About us | Advian

We develop your business and the supporting architecture to jointly utilize new opportunities created by location, data, and emerging technologies.

We founded Advian so that you wouldn’t have to make decisions based on guesswork in a world full of data.

Our journey began in 2019, when a group of professionals got frustrated to see how the big words such as AI, big data and advanced analytics were misused for forced sale of consultation hours.

We are only interested in the success of your organization. We intend to only use relevant materials from the bottomless data silos, combine it with new data and together with location intelligence, build unfair competitive advantage. As our unbribable assistants, we use e.g. artificial intelligence and advanced analytics.

Meet the team

On this page, you will find our team and contact information. All email addresses are in the format:
firstname.lastname@advian.fi

Our pool of experts is growing all the time. In addition, we make efficient use of our partner network for deliveries.

We are hiring

Janne Honkonen

CEO, Founder
+358 40 049 4492

Laura Tuomikoski

Senior Advisor, Partner

Samu Paajanen

Senior Advisor, Partner

Jonne Hirvonen

Sales Lead
+358 50 487 1572

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Niklas Ahlbäck

Data Advisor

Arsi Juote

Data Architect

Matti Karppanen

Senior Data Scientist

Eero af Heurlin

Lead Technical Advisor

Tommi Peltomo

Senior Advisor

Chris Winquist

Chief Commercial Officer
+358 50 387 8670

Omar Hassan

Machine Learning Engineer

Juha Kivi

Senior Data Engineer

Afshin Dini

Machine Learning Engineer

Sanna Haapa

Data Analyst

Jere Virolainen

GIS Data Engineer

Hieu Bui

Data Engineer

Eeva Randen

Lead Data Analyst

Petri Hirvonen

Senior Data Management Specialist

Marcell Soler Torres

Data Analyst and GIS Quality Assurance

Nadir Bengana

Machine Learning Engineer

Riikka Hakala

Data Engineer

Sami Ikonen

Quality Assurance Specialist

Jaakko Viljakainen

Data Analyst

Otto Salminen

Marketing Lead
+358 50 329 6094

Petteri Koivula

Data Analyst

Pinja Fernström

People Lead

Nandita Wager

Delivery Lead

Jens Kreier

Senior Software Architect

Joel Forsmoo

Data Scientist

Our Advisor

Mikko Marsio

Board Member @The Qt Company

Why Advian?

GAIN AN UNFAIR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE WITH US

Competence

A unique combination of business design, data, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud computing and Location intelligence skills. The average experience of our employees’ is 15+ years.

Results

We focus on your competitiveness only, achieving tangible results with sustainable solutions.

Innovation

As the world develops so should you. Our ambition to build world-class solutions fuels our ability to innovate your entire operations.

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We are Advian –
Your shortcut to success.

We develop your business and the supporting architecture to jointly utilize new opportunities created by location, data, and emerging technologies.