Ilkka Huotelin

Experienced senior leader and consultant with about 30 years of experience as head of data and AI (12 years), sales and business development director (10 years), consultant and transformation programme leader (12 years), and start-up founder and CEO (7 years). His industry portfolio includes IT, technology, telecommunications, e-commerce, and energy. Ilkka has in-depth hands-on knowledge of leading and applying data analytics and Artificial Intelligence in business with special focus on understanding and influencing customer behaviour in real-time. He can bridge the business needs with the technical capabilities to find creative solutions to business challenges while being aware of the limitations of the data and how it can ethically be used. He has experience from leading multicultural teams (up to 28 direct reports) across the globe and leading large IT and organisation transformation projects. He has led both B2B and B2C sales with personal annual sales quota of 100 MEUR. He also been responsible for launching new products to the market covering aspects such as positioning, messages, pricing, partnerships and finding the first customers. Driven people and businesses leader, keen always to learn new things, innovative and creative problem solver, results-oriented, always on top of the numbers, systems thinker, able to see trends and outcomes.