About
Black Pine Ventures is a boutique consulting agency specialising in international expansion for tech ventures.
We are a strategic advisory collective, nimble and adjusted to your growing company’s needs. Going against the traditional consulting approach, we provide you with human-centered applied tools to steer you through all challenges successful digital businesses and marketplaces face when scaling. Clients - established startups and scale ups - come to us with a shared purpose, to grow their venture with success.
30+ years of collective experience from industry changing online platforms.
35+ markets successfully entered or scaled.
3 offices in Amsterdam, Stockholm and Paris.
Tamas Egei
Tamas has a proven track record of guiding startups and scaleups to achieve international success. As the former Head of Global Expansion at TicketSwap Tamas led a team of strategists and local business developers to successfully launch and grow markets across multiple regions including DACH, CEE, France, Italy, the Nordics, Brazil, and Australia.
In addition to his work at TicketSwap, Tamas founded a boutique recruitment firm dedicated to helping tech companies secure key hires for their international ventures. His expertise in building strong teams has been pivotal in the global expansion efforts of numerous companies.
Recently, Tamas has been also focusing on specializing in negotiation and conflict resolution, further enhancing his skill set to support businesses in navigating complex international landscapes.
Tamas holds a Master of Science degree in Persuasive Communication from the University of Amsterdam. He also earned diplomas in International Relations from Maastricht University and both in Negotiation and Mediation at Harvard Law School.
Joakim Klingspor
Joakim Klingspor has over 10 years experience with focus on corporate business strategy development and internationalization through sales and partnership strategy. Most recently, he joined TicketSwap, the European leading peer-to-peer marketplace for secondary ticketing. At TicketSwap Joakim worked as senior Business Developer managing the local sales and partner strategy for the Nordic region. When Joakim left the company, TicketSwap had achieved a number 1 market position in the Nordic region. Prior to TicketSwap he served as Managing Director for the Swiss marketplace MyCamper, where he managed the Nordic division of operations.
Prior working with internationalization Joakim held strategic leadership roles at MTG (Modern Times Group) where he worked with the group strategy focusing on internal cost synergy initiatives and specializing on data-driven decision models.
Joakim holds dual Bachelor’s degrees from Lund University, one in Finance and the other in Business Law with a focus on Corporate Law. Joakim is Managing Partner at Black Pine Ventures and is based out of Stockholm.
Judit Szloboda
Judit started her career at The Boston Consulting Group and in the past 10 years she worked at industry-changing tech platforms : Google, Airbnb and Etsy.
She was part of the localisation team at Google and after helped scale the world’s two most successful mission-driven marketplaces at the peak of their growth. At Airbnb, she was within the first 100 European hires and in 5 years helped build the business in Europe to be bigger than any other region. She worked on market entry and expansion strategies, built scalable sales and marketing teams and programs across the European region to ensure the sharing economy can exist and thrive. At Etsy, she led the supply-side of the French marketplace resulting in a growth from 54K to 171K sellers with 2x as many sellers making sales in 2021 as in 2019, when she started.
In the past year, she stepped away from larger organisations to use her marketplace scaling knowledge and proven track record to build successful global growth strategies and winning teams in hospitality and e-commerce. Judit holds Master degrees from Bocconi University and Copenhagen Business School. In her free time, she offers her expertise for UN projects.
Contact
Amsterdam
tamas@blackpineventures.com
+31 6 38 56 50 25
Vijzelstraat 68-78, 1017 HL Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Stockholm
joakim@blackpineventures.com
+46 70 549 56 97
Östermalmsgatan 26A, 114 26 Stockholm
Sweden
Paris
judit@blackpineventures.com
+33 7 86 60 91 83
7 Rue Meyerbeer, 75009 Paris
France