Our story
The story of award-winning Valo began in 2015. Starting with a vision of creating better digital workplace experiences, we built an intranet solution that allows people to focus on the things that matter. Today we are a pioneering Digital Workplace product provider with a global partner network of influential SharePoint, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams professionals.
Our digital workplace product suite is built on SharePoint and deployed around the world by our Valo Partners. Our solutions have been awarded with the coveted Microsoft “Partner of the Year” honor, “Most Value-For-Money” award and “Best Intranet/Extranet” recognition multiple times. #ValoCheers to great achievements!
The company behind Valo, Blue Meteorite, was founded in 2001. From the get-go the focus was on Microsoft technology, like SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure. We employ 70 professionals around the world. Our North American operations are run by our subsidiary Valo Solutions and in APAC we operate through Valo Solutions Pty Ltd.
The word “valo” means “light” in Finnish language and that’s what we want to bring to workplaces everywhere. By getting rid of time-consuming and expensive intranet projects, you let the sunshine in. Say goodbye to the old-fashioned way of work and start collaborating on your new digital workplace!
250+
Partners
50+
Countries
700+
Customers
2.5M
Happy users
We have offices in
Europe, North America and APAC
If you happen to be somewhere nearby in Finland or Canada, come visit us at our office. We also have some excellent people working for example in Sweden, Belgium, Germany, UK and Poland.
Helsinki
Verkkosaarenkatu 5, 00580 Helsinki, Finland
Jyväskylä
Lutakonaukio 7, 40100 Jyväskylä, Finland
Cracow
Valo c/o Skelia, Bonarka4Business, building F Puszkarska 7K, 30-837 Cracow, Poland
Montreal
380 Saint-Antoine St W Office 7100, Montreal, H2Y 3X7, Canada
Melbourne
Valo Solutions c/o WeWork Level 22, 120 Spencer Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
Meet the team
We’re a bunch of tech and marketing geeks who share this idea of a better world, where working and communicating with each other is quick, easy and fun.
Business EMEA
Pekka Walkama
President
As the Founder and CEO of Blue Meteorite, the company behind Valo, Pekka considers himself as a Digital Business All-Round Player. His goal is to make our #CustomerExperience, #PartnerExperience & #WorkdayExperience best-in-class. All of that, plus Pekka is a family man, enjoys basketball, & is a large-scale consumer of movies.
Jari Pullinen
– in loving memory
Vice President 2015-2020
The father of Valo, a great visionary, a friend, colleague, and husband and dad for two boys. We keep building Jari’s dream together pursuing towards better digital workplaces. Jari will always be part of the beating Valo heart. Truly missed, but never forgotten. We #ValoLove you, forever.
Michael is working closely with Valo Partner Managers to provide partners and customers the best possible result by helping partners in sales and streamlining the Valo Partner network. While off work, Mike can be found exploring the world, hiking or cooking to his family.
Gokan is responsible for listening, building, maintaining, managing and sharing insights about Valo with current partners, customers and thousands of conference attendees You can find Gokan sharing the love across the world also as a Regional Director and MVP.
Johanna Riva
Events and Marketing Specialist
Johanna organizes awesome Valo events both live and virtually in the EMEA region, and helps our partners with marketing funding and co-marketing activities. Outside of Valo, Johanna enjoys CrossFit, weightlifting, books, memes and travelling.
Hanna is figuring out the secrets of MVP’s, Potential Partners and Customers and other Valo Friends creating content to social media, Valo Blog and our other platforms. After-hours she spends time with friends and exploring & creating content about cosmetics and beauty.
Alexandra enjoys creating clean and delightful experiences on both the web and the printing side that balance between business goals, user needs, and technical constraints. Alexandra likes to spend time with a camera, discover new places or watch Netflix.
Is this you?
The Valo Team is growing fast and we’re constantly looking for great people to join our international, agile and wonderful crew! If you think we’re a good match, check out our Careers!
Business APAC
Hanna is our newest addition to the APAC team, as a Marketing Specialist. Hanna takes care of all our marketing needs in the APAC region, whiling helping with our partners, and specializes in SEO & Google ads. Hanna enjoys staying extremely active through physical activity most of her week, while holding together her very own digital marketing agency in her hometown.
When Mark became Valo APAC’s technical partner manager, he had already clocked up many years helping customers design and build Office 365 and Azure based solutions. But in his spare time Mark also enjoys hosting community radio shows, plus he’s a real foodie and FYI, can debate fine wines like a pro!
Business North America
Ilija is a passionate visionary with a looong SharePoint experience. Trained, defined, planned, developed, deployed, supported and sold solutions for hundreds of customers globally to get most of existing investments. Ilia is interested in improving everything and deep discussions and having good time with the team, partners, and customers.
Olivera is responsible for building, maintaining and managing long-term relationships with current and prospective partners. Helping Partners and Valo succeed with her boundless enthusiasm. When not working, Olivera enjoys life with her kids, doing photography, scuba diving, horseback riding, learning how to play a guitar and drinking wine.
Melissa Perrotti
Marketing & HR Specialist
From Human Resources, to Marketing & Finance tasks, Melissa is our go to person in our NA team. Whether you’re an employee or Partner, she will make sure your question does not go unanswered! When not setting up the fort in our Montreal office, Melissa enjoys staying active and finding exciting places to visit!
