He has 20 years of experience in consultancy and executive education for management concerning strategies, change processes, and competence development.

He has worked with many large companies, such as Aviva, Cargotec, Ericsson, Fortum, NCC, Nokia, Nordea, Pfizer, SEB, Skanska, Telia, and UPM. Patrick has board work experience in SMEs. His past activities include top management group experience in the IT industry.

Patrick’s research has centred on strategic knowledge creation and sharing in multinational companies, the role of the board of directors in medium-sized companies, and leadership models and processes in improvising jazz bands and classical music ensembles. At Aalto EE, Patrick covers topics such as strategy creation and execution, the interface between leadership and strategy, managing complexity, agile organizational forms, digital leadership, and high-performing teams and collective competence.

Karhu is an expert on platform business models and a seasoned teacher on digital strategy. By combining hands-on industry experience with academic thinking, he seeks to explain how AI, machine learning, and other technologies can be leveraged for scaling platform business. 

In his doctoral thesis, Karhu analyzed open platform strategizing and digital tactics in mobile ecosystems.

For the past 15+ years, she has been focusing on understanding and resolving how different companies find the most relevant data and refine and integrate it into their business processes and daily work. She has worked as a business controller, a consultant helping clients in various industries to utilize the full potential of their data and analytics systems, and as a development director of data utilization in Sanoma Media Finland. Her role at Sanoma was to drive the company-wide data-driven culture transformation and lead a team of 20+ analysts and data scientists supporting consumer sales, media content design, customer service, and digital service development operations.

Lahti is a founding partner of AI Roots, a network and agency for data professionals. At AI Roots, she helped companies across various industries build winning data teams and exploit the potential of data through the right skills and talent. Currently, she works as Head of Services & Customer Success at Saidot, contributing to the development of an AI governance platform that aims to support the responsible use of AI in organizations.

His main research themes include ecosystems and platforms, the role of data, algorithms, and digital technologies in organizations, and the circular and regenerative economy. His research has been published in the field-leading outlets such as Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, and Academy of Management Perspectives. He is closely involved with business practice through research projects, executive and professional education programs, and in speaker and advisory roles. In recent years, his research and coaching have helped dozens of companies in renewing their strategy to accommodate new data-driven digital technologies such as generative AI, digital platforms, and more.

Prof. Ritala is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of R&D Management and serves on the editorial review boards of Journal of Product Innovation Management and Organization & Environment.

He has a colorful history overlapping design, business, technology, and society. The common denominator between these three roles is his endless enthusiasm to figure out how technology and society are intertwined: in culture, in politics, in business, as well as in everyday life.

His research, teaching, and service design work have received numerous awards and much popularity.

Risto Sarvas holds a doctorate in Media Technology from  Aalto University.