About me
Member of Finnish Kennel Club Board
Chairman of Show and Judges Committee (Finland)
Member of Finnish Kennel Club Council
Member of Finnish Winner Show committee
Member of the FCI Grooming Commission
Member of The Royal Kennel Club (UK)
President of one of the biggest breed clubs in Finland: Finnish Toy Dog Club. The Finnish Toy Dog Club is responsible for a vast variety of Toy breeds from FCI group 9 (Toy and Companion dogs) and Pomeranian, Kleinspitz, Yorkshire Terrier, Affenpinscher, and Schipperke.
Examinator Judge for breeds from five different FCI groups, especially from groups 5 and 9.
Was born into a family with Samoyeds and Huskies. I started dog shows in the 1980 ́s with an uncle who was a dogshow judge. My first own dog was a Cocker Spaniel, then Welsh Springers and American Cockers came to my life. I lived in a city and was not able to have several dogs at home, so I started to show other peoples’ dogs from all groups. I won my first all-breed BIS in 1988 with Tibetan Spaniel and 1989 with Norwich Terrier owned by late Hans Lehtinen and Johan Juslin. Until I started my judge’s education, I was a successful handler for all breeds.
I have owned or bred English Cocker Spaniel, Welsh Springer Spaniel, American Cocker Spaniel, Siberian Husky, Pomeranian, Bichon Frise, Löwchen, Papillon, Chinese Crested, and Maltese. Pomeranian is the breed I am most well-known for, I have owned or co-bred well over 100 Champions in the breed, including 10 different World or European Winners. One of the highlights was winning Reserve BIS at Dortmund European show 1992.
Judged in
Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Monaco, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Croatia, Russia, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Israel, Turkey, South Africa, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Japan, Mongolia, Philippines, South-Korea, Thailand and Vietnam.
CC appointments for 26 breeds in UK.
Important appointments
BIS Philippine Circuit at Crufts Qualification show 2025
BIS Bundessieger Dortmund 2024
BIS Vilnius show 2024
BIS German Winner show Dortmund 2023
BIS Danish Winner show Herning 2022
BIS Istanbul Crufts qualification 2023
BIS Poznan (Poland) 2023
BIS Brno (Czech) 2024
BIS at Group 5 World Specialty, Leipzig 2017
Westminster Kennel Club 2025
Windsor Toy Group 2025
+ all breed BIS at shows in Italy, France, Belo-Russia, Lithuania, Estonia, Norway, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Thailand, Vietnam, Turkey, South Korea, Mongolia, South Africa, Australia
World Shows Helsinki 2014, Geneve 2023, Zagreb 2024, Helsinki 2025, European Shows Budapest 2021, Herning 2023
Champion of Champions shows in Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Norway
