ÄND, bringing together women entrepreneurs The Delegation for Fierce Women

Supporting You, Supporting Us.

A leadership-focused group of active and enterprising women from Estonia who have joined forces to expand their activities and promote businesses.

20women across fields and generations

The board

The women who lead ÄND.

  • Malle PostBoardFounder

    Malle Post

    Business and finance

    Professional training in accounting

    Malle has almost 40 years of experience as a chief accountant in various large companies such as Shell Eesti, Swissotel, Stora Enso Eesti and Puumerkki AS, Azets.

    She has been a member of the European Accounting Association since 2010. In 1996, she founded the Estonian Association of Accountants.

    Malle has two sons and is a dedicated grandmother to her grandchildren. Her hobbies are zumba-dance and traveling.

  • Kertu LäätsBoard

    Kertu Lääts

    Economics and business

    University of Tartu

    Kertu values freshness of spirit in people and orientation to continuous development. Topics close to her heart are economic accounting as a language of numbers and a management tool, sustainability of companies, analysis of financial data and its use today. As a lecturer at the University of Tartu, she comes across these topics on a daily basis. By nature, she is a curious explorer of the world and a lover of nature.

    You can meet her every week either on the tennis court or soccer field.

  • Carmen RootsBoard

    Carmen Roots

    Economics and politics

    University of Sussex

    Carmen studied economics and politics at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. She is passionate about international relations, different cultures and exploring the world, aspiring to become a global citizen. She was born and raised in Estonia, educated in Switzerland with a high school exchange year in the United States. With her work experience in retail, her goal is to be a self-made entrepreneur. She likes fashion, sports, traveling and making new connections.

    Her belief: one precious life, endless opportunities, so go out and claim them.

The members

From finance to face yoga, from hotels to violins. Founders and members, side by side.

  • Marget HaugFounder

    Marget Haug

    Marketing, teacher

    After 20 years as a project manager in advertising agencies and as a marketing manager in a women's magazine, she founded her own marketing company, offering the services of a marketing manager to other enterprises.

    Driven by her mission, Marget also works as an Estonian language and literature teacher.

    Marget is a proud mother to her adult children, a daughter and a son. Her hobbies are books, gardening and traveling.

  • Kadri-Helena RõõmusFounder

    Kadri-Helena Rõõmus

    Medical care

    Kadri-Helena has been connected to the medical sector all of her life. She has medicine and helping others at heart.

    For the last 8 years she has been one of the owners of the private City Health Clinic in the center of Tallinn, offering personalized medical care.

    Kadri-Helena has two adult children and her hobbies are pilates and traveling.

  • Kaie Ekker

    Kaie Ekker

    Accounting specialist

    Kaie is a dedicated finance professional currently working as an Accounting Specialist, where she combines analytical precision with a strong attention to detail. With a background in the airline industry, she previously supported travel agents, gaining valuable experience in customer service, logistics and international operations.

    Outside of her professional life, Kaie has a passion for travelling, gardening and she is an enthusiastic participant in traditional folk dancing.

  • Inga Lindmaa

    Inga Lindmaa

    Trade, jewelry

    For 30 years, Inga has been operating her own company, which is engaged in the retail and wholesale of jewelry.

    In addition, she has trained customer service representatives in the jewelry sector.

  • Maris Kajari

    Maris Kajari

    Personal trainer, Zumba trainer, yoga trainer

    Maris has been a coach for 12 years and a Zumba coach since 2010. Maris agrees that there is a healthy mind in a healthy body and she is committed to supporting people on their training journey. She likes to guide people one by one to take into account their physical and personal goals. Zumba as a dance gives spice to life and it is a real balm for the soul, to dance self-confidently. Yoga provides mobility and has a calming effect.

    Maris does what she loves and she loves what she does, and that is what she thinks is the ultimate goal of life. In addition, she teaches anatomy and physiology at school, where she can focus on being human at the cellular level, and researches nutrition as a hobby.

    At home, Maris has 4 daughters who take part in mother's activities and on whom new methods can be tested.

  • Maret Sukles

    Maret Sukles

    Business, spa hotel

    Maret's first education is as a teacher of Russian language and literature. She also studied suggestive and intensive methods in Moscow. She has taught all the languages she knows: Estonian and Russian in Helsinki for almost 6 years, Estonian, Russian and English in Estonia for both children and adults.

