Our Transatlantic Heritage
As far as our research extends, we are the only boutique management consultancy practice with a world-wide reach that has its roots on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. This has allowed us to uniquely differentiate ourselves over the past two decades. We are proud of our transatlantic heritage! For that, I stand humble for our founder, clientele and colleagues.
Managing Partner, Jari H. Helenius, HKH Management Consulting
Our Transatlantic Roots
HKH Management Consulting Ltd. was founded in 1996 in Stamford, CT, USA by Heikki K. Helenius. At the end of the decade, the company moved its headquarters to Helsinki, Finland. Mr. Helenius served as the company’s owner and CEO until 2011. He had a career that spanned more than 30 years in various senior and executive roles focusing on FMCG and publishing industries in a global environment.
Before founding HKH Management Consulting, Heikki K. Helenius worked at a major global companies such as Unilever and Reader’s Digest, as well as at International Masters Publishers. At Reader’s Digest he led over $1.5BN DTC operations in Europe and at International Masters Publishers over $700MM turnover in the United States and Canada. He was actively involved in organizations promoting Nordic businesses in North America. He was a board member of the Finnish-American Chamber of Commerce, New York chapter and a trustee for the American-Scandinavian Foundation.
Relocation to Europe
After relocating back to his home country in late 1999, Heikki K. Helenius continued developing his management consultancy practice further acting as a “bridge” for businesses between North America and Europe. Over the span of the next decade HKH Management Consulting served many major global and regional clients across industries. The clientele has included such companies as WPP plc, Reader’s Digest Inc., IMP, Guideposts, Posti Group Oyj (the Finnish postal service), Omniva (formerly known as Eesti Post, Estonian postal service), and Alma Media Oyj (a Finnish media and digital service business). As well as public institutions such as European Investment Bank.
Heikki K. Helenius passed away on August 15th 2011 at the age of 68 after battling just over three years with grade four brain tumor. He was survived by his wife and two adult children.
Transition years
In 2012, after spending nearly a decade working for a Swedish-based global DTC company at various senior and executive positions, Jari H. Helenius returned to HKH Management Consulting as a Senior Principal Consultant, the company he started his career in as an Analyst.
Building on the transatlantic heritage of the business and by developing its research, know-how and insight capabilities combined with forming strategic alliances on a global scale, allowing it to better serve clients world-wide, Jari H. Helenius started to take HKH Management Consulting more firmly towards a full service boutique consultancy with dedicated practice areas having agile teams to serve its clientele.
Today and onwards
Today HKH Management Consulting serves its clients through 15 different “virtual offices” around globe. It has partnered up with number of other boutique consultancy practices and formed a network of agencies – Global Consultancy Partners (GCP) – as well as developed an extensive global grid of affiliate partners across functional expertise areas capable of providing additional resources on a case-by-case basis.
Together with GCP and the affiliate partners, HKH Management Consulting is able to provide wide-array of professional services, with agile and accessible approach, to address business critical needs of its clientele. It offers services through four closely linked practice areas; 1) Marketing, Communications and Sales practice area, 2) Business Design Development & Innovations practice area, 3) Strategic Planning & Business Transformation practice area, and 4) Corporate & Business Financial Planning (CBFP) and M&A practice area.
A recent statement by our Managing Partner, Jari H. Helenius, sums up how our legacy is relevant for our positioning on the global consultancy practice map today.
“Today, as far as our research extends, we are the only boutique management consultancy practice with a world-wide reach that has its roots on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. This has allowed us to uniquely differentiate ourselves over the past two decades. We are proud of our transatlantic heritage! For that, I stand humble for our founder, clientele and colleagues.”