Toni Astala

Toni Astala is a Managing Consultant at Columbia Road, with extensive experience in design consultancy, where roles include UX designer, service designer, growth owner, and strategy consultant across more than 15 projects. Previous experience includes serving as a Program Coordinator at Startuplifers, where responsibilities encompassed scaling operations internationally and managing CRM system transitions. Early career roles featured UX designer at The Finnish National Rescue Association SPEK, focused on redesigning web services, and customer service representative and sales team leader positions at Hosmed Oy and Friendly Security Finland, respectively. Toni Astala holds a Master’s degree in Information Networks from Aalto University, completed in 2019.