Team
Erkki Yli-Juuti
Erkki has over 20 years of experience in IPR and M&A matters, including more than 10 years with Nokia’s IPR organization where he held various management positions. After his tenure at Nokia IPR, he joined Nokia Wireless Modem where he managed the strategy and portfolio management function and was heading the project leading to the sale of Nokia Wireless Modem business to Renesas. At Renesas Mobile he headed product roadmap and IPR activities. Prior to Condico IP, he worked at SSH Communications Security as VP, Intellectual Property.
Erkki received his Master of Engineering Science degree in applied physics and Licentiate in Technology degree in applied mathematics from the Helsinki University of Technology.
JP Hyvärinen
Jukka-Pekka (JP) has over two decades of experience in the field of intellectual property, over half of which he gained in the United States. Starting from invention extraction at Nokia, he worked his way all the way up to a technical director in an intellectual property-focused startup in Silicon Valley. Since 2016 JP has been advising multiple entities from law firms to multinational corporations to smaller companies on IPR related matters, both in the US and in Finland.
Jukka received his M.Sc. degree in mechanical-, and control engineering, and holds D.Sc. degree in automotive systems engineering from the University of Oulu, Finland.
Thomas Westerlund
Advisor
During the past 5 years, Thomas has advised European small and mid-sized companies in a wide range of IPR and Corporate Finance related matters.
Thomas holds a Masters degree in Finance and Accounting from the Helsinki School of Economics.
Xavier Carpentier
Advisor
Xavier has 20 years of experience in driving strategic and operational initiatives that deliver value for start-ups, scale-ups, Private Equity (“PE”) - backed companies and publicly listed companies. He has a track record in data-driven Financial Planning & Analysis, restructuring and cost optimization, M&A, growth financing, Value Creation Plans, Finance transformation programs and IP valuation.
Xavier has held senior Finance leadership positions in PE-backed software companies, including in Basware where, as VP Finance, he ran and transformed the Group Finance operations and integrated several companies. Prior to this, he worked at Vincit, Greenstep, Fira, as well as for scale-ups and start-ups as a fractional CFO, also executing growth financing arrangements. He started his career at Nokia where he was responsible for the valuation of complex IP related transactions.
Xavier holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Helsinki School of Economics (now Aalto University) and a Master degree from Sciences Po Paris.