Marko Ahtisaari

Marko Ahtisaariis Senior Vice President of Design at Nokia. Raised on three continents in Helsinki, Dar es Salaam and New York, Marko studied philosophy, economics and music at Columbia University in the City of New York. During his years lecturing at Columbia he had a parallel professional life in music as a bassist and composer. Ahtisaari was CEO and Co-founder of Dopplr, the social atlas for smart travellers around the world, acquired by Nokia in 2009. Previously he was part of the founding team at Blyk, the free mobile network for young people, funded by advertising. In the in-between moments Marko composes ambient music for public and private spaces, and occasionally sings arias.

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