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Management

Ville Kauppinen, CEO, Co-founder

Ville KauppinenVille has a solid 9-year applied RFID experience from our implementation projects. Having an industrial management and IT background Ville has worked on process design projects and is experienced in crunching the numbers out of implementation case prospects. Ville manages our Operations team. In assignments he specialized in automotive manufacturing, apparel and postal segments. Ville holds and M.Sc. (Eng.) in Industrial management from Helsinki University of Technology.

ville.kauppinen@vilant.com
Tel.: +358 50 328 8001

Karoliina Mäkynen, Director, Finance and Administration

Karoliina Mäkynen
Karoliina is an experienced finance manager with a background in cost and asset management, forecasting, financial planning and processes. Her team is responsible for Vilant’s finances, Human Resources and IT. Previously, Karoliina held senior accounting positions at Nokia Siemens Networks and Anttila. She earned a M.Sc. (Econ.) from University of Tampere, Finland.

karoliina.makynen@vilant.com
Tel.: +358 50 331 1248

Vesa-Pekka Tapper, Director, Sales

Vesa-Pekka TapperBy widespread experience in creating business critical RFID systems from scratch for several large customers, Vesa-Pekka has gained an uncompromised expertise in designing RFID processes and evaluating customer business cases.  Besides managing numerous RFID system implementations, in 2004 Vesa-Pekka was responsible for the two year ramp-up of RFID Lab Finland, a Finnish cluster driven application center and still is an active host in RFID seminars, trainings and workshops. Vesa-Pekka manages our sales team and partner sales globally. He has specialized in people tracking, asset management, aviation and railway segments. Vesa-Pekka holds an M.Sc. (Eng.) in Engineering Physics and Mathematics from Helsinki University of Technology.

vesa-pekka.tapper@vilant.com
Tel.: +358 41 538 9293

Antti Saarilahti, Director, Software development

Antti SaarilahtiWith a solid 10-year experience in challenging server software development, Antti manages our software development team. With his team he is both responsible for Vilant Server and Vilant Client development and the resourcing of customer implementation projects. Antti holds an M.Sc. (Eng.) in Computer Science from Helsinki University of Technology and an M.Sc. (Econ.) from Helsinki School of Economics.

antti.saarilahti@vilant.com
Tel.: +358 50 3866 555

Arlinda Sipilä, Director, Products & Marketing

Arlinda SipilaArlinda leads the team that focuses in developing the product strategy and rolls out marketing activities at Vilant. She has a strong technology marketing background in international business environment. In addition to more established companies like Tellabs, Arlinda is experienced with growth startups including SSH Communications, SEVEN Networks Inc., and Xtract. Arlinda holds a Master in Business Administration and is finalizing her postgraduate studies at Helsinki University, Finland.

arlinda.sipila@vilant.com
Tel.: +358 50 362 3571

Panu Virtanen, Director of Operations

Panu VirtanenPanu leads the Operations team that delivers the customer projects and provides support. He has over ten years of experience in Project and engineering management in product development and manufacturing industries in international companies like Elcoteq. Panu’s educational background is on Mechanical Engineering at Helsinki University of Technology.

panu.virtanen@vilant.com
Tel.: +358 40 5696539

We are often asked and readily available for expert interviews, seminar presentations and company internal workshops in the area of RFID applications. Presentations can be held in Finnish, English, German and French. We focus our presentations on real life implementations of the given subject area, have dozens of implementation video footages available as showcases and are therefore liked among the pragmatic industrialist audience. Feel free to contact us with your request via email or phone.