Pärtel is the CEO and co-founder of Future Place Leadership, a leading Nordic management consultancy specialising in the development, innovation and marketing of places. What are the strategies, processes and services needed to become more attractive to talents, investments? How to lead change in a city? These are the issues Pärtel and the company have dealt with in the Nordics and in in Europe (Scottish Enterprise, Spain, Italy, Germany and others).

He is a public speaker and workshops leader, from regional investment promotion workshops to start-up conferences to top level EU conferences.

Pärtel is a part of the jury at City Nation Place, the annual place branding and marketing conference in London. He holds a Master’s degree in Management, focusing on Nordic brand management, from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He speaks English, Finnish, Swedish,Estonian and reads Danish and Norwegian.