Harri Okkonen

​Harri is a senior executive with global business experience in a variety of growth stage enterprises including medical device, mobility, healthcare, and regulated companies. While serving in high-visibility positions, Harri has participated in negotiations of several successful merger and acquisition transactions involving US, European and Asian companies. His first opportunity to serve People Power’s CEO, Gene Wang, was at Bitfone, a leading technology provider of over-the-air firmware updates for mobile devices that was acquired by HP in 2007. Having guided the launch of numerous startups, Harri has been called upon by venture capitalists and investors to serve as interim CEO or COO to create rapid turnarounds of companies challenged with suboptimal business performance in India, Korea, the United Kingdom, and Finland.