Customer Success Manager 

1. Where are you from, and what’s your favourite dish from your home country?
Originally from the area of Göttingen, Germany, now living in Finland. 

Favourite dish is mettbrötchen (minced raw pork seasoned with salt and black pepper) 

2. What does a typical day look like in your role?
Every day, I’m connecting with people. Checking in with customers, solving issues, and making sure things run smoothly. Behind the scenes, I collaborate closely with production, sales, and marketing to keep everything aligned and ensure customer value and tangible results.

 
3. What’s the most rewarding part of your role? 
The most rewarding part of my role is seeing our solution make a real, tangible impact in the field. Getting to work closely with customers, understanding their challenges, and helping to prevent fires is incredibly fulfilling. 

4. What’s a fun fact about you that people might not know? 
A fun fact about me is that I designed and built my own board game, which includes both area control and card stacking. It’s been really fun watching people figure out the strategies and get competitive. 

5. What’s your favourite thing about living in Finland? 
My favorite thing about living in Finland is the incredible access to lakes, parks, and forests. Being able to step outside and immediately be surrounded by nature makes it easy to slow down and recharge. 

6. What book or movie left a lasting impression on you? 
A movie that left a lasting impression on me is Inception. I find it fascinating how it plays with the concept of time, layering dreams within dreams and showing how perception of time can shift dramatically. The creativity and complexity of the story keep you thinking. 

Co-founder and CEO of Quanturi

1. Where are you from, and what’s your favourite dish from your home country?

I am French, but I consider myself quite international since I lived in the US for many years and have now been in Finland for over 20 years. I can be quite chatty and super enthusiastic like a French person, but I also deeply enjoy silence and nature like a Finn. At Quanturi, we really value an international mindset and diversity of backgrounds.

When I visit my parents in France, my favourite dish is actually very simple: fried eggs from their own chickens. I eat them with a piece of baguette that I dip into the yolk. It may not be fancy French cuisine, but eggs straight from the family farm are incredibly tasty!

2. What does a typical day look like in your role?
I am the Chief of Everything Officer so there’s really no typical day! Every day is different, and there are always unexpected tasks that come up. My role includes driving the growth of Quanturi, overseeing our Sales and R&D strategy, leading the team, liaising with our global partners, but also watering the office plants and emptying the dishwasher. I believe in feet-on-the-ground, people-focused leadership.

 
3. What’s the most rewarding part of your role? 
The most rewarding part is seeing the impact Quanturi has. We started from scratch, building products that simply didn’t exist before. Today, more than 2,500 customers use our technology every day to make their work easier and protect their assets. That’s incredibly satisfying.

Knowing that Quanturi contributes to the community by providing work not only to our employees but also to many partners in business development, manufacturing, and distribution is very rewarding.

And having a team I can truly rely on and have fun with makes it even more fulfilling.

4. If you could be any animal which would you be?

A cat for its independence, loyalty, and its ability to understand human emotions.

5. What’s your favourite thing about living in Finland? 
You will often find me in the bushes picking berries or mushrooms. I love wandering in the forest and enjoying the peace it brings. Being a CEO can be quite stressful, and for me, spending time in nature is the best way to relax, clear my mind, and come back with new ideas.

6. What book or movie left a lasting impression on you? 
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland. It’s a dystopian novel about what happens when civilization collapses. The book really made me reflect on how dependent we’ve become on technology and how easily we take our surroundings for granted. It also changed my relationship with nature and pushed me to live in a more sustainable way.

Sales Manager – Spain & Global Markets

1. Where are you from, and what’s your favourite dish from your home country?

I’m from Spain, so choosing just one dish is almost impossible. But if I had to pick, it would probably be a good tortilla de patatas with a Estrella Galicia. Preferably shared with friends and family, because in Spain food is never just about eating.

2. What does a typical day look like in your role?
First things first: coffee. After that I check emails, reply to the urgent ones and organise the day’s priorities. The rest of the day is a mix of customer calls, preparing offers, solving problems and trying to help people understand how our system can make their work easier.

 
3. What’s the most rewarding part of your role? 
Closing deals is always nice, of course… but the most rewarding part is building long-term relationships with customers and seeing that our technology actually helps them in their daily operations. When a customer tells you the system is working well and making their life easier, that feels pretty good.

4. What childhood memory makes you smile?

Spending entire days outside with friends from morning until night, just playing, laughing and doing random things. No phones, no schedules, just enjoying the moment.

5. What’s a place you would like to travel to?

Japan. I’ve always been fascinated by many things that come from there, from the video games and animated series many of us grew up with, to their technological innovations, automotive heritage, and their unique traditions.

6. What book or movie left a lasting impression on you?

I’d probably say Fight Club. Not because of the chaos in the movie, but because it questions a lot of things about modern life, consumerism and identity. It definitely makes you think.

Sales Manager – DACH region

1. Where are you from, and what’s your favourite dish from your home country?

I’m originally from Germany, but I grew up in Switzerland, so I have the privilege of holding two passports. That also means I get to enjoy the best of both countries, especially when it comes to food, as both have a very diverse food culture.

My grandfather was a butcher, so I’ve always enjoyed all kinds of sausages and cold cuts. But what I truly love, and couldn’t live without, is Swiss cheese. My favorite is raclette, partly because it’s such a social meal, usually enjoyed with good friends gathered around a table.