    She founded the Bergfeldt mud spa with her friends in 1993 and has been operating in the spa business since then (Laine, Pirita TOP Spa, Fra Mare). Maret graduated from the Estonian Business School in 2000 with an MBA in Business Administration. She has also studied quality management at Tallinn University of Technology, has been a sommelier and graduated from the European School of Economics.

  • Katrina Tang

    Katrina Tang

    Photography, fashion photography

    Katrina Tang has been a portrait and fashion photographer for more than 10 years. Her career has taken her all around the world where she has worked on a number of internationally well known children's brands and publications including Gucci, Oeuf NYC, Aptamil, The Times, Harrods, Milk Magazine and many more.

    Next to the commercial work, Katrina has collaborated with many NGO projects and also been part of the organizing team for one of the largest family festivals in Estonia, Rõõmsate Laste Festival.

    Throughout her career she has supported many up-and-coming talented brands in Estonia and currently is representing a childrenswear brand OliverMartin.

  • Eha Mäesalu

    Eha Mäesalu

    Translation, interpreting and technology

    Eha Mäesalu is an Estonian tech entrepreneur passionate about modernising the language services industry. Eha studied in Mexico, Spain, Belgium and Estonia to obtain her MA in Conference Interpreting and has more than 12 years of experience in translation, interpreting and editing. During her career, she has worked as a teacher, organized practical trainings on remote interpreting, and her enterprise continuously cooperates with the local universities to provide hands-on tech experience to students. As part of this programme, she has co-supervised the first bachelor's thesis written in Estonia on interpretation technology.

    Eha's translation agency TRIT provides interpreting, translation and editing services for Estonian, English, Spanish, French and other major European languages. In addition, they're developing software for organizing online multilingual events.

  • Anne-Ly Ridal

    Anne-Ly Ridal

    Event marketing

    Anne-Ly has been active in event marketing for over 20 years. She graduated from Tallinn University, majoring in recreation management. Anne-Ly organizes corporate marketing events, staff events, openings, conferences and even weddings. Her work is her lifestyle.

    She likes classical music, sports, visual arts, traveling and cool open people. Life always has something awesome to offer, just be open and smile!

  • Merite Liidemaa-Pärn

    Merite Liidemaa-Pärn

    Human resources, networking

    AVARA Estonian Business and Hospitality College

    Merite's experience during more than 15 years in the HR field covers different business areas but her heart belongs to production companies. Today she works as HR Manager at AVARA Estonian Business and Hospitality College. Before that she was Director, HR & Management at the international company Metsä Wood Eesti AS, where she was also a member of the Management Board and took care of the legal alignment of business processes.

    Merite has been leading for more than 3 years a voluntary non-official HR network, HR Foorum of Pärnu. She strongly believes in networking values and team work, so she has been awarded in 2023 as a nominee of Leadership Masterclass of HR Management of Legacy of Brackmann, by Pärnu's Chamber of Enterprises.

    Merite's passion is handicraft, including developing her skills in different fields of handicraft.

  • Berit Joosep

    Berit Joosep

    Berrichi natural skincare

    The Berrichi natural cosmetics series was born from Berit Joosep's passionate hobby in cooperation with Tallinn University, the wisdom of nature and plants. Berit wants all women to feel confident and good in their own skin, and she tries to inject this art into them with her knowledge and Berrichi products.

    One of the main active ingredients in Berrichi products is Baltic Sea algae.

    Berit has worked as a natural cosmetics entrepreneur for six years. She cares about sustainable production and has taken steps to make Berrichi a truly ecological brand.

  • Eve Kallast

    Eve Kallast

    Accounting and finance

    Having been involved in the accounting and finance field for over 20 years, she has gained experience with international companies engaged in a wide scale of activities, including gasoil sales, accommodation and customer services, accounting services, IT development and real estate development as a Chief Accountant or Finance Manager. Additionally she is also an entrepreneur and owns a company that provides accounting and consulting services to smaller companies and startups.

    She is also a proud mother of two almost grown up children, a 19-year old daughter and a 15-year old son. She loves theatre, literature, music and visual arts. Eve is interested in different cultures, travelling and nature with all its beauty.

