THE OWNER

...was born in Jyväskylä in December 1972. In September of the same year, running legend Lasse Viren had fallen 10,000 meters and won Olympic gold in a new world record time.

He spent his childhood in different residential areas in Jyväskylä and graduated as the first telephone installer in the middle of the Great Depression in 1991. There were about 500,000 unemployed people in Finland at the time, so getting a job was practically impossible.

He joined the army in 1992 to serve 11 months in the air force at Tikkakoski. After the army, he moved to Riihimäki to study telecommunications at Riihimäki University of Technology 1993-1996. After graduating from there, he moved to the capital of Finland, Helsinki, to work for the next 8 years as a telecommunications specialist. He completed his last degree at Laurea University of Applied Sciences in 2003-2007 as a subject in service production and management. He has also been an exchange student at the Budapest Business School in Hungary and during an internship in Nepal. Today, he still lives and works in Helsinki.