2. What does a typical day look like in your role?
 A typical day starts with checking my emails and planning my schedule. I review open deals and follow up on them. I also stay in touch with existing customers to make sure everything is running smoothly and to see if they need any support.

In between, and usually around lunchtime in Central Europe, I do some prospecting. Since Finland is one hour ahead, I typically start calling prospects in the afternoon.

3. What’s the most rewarding part of your role? 
Building relationships with customers, speaking with them regularly, and hearing how the system supports them in their daily operations. It’s very rewarding to know that we help them streamline processes while also making their sites safer.

4. What’s a fun fact about you that people might not know?

In my early 20s, I was the tour manager for a Swiss pop rock band called Dyonikal. I organized concerts, helped with recording their first album, and transported equipment from the rehearsal room to the venues.

Our biggest success was a sold-out show at the legendary club Mascotte in Zurich, with around 500 people in the audience.

5. What do you wish you had more time to do?

Winter sports in the Alps. Living in Finland can be a bit tough for someone from Switzerland who is used to being surrounded by mountains. I love snowboarding and used to have season passes for mountain resorts.

During my student years, we would even go snowboarding in the morning and attend lectures in our snow gear in the afternoon. In Finland, reaching a decent hill usually means a 10-hour drive, so it’s just not quite the same.

6. What book or movie left a lasting impression on you?

It’s the novel Homo Faber by the Swiss author Max Frisch. We had to read it in school, and I found it so fascinating that I reread it several times afterwards.

The story follows Walter Faber, a successful engineer who travels the world. His strictly logical and technical worldview is challenged by a series of unlikely coincidences, as his past and unexpected events begin to unravel his rational way of thinking. It’s a story about travel, friendship, love, and loss.

VP of Marketing and Sales

1. Where are you from, and what’s your favourite dish from your home country?

I’m Australian, originally from Newcastle and Canberra. One of the things I miss most about home is actually the variety of food. You can get great cuisine from all over the world without really thinking about it. But in terms of something classic, I’d always go for an Aussie meat pie or a sausage roll. And I definitely miss Australian coffee, it’s hard to beat. 

2. What does a typical day look like in your role?
There isn’t really a typical day, which is part of what I enjoy. Because I look after both sales and marketing, things can change quickly. Some days are more focused on strategy and planning, others are filled with customer conversations or working through ideas with the team. I also spend quite a bit of time with R&D to make sure what we’re building really reflects what customers need. It’s a good balance between big picture thinking and staying close to what’s actually happening. 

3. What’s the most rewarding part of your role? 
For me it’s the people and the impact. Building a strong team and seeing people grow is a big part of it. At the same time, knowing that what we do helps customers solve real problems makes the work feel meaningful.  

4. If you could be any animal which would you be? 

I’d be a wombat. They’re pretty relaxed and go about things at their own pace, which I like, but they’re also strong and resilient when they need to be. There’s something appealing about that balance. And being Australian, it feels like a fitting choice.

5. What childhood memory makes you smile? 

There are quite a few, but a lot of them revolve around the ocean. Growing up in a coastal town, I have great memories of family BBQs by the beach, very simple. One that stands out is our Christmas holidays, when we’d drive up the coast to the far north coast of New South Wales and go camping by the beach for a couple of weeks. It was pretty basic, but it felt like total freedom as a kid.

6. What book or movie left a lasting impression on you?

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. It’s one of those stories that stays with you because of the characters and the themes around resilience and redemption.

Co-founder and DTO (Design & Technology Officer)

1. Where are you from, and what’s your favourite dish from your home country?

I am from Finland. Although I prefer many Asian kitchens, there is of course a wide variety of traditional Finnish dishes I like. To mention some examples, let’s start with gravlax (Nordic salt-cured salmon) with new potatoes, Karelian pasties and Savonian kalakukko.

2. What does a typical day look like in your role?
If there is a new feature development project going on, I continue designing and coding from where it was left the day before, until the feature is released. Occasionally there can be bugs or other customer issues reported by sales and support. These issues may need instant fixes in configuration, database or application code. In the background I am also constantly monitoring server logs to see if there are any exceptions that would need some maintenance actions.

3. What’s the most rewarding part of your role? 
It is rewarding to develop application features that you know the customers are using for the benefit of their business. Also, it is rewarding to get feedback through sales and support, or even directly from the customers. Positive feedback is rewarding as such, but also in problem cases the reward comes after resolving the issues, by having helped the customer and again improving the system as a whole. 

4. What’s a fun fact about you that people might not know?

In my thirties I moved to a former farmhouse in the countryside, and a small flock of chickens happened to come along as the farm residents. So, for some five years I was a chicken farmer, and self-sufficient, when it comes to eggs.

5. What’s your favourite thing about living in Finland?

One of my favourite things is definitely spending summer days at my cottage in central Finland, heating up the smoke sauna and relaxing in there by the lake.

6. What book or movie left a lasting impression on you?

I can’t avoid mentioning here that at the age of seven I saw the Beatles movie A Hard Day’s Night. Instantly I became a Beatles fan, and that has had a life-long impression. My taste in music has expanded widely since then, but as a young boy it defined the baseline (or bass line :) for my musical pursuits. There would be many “real” movies too, for example Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ with its amazing plot twist, great acting performances and especially the mesmerizing soundtrack by Peter Gabriel.