I am Executive-in-Residence at Aalto University and lead Aalto Health Platform, a broad-scope healthcare, health tech and business institute of currently 90 professors and some hundreds of researchers (www.health.aalto.fi). I am an industrial executive with experience from strategy, acquisitions & integration, operational development, sales and other functions, and globally leading some of these for a large P&L. I have worked in Finland, the US, the UK, and Norway. Industry expertise: ICT, healthcare, energy, bio, and finance. Technology basis: EE, SW, and mechanical engineering. My current work keeps me closely up-to-date with the managerial implications of trends such as AI/ML/data-analytics, 5G/IoT/Industry 4.0, and cloud computing.

Prior to my executive career (before 2008), I held chair as Professor of Software Development at the University of Turku, was Director of Laboratory at Turku Center for Computer Science, and was earlier an acting full professor. I was also Research Director, Senior Researcher and Docent at Helsinki University of Technology, and worked at e.g. Morgan Stanley, Stanford University, and the Wharton School.

I am a former Business Fellow and Junior Fellow of the Finnish Business and Policy Forum (EVA) and recipient of the Haynes Prize by the Academy of International Business.

I am in the boards of the Health Capital Helsinki innovation alliance (www.healthcapitalhelsinki.fi) of the City of Helsinki and our hospital and R&D collaborators; the Finnish national R&D cluster for healthcare and wellbeing; and the Finnish Association for Medical Physics and Medical Engineering. My hobbies are sports, reading, and culture.