Is this you?
As we continue to grow, we’re constantly looking for like-minded and fun-loving new talents to join our amazing team! If you think you’d fit in here, visit our Careers page!
Partner Support
For over 15 years, Victor has been a huge Microsoft fan and is almost always coding – like any other proper tech-geek! When he’s away from his computer and tapped into the real world, he enjoys playing old video games, studying new languages and spending time with his wife and kids. A true #ValoLatinLover!
Rohan is a SharePoint Developer since 2011. Apart from technology, Rohan studies history, politics, economics, world affairs and he just loves to have long discussions/debates around these topics. Also, he is a die-hard Liverpool supporter and his dream is to be at Anfield for a European Night someday.
Jouni has been developing SharePoint solutions since 2010. Usually have enjoyed adventure games among others on PC but now embarked on real-life adventure by moving to Australia for a year. In addition to video games, Jouni loves to run and throw puns to the mix.
A SharePoint newbie, but an enthusiastic one. Problem solving and helping others is a habit and so being on support team comes quite naturally. After working hours, I enjoy spending time with my kids and family. Trying to figure out how my legs should work while in Zumba and a wannabe photographer who likes to take long walks on the seashore and in the woods.
Is this you?
Are you into SharePoint and loove solving problems? Are customers your passion? If this is you, you might be exactly what we are looking for! We have several open positions for our Support team, go and check our Careers!
Human Resources
Jennifer Sonprasit
HR Coordinator
Kirsi Roche
HR Manager
Development Team
As a Production Manager, Päivi makes sure that the Product Development Team has all the things they need to share the #ValoLove with our Products! Päivi’s passions are the 3 C’s: Coffee, Cooking and Cava and she considers herself as a MasterChef of her own life.
Jarbas is an Office 365 enthusiast, lifelong learner. He is focusing his knowledge on the development of SharePoint Online and Office 365. He is a site provisioning specialist and has created provisioning solutions that are used by medium-sized to large businesses corporations.
Vardhaman is architecting and developing next-generation Valo products by leveraging the Office 365 and Microsoft Azure platforms. He likes to solve problems either by using code or by using the tools available. When he is not thinking about the Microsoft Cloud, he likes to travel to various places and explore the different foods and cultures.
Erwin goes back a long time with SharePoint and uses that knowledge to make the Valo product installation process shine! He is one of the few Microsoft Certified Masters in SharePoint and an Office Apps & Services MVP. Off work, Erwin loves spending his time in his studio filled with synthesizers.
Love new technologies and complex engineering challenges. Together with working in Valo team, Alexey helps the Sharepoint community by participating in a various open-source project. In his free time, Alexey listen to good rock music and practice endurance sports like IronMan triathlon and marathons.
Konrad is responsible for building new and maintaining existing features in Valo Teamwork. He likes good food and then burns the calories either by climbing, cycling, hiking or doing other activities. When at home, Konrad watch and read scientific materials to fill his head with dozens of interesting facts from various fields.
Przemyslaw Pierscinski
Software Developer
Przemyslaw keeps Valo shiny by maintaining and supporting Classic Valo Intranet. He is all about making technology work, and when hes not, Przemyslaw enjoys riding his motorcycle, traveling and camping.
Marcin Wojciechowski
Software Developer
Yannick Plenevaux
Software Developer
Yannick develops and architects features, improvements and technical solutions on Valo Modern Intranet! Yannick is also known as a Office Development MVP, and a great family person.
He has a passion in learning the latest and greatest technologies and spends a lot of time on blogging or contributing to open source projects.
Joonas Lähteinen
Mobile Developer
Joonas calls himself the “stereotypical nerd” – but, without glasses! Joonas is all about spending his Valo time developing the digital workplace for the mobile application.
Sirli Reapalu
Developer
As a Developer Trainee in our Valo Modern Team, Sirli is all about being the best at developing to achieve her goal in becoming a SharePoint developer. Sirli makes sure to spend time with her family and friends, and enjoys traveling. When she gets a moment to relax, she doesn’t mind knitting to her favorite show on Netflix!
Gautam Sheth
Software Designer
Jenni Rohunen
Web Designer
On maternity leave
Web Designer Padawan for Valo Modern who often finds herself making sure that all the pixels are aligned! A strong believer in simple designs and dedicated to top up Valo’s UI accessibility to the next level. On free time, occasional travel freak and a lover of natural light photography.
Sylwia Ciesielska
QA Specialist
Ilkka Kortelainen
QA Specialist
Is this you?
We’re growing fast and always looking for new, talented people to join the team. Check out our Career opportunities in our Tech Team!
Experts behind the scenes
SharePoint and Microsoft 365 specialists
We have hundreds of SharePoint and MS Office 365 specialists in our Valo Partner Network, sharing their insights and experience so that Valo is even better tomorrow.
Join our team
Interested in creating cutting-edge digital workplace solutions that people simply love? Write us a line or two and send it to wbof@inybvagenarg.pbz
Come say hi to us
We are always on the road! We sponsor a range of events around the world, from workshops to conferences. Come meet us and feel the #Valolove.
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If you have any questions or comments regarding our product, partnership or team, just send us a line to uryyb@inybvagenarg.pbz
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