Jussi Laakkonen

Jussi Laakkonen is the current CEO of Noice Inc. Prior to their current position, they were the Executive Vice President of Unity Technologies from April 2014 to April 2018. Jussi joined the company through the acquisition of Applifier and reported to the CEO as a member of Unity's executive team. Jussi led very rapid growth in the Unity Ads business in years 2014 - 2016 to several hundred millions € in gross revenue with a team of over 150 in staff across 7 offices in North America, Europe and Asia. Jussi built and led an innovative internal startup from 2016 - 2018. In April 2018, they took a sabbatical before starting their next venture.

During their sabbatical, they served as an advisory board member for GameON: Finance 2009 and was the CEO and founder of Applifier from May 2008 to April 2014. Jussi was also the Vice-chairman of Association of Finnish Game Developers from October 2007 to March 2010.

Jussi Laakkonen has a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan. Jussi also has a business degree from the same school.

Some direct reports include Juhani Karlsson - Lead Technical Artist, Eero Pöyry - Head of Production, and Leena Kuitunen - Head of HR.