  • Kaidi Hunt

    Kaidi Hunt

    Education, face yoga

    For 20 years, Kaidi has been editing the education portal koolitused.ee, and for the last four years she has also been a face yoga teacher. Natural beauty is important to her and she wants to convey the message that every woman is already beautiful. With small "tricks" it is possible to maintain your beauty and slow down the aging process.

    Kaidi is a mother of three daughters. Two of them are adults and the youngest is 12 years old. She also has a grandson.

    Hobbies are reading, diving, Latin American dances, theater, visual arts and traveling. She is also interested in spiritual development, energy medicine and natural health.

  • Piret Ahun

    Piret Ahun

    Sales

    Piret has more than 25 years of sales experience in FMCG companies. Ten years ago she, with some friends, founded Öun Drinks, a company that produces non-alcoholic handcraft sparkling drinks from Estonian apples. Piret has a 26 year old daughter, who also works in the same company as Innovation Manager. Piret enjoys handicraft, especially restoring furniture and weaving.

  • Tiiu Tasane

    Tiiu Tasane

    Finance

    Tiiu has over 30 years of financial experience in various companies. She believes that there is never enough new knowledge in our fast-paced world and is therefore in a constant state of self-improvement and loves to share her knowledge with others.

    Tiiu is an aunt to eight beautiful children and a great-aunt to seven. She loves travelling, hiking in our beautiful Estonian forests and has a strong love for crime novels.

  • Hiie Taks

    Hiie Taks

    Musician, teacher, coach

    As a professional musician, Hiie plays and teaches violin and viola, and also conducts youth orchestras. Her passion is music and teaching the instrument needs a holistic approach to music making. Many aspects connected with psychology, bodywork and breathing are subjects that she has gone through attending various courses and practical trainings. She has learned and has certifications in massage technique, BBTR (Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release) and energy work. In her work as a coach and a teacher she uses alternative methods and mixes different methods and genres in music making. Music can be a method of therapy as it's the direct "highway" to our subconscious mind.

    She is a loving mother of her two daughters.

  • Olivia Beilmann

    Olivia Beilmann

    Student

    Olivia finished elementary school at Tallinn's 21st School, where she became interested in French in the 8th grade and started studying it independently. Now she is studying French at Gustav Adolf Gymnasium.

    In her spare time, Olivia likes to enjoy nature while running or walking, and to travel and gather knowledge.

ÄND Friends 2026

Special friends of the network.

  • Inga LäänemetsFriend

    Inga Läänemets

    Entrepreneur, educator, executive coach, publisher

    Inga fosters the need to connect people, to build bridges, to create opportunities so others can break through with network support and change the course of life. She is happy to make people feel good and discover their passion and empower them to take action.

    She holds a bachelor's degree in Medicine, Master degree in Psychology and Organizational behavior from International Tallinn University, studied Academy of Executive Coaching and will continue executive education in practical coaching in Estonian Business School.

    She is also a Co-Founder of Holistic Education Fond (fond.pjk.ee) and volunteers in a private St John's School. Founder and Managing Director of Cream de la Cream OÜ. Inga is mother to one incredible daughter.

  • Kadri KoopFriend

    Kadri Koop

    Audit partner, Sirius Audit

    Audit and assurance

  • Mariel AkkermannFriend

    Mariel Akkermann

    Certified auditor

    Audit partner at Sirius Audit

  • Riina PärnFriend

    Riina Pärn

    Trademark and design attorney, lawyer

    CEO and partner at Pärn & Partners

  • Helen ViiraFriend

    Helen Viira

    Risk manager

    PZU Estonia

ÄND unites women of different ages and fields, who share a similar worldview, demonstrating leadership in their respective areas. These self-employed leaders actively support and empower other entrepreneurial women.

Different fields, same goals.

We grow together.

Our events bring us insights about other businesses and cultures, but also about being a woman and businesswoman in different countries.

  1. 2022Dubai EXPO

    Visiting Dubai EXPO and meetings with local women entrepreneurs and government associations.

  2. 2022Helsinki

    Visiting Helsinki and meeting Helsingin Yrittäjänaiset women entrepreneurs.

  3. 2023Cape Town, South Africa

    Meetings with local women entrepreneurs.

  4. 2024Switzerland

    16-20 October.

  5. 2025Osaka EXPO, Japan