix of first-hand expertise and experience in building successful businesses across developed and emerging markets with learnings from taking on significant personal challenges in some of the most hostile environments on the planet. Atte uses his amazing stories and engaging storytelling style to deliver dozens of keynote presentations, speeches, seminars and workshops annually at companies, universities and schools worldwide to energise, educate and entertain audiences of various sizes, ages and cultural backgrounds as well as help companies address various business challenges using mountaineering themes. Example clients include ABN-Amro, Accenture, Capgemini, Daman, Danone, Dimension Data, Dubizzle, F-Secure, HP, London Business School, McKinsey & Co., Visa and Wrigley.