About
A policy voice that has actually built things.
I write, advise, and operate. The combination is the point: technology policy that has not survived contact with operations is just opinion.
Helsinki, Finland
I work at the intersection of European technology policy and the institutions that have to live with it. My background spans government advisory, regulated industry, teaching, consulting, journalism, and party politics — each of which has corrected the blind spots of the others.
I am the lead author of Finland's 2026 ministerial report on new technologies and digital resilience, Head of Growth & Strategy at Solidate Oy — a Nordic fintech focused on digital tools for sustainable finance — and a member of the advisory board of Statistics Finland. Earlier I served as CEO of NORDXE, a regulated Nordic digital-assets exchange that took a gaming-assets focus through the MiCA transition, and as CEO of Potamoi Group. I co-founded tietopolitiikka.fi, a cross-partisan platform for evidence-based information policy, and serve as secretary of the technology working group of the Social Democratic Party of Finland — the role that actually drafts the policy.
Alongside the institutional work, I have spent more than a decade teaching and consulting on technology policy. Teaching — for universities, executive programmes, civil-service academies, and parliamentary staff — is where I stress-test arguments before they reach print. Consulting — for ministries, regulators, operators, and boards — is where the arguments meet a procurement deadline. Both keep the writing honest.
The work is grounded in a simple commitment: that European democracies should be able to understand, govern, and operate the systems on which they depend — and that this is achievable in the next decade if the right choices are made now.
Track record
Selected roles.
Independent positions in government advisory, regulated industry, statistics, and party politics — grouped by the kind of room each sits in. References available on request.
Roles inside the Finnish state.
2024 — present
Lead author, ministerial report on new technologies and digital resilience
Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications
Lead author of the 2026 government report mapping blockchain, edge computing, IoT, and post-quantum security against a measurable framework for Finnish digital resilience.
2022 — present
Member, advisory board
Statistics Finland
Advising the national statistics authority on data, methodology, and the public-information environment.
Built and run regulated companies.
2025 — present
Head of Growth & Strategy
Solidate Oy
Operational role at a Nordic fintech building digital tools for sustainable finance. Growth, strategy, and the regulatory and partnership architecture behind it.
2024 — 2025
Chief Executive Officer
Potamoi Group Oy
CEO of the holding structure behind a portfolio of technology and policy ventures.
2021 — 2024
Chief Executive Officer
NORDXE
CEO of a regulated Nordic digital-assets exchange focused on gaming-related assets. Three years building the regulatory, organisational, and product foundations of a Nordic crypto venue through the MiCA transition.
2021 — 2025
Senior Advisor
Solidate Oy
Four-year contract advisory relationship preceding the operational role: strategy, regulatory positioning, partnership architecture.
Cross-partisan and party-political work.
2021 — present
Co-founder & editor
tietopolitiikka.fi
A cross-partisan platform for evidence-based information policy in Finland, gathering ministers, MPs, and civil servants around a shared technical literacy.
2020 — present
Secretary, technology working group
Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP)
Drafting the technology positions, translating them into legislative and party-political language, and mentoring a new generation of technically literate parliamentarians.
Where the arguments get tested.
Ongoing
Lecturer & trainer
Universities, executive programmes, public-sector academies
More than a decade of teaching on technology policy, digital resilience, sovereignty, and AI governance — for university courses, civil-service training, parliamentary staff schools, and executive audiences.
Ongoing
Independent consulting
Ministries, regulators, operators, boards
Long-running advisory engagements on technology strategy, regulatory readiness (MiCA, NIS2, EU AI Act, EUCS), sovereign-cloud procurement, and post-quantum migration planning.
Education & languages
University-level education in economics and political science. Working languages: Finnish (native), English (full professional), Swedish (professional), with reading knowledge of additional European languages.
How I work
Writing first, slides second. Plain English over jargon, with acronyms expanded on first use. Independent — paid engagements are disclosed to clients in advance, do not influence published positions, and a summary of current commercial commitments is available on request.