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Marko Ahtisaari

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Marko Ahtisaari(born 6 February 1969[1]inHelsinki,Finland) is a Finnish technology entrepreneur and musician. Ahtisaari has beenCEOand co-founder of two technology companies:Dopplr(acquired by Nokia in 2009)[2]and Sync Project (acquired by Bose in 2018).[3]After the acquisition of Dopplr, Ahtisaari was executive vice president of Design at Nokia[4]and later a Director's Fellow at the MIT Media Lab.[5]He is a composer, bassist and singer in the band Construction.[6]

Early life

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Marko Ahtisaari is the son ofMartti Ahtisaari,a former UN diplomat andPresident of Finland,andEeva Ahtisaari,the formerFirst Lady of Finland.He attendedColumbia University,where he studied philosophy, economics and music.[7]

Work

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Ahtisaari's business career started at a new media company Satama Interactive in 1998. In 2002 Ahtisaari left the company to join its biggest client,Nokia.He was appointed Director of Design strategy in 2005. In 2006, he left Nokia and joined his former boss, Nokia CEOPekka Ala-Pietiläto start an advertisement-supported mobile networkBlyk.[8][9]In 2007, Ahtisaari became the founding investor and CEO of online business travel startupDopplr,[10][11]which was acquired byNokiain 2009.[12]Between February 2009 September 2013 Ahtisaari was Head of Product Design at Nokia.[13][14]In January 2012, he was appointed as a member of the Nokia leadership team.[15]Ahtisaari announced his resignation from Nokia when Microsoft acquired Nokia's devices business in September 2013.[16]

Ahtisaari is co-editor with Laura Houseley of Out of the Blue: The Essence and Ambition of Finnish Design (Gestalten 2014) a survey of Finnish Design.[17]Ahtisaari and Finnish entrepreneur and journalist Jaakko Tapaninen co-authored the book 10x Finland (Teos 2015) for the Finnish-speaking audience on the impact of digitalisation on a country like Finland. The book is based on original interviews with international persons of interest in technology and media including Joi Ito, Stefana Broadbent, Tyler Brule, danah boyd, Joshua Cooper Ramo, and Bret Easton Ellis. In its review the Finnish National daily Helsingin Sanomat called 10x Finland "one of the most interesting books written in Finnish on the effects of digitalisation."[18]Ahtisaari contributed the essay "Intelligent Travel" to theFreesoulsproject.[19]

Music

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Ahtisaari's band Skizm - together with percussionistMauro Refosco,trumpetistMichael Leonhart,bassist Dan Cooper, singer Carolyn Kelley, and drummer Tobias Gebb - received a NARAS Grammy Showcase Award for new artists.[20]

References

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  1. ^"f-secure board profile page".
  2. ^Bradshaw, Tim (28 September 2009)."Nokia maps a path to Dopplr's door".Financial Times.Retrieved2018-04-13.
  3. ^"Sync Project Joins Bose".Sync Project.Retrieved2018-04-13.
  4. ^Levy, Steven."Nokia's Visionary Wants to Out-Design Apple".Wired.Retrieved2018-04-13.
  5. ^"Announcing the Director's Fellows Second Cohort".Medium.2 December 2015.Retrieved2018-04-13.
  6. ^"The Final Nail in Nokia's Coffin".The Verge.17 June 2015.Retrieved2018-04-13.
  7. ^Levy, Steven."Nokia's Visionary Wants to Out-Design Apple".Wired.Retrieved2018-04-13.
  8. ^Press - Conversations
  9. ^""Nokia's Pekka Ala-Pietilä and Ahtisaari started an operator" Nokian Pekka Ala-Pietilä ja Ahtisaari perustivat operaattorin ".Digitoday.Retrieved2008-05-10.
  10. ^"Dopplr Receives Funding from Premier International Team: Varsavsky, Ito, Hoffman and Klein invest in online social-travel service".2007-09-04.Retrieved2008-05-11.
  11. ^Johnson, Bobbie (2007-07-30)."Dopplr.com".Guardian.Retrieved2008-05-11.
  12. ^"Nokia buys social media website Dopplr".www.campaignlive.co.uk.Retrieved2022-06-30.
  13. ^"GOOD DESIGN Interview - Nokia Design Team".Ahtisaari.Retrieved2022-06-30.
  14. ^"DGAP-UK-Regulatory: Nokia outlines new strategy, introduces new leadership, operational structure".www.tmcnet.com.Retrieved2022-06-30.
  15. ^Nokia appoints Marko Ahtisaari to Nokia Leadership Team - Nokia Press Release January 26th 2012
  16. ^"Marko Ahtisaari, Nokia's Top Designer, to Leave Company in November".AllThingsD.Retrieved2022-06-30.
  17. ^"Designing Finnishness for Out of the Blue".City of Sound.Retrieved2018-04-13.
  18. ^"Näin digiaika murentaa demokratiaa".Helsingin Sanomat.30 November 2015.Retrieved2018-04-13.
  19. ^Ahtisaari, Marko."Intelligent Travel".freesouls.cc.Retrieved2022-06-30.
  20. ^"Doors of Perception 7 on Flow".2003-03-31. Archived fromthe originalon 2008-05-04.Retrieved2008-04-19.
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