Sampo Parkkinen is the CEO and Founder of Revieve, a personalized digital brand experience company working with global brands, retailers, and digital services providers in the beauty, skin, health, and wellness categories. Sampo has a long record of successfully guiding and scaling companies, serving as an early-stage investor, venture partner, and board member in technology companies including SportIQ, PromoRepublic and others. Prior to devoting his work full-time focus to Revieve, Sampo was a founder and COO at RapidBlue Solutions, a Finland-based shopper analytics company providing brick-and-mortar visitor analytics to retail and commercial property ShopperTrak successfully acquired.
Today, as a serial technology entrepreneur, investor, author, and Contributor at Forbes, Sampo leverages his extensive experience working with digital solutions and technologies to enable brand experience for brands and retailers across the skin, health wellness, and beauty categories. Sampo is also a frequent guest speaker at retail and beauty technology events and conferences. He is often seen on different media channels and the leading trade media magazines across the globe, including The Telegraph, Business Of Fashion, Coveteur, Vogue Scandinavia, Glossy and more.
He takes pride in giving back to the community and serves as a mentor for the Techstars accelerator program in Chicago and a venture capital firm focused on growing companies that generate positive outcomes in education, health, economic empowerment, and environmental sustainability.
Sampo is a lifelong learner and a proud dad. In his free time, Sampo enjoys playing sports and spending time with his wife and three children.