Stefano Grace
Senior Associate
Advokaadibüroo Sorainen
AmCham President 2009-2010, AmCham Vice President and Board Director 2008, Executive Committee Member.

Doctor juris Stefano Grace is a Senior Associate from the United States who joined the Tallinn office of Sorainen in 2006. Stefano holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Florida State University College of Law. Prior to joining Sorainen, he worked in the financial sector working in the legal department of the Tallinn Stock Exchange during the summers of 2004 and 2005 and worked for four years for Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson, a leading intellectual property law firm in the United States. He also completed a four-month legal externship at the White House in Washington, D.C. Stefano is admitted to the New York Bar Association and is a member of the American Bar Association.

Olivier Rochefort
General Manager, Radisson Blu Hotel Tallinn
AmCham Vice-President 2010, Executive Committee Member

Olivier has been many years with American leading global hotel company Carlson Hotels Worldwide, headquarted in Minneapolis, USA. He has held various positions with the group in the United States, Canada, Russia, Ireland and China prior to moving to Estonia in February 2009. Olivier brings to AmCham a broad range of international experience from his professional background, but also from serving previously as director on the Boards of other overseas chambers of commerce/business associations. He studied at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, and the Université de Toulouse II, France, graduating in Business Administration and Hotel Management.
Olivier’s ambitions for AmCham Estonia is to consult and elaborate with Estonian businesses and government entities a push for the development and engineering of arguments, products, services and facilities that are necessary to ensure the growth and sustainability of business and leisure travel as one of the most important employer and contributor to the economy.



Aivar Kangust
A.Kangust & Partnerid OÜ
AmCham Treasurer and Board Director 2009-2010, Executive Committee Member

Education:
Estonian Business School (Executive MBA), 1993
Tallinn Technical University (BA in Accounting), 1981
Career:
A.Kangust & Partnerid OÜ, 2002 - current, Founding Shareholder and Member of the Board, PricewaterhouseCoopers Estonia, 1993-2002 Engagement Leader, Chairman of the Supervisory Board 1999-2002.

Professional Experience:
Aivar has extensive experience in providing auditing, tax and business consultancy services, and due diligence services both to multinational and domestic companies in Estonia.
While working at A.Kangust & Partnerid and PricewaterhouseCoopers, Aivar has audited companies in various fields, including but not limited to the Estonian Central Bank, Fortum, merger between Estonian two largest banks - Hoiupank and Hansapank, the Estonian Stock Exchange and Elisa, a telecom company etc.
Aivar has written numerous articles, mainly on audit and financial management topics.

Professional activities:
Estonian Licensed Auditor from 1993, Member of Estonian Auditing Board
Leader of training Committee at Estonian Auditing Board
Member of Raamatupidajate kogu
Founding member of Masters Club

Ilvi Jõe-Cannon
AmCham Board Director 2009-2010, AmCham Board Director 2008, Social Responsibility Committee Chairwoman

Individual Member 

A member of AmCham for the past 10 years and currently the Chairperson of AmCham’s Social Responsibility Committee on which she has served for several years. She was elected to the Board of Directors at the last General Meeting and worked on the revisions and amendments to the bylaws.

She holds a MA in Government from Indiana University (Russian and East European Institute), in Bloomington, Indiana and a BA in History from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.
Before moving to Estonia in 1997 to volunteer in the development of a civil society, she worked in education, operated a small business, and held public office. In Estonia, she has been active in non-governmental organizations. She is a charter member of Tallinn International Rotary Club, serving as its President 2007-2008, and a Paul Harris Fellow. At the Estonian Women’s Studies and Resource Centre she is a member of the Board. She is one of the editors - and a translator – of the book “Carrying Linda’s Stones. An Anthology of Estonian Women’s Life Stories”, which was published by Tallinn University Press in 2006 and a reprint appeared in 2007.

Aivo Tuul
Swedbank AS
Financial Analyst
AmCham Board Director 2009-2010

Aivo was born in Tartu, South of Estonia. After finishing high school (Nõo Science School) he studied 3 years theology in Tartu University and after that taxation and finance in Tallinn School of Economics. During his studies he gained working experience from social work and banking sector (worked as youth worker, administrator, assistant, project manager). He has been actively related to various non-governmental organizations, in 2004 and 2005 was a Member of the Board in the Youth Centre “KOHT” in Tartu. Today he is working with well-known bank - Swedbank AS. His hobbies are hiking, cycling, history and different cultures.
He would like to find new opportunities, be eagerly involved with different activities of AmCham and bring to the Chamber new ideas and encouragement as well.

Erki Kert
Lõhmus, Haavel & Viisemann AS
Member of management board / Head of Corporate Finance
AmCham Board Director 2009-2010

Prior to joining LHV, Erki Kert graduated from the University of Tartu in finance and economics.During the years spent in LHV, he has built up an equity research department covering Baltic markets and is now managing the entire analyst team. Starting 2007, Erki is a member of LHV’s management board, responsible for corporate finance services in the Baltics. 

Peter A. Woolsey
Individual Member
AmCham Board Director 2009-2010

Peter Woolsey first came to Estonia in 1996 as a member of a European Commission advisory team evaluating EU accession countries.  He incorporated a software firm EBSA AS, Euro Baltic Software Alliance, in 1997 and EBSA OY in Finland in 2000. He has mentored SME firms in Estonia and recently assisted CellTells win first prize in the first, Enterprise Estonia ‘Brain Hunt’, competition.

This September, EBSA UK Ltd enabled Now Innovations to successfully install their mobile payment system for Reading Borough Council in the UK. Last December, together with Mart Laar, Peter presented Estonia’s E-and M-government systems in Chile, South America.

Peter studied Economics at Manchester University in the UK. He has an MBA from INSEAD. He also received a Rotary International Foundation Fellowship and studied at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Graduate School. He is a charter member of the Tallinn International Rotary Club and is the INSEAD representative in Estonia: he has been resident in Estonia since 2000. Peter’s hobby is water skiing, even on the Baltic Sea.  He would like to see Amcham assist Estonian firms export to North America, especially the USA and to outsource to US firms in Western Europe.