Our Team

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    Sami Luukkonen

    Founding partner

    Sami brings experience working with a number of world leading defense/armed forces and defense industry players. He ran Accenture’s Aerospace & Defense as well as their High Tech businesses globally. He specializes in scaling businesses.

  • Antti Kosunen

    Founding partner

    Antti has managed 29 accelerators in 12 countries working and invested into hundreds of startups. He knows how to connect startups with big organizations bringing customers to startups and new innovations and learnings to big organizations. Antti is a startup business model developer who can build lasting win-win deals. 

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    Joonas Vesterinen

    Project Manager

    Joonas is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Aalto Defence student organization. He brings fresh perspectives from the defence tech ecosystem and his studies and work related to new product development and interdisciplinary collaboration.

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    Ville Somppi

    Mentor

    Ville has a 25-year track record building product and service businesses across industries. He also brings experience in unmanned aviation research and development for national security and defense, understanding of UAS & sensor technologies, field operations & tactics and command & control systems. Ville has a Master's degree (MSc) in software engineering.

  • Markus

    Mentor

    Soldier with experience in Ukrainian war and other military operations. Markus is an expert in drones and he also has taken part oin several tech development projects. He brings understanding of today’s war as well as the weapons of today and tomorrow.

  • Petri

    Mentor

    “Petri” is focused on developing new business based on data and artificial intelligence. He is an international technology commercializer and an active reservist. He has experience in startup exits, operational management, board work, and growth initiatives across various industries. Petri is known for his ability to turn complex entities into actionable plans and execute them with determination.

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    Secret Advisors

    Mentor

    World-class R&D professionals from top-tier research institutes and tech companies

    Product leaders and engineers from global tech companies

    Defense professionals, battlefield operators, and procurement experts