They are an entrepreneur, investor, and lifelong learner who founded F-Secure in 1988 and led it as CEO for 18 years, later becoming Chairman of WithSecure (B2B) after the split in 2022.
They served as Chairman of Nokia from 2012 to 2020, including Interim CEO from 2013 to 2014, and led negotiations that resulted in the sale of Nokia’s handset business to Microsoft, the acquisition of Siemens’s share of NSN, and the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent.
They focus on entrepreneurship, venture investing, and strategic foresight through First Fellow Partners, investing in tech companies at the pre-seed stage with a portfolio of 50+ companies and seven unicorns to date.
They work with Aalto University on entrepreneurship and fundraising, serve on the IESE Business School Advisory Board, and earned Doctor of Technology (Hon.) degrees from Aalto University in 2018 and L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University in 2019, along with a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management from Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan.
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