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 17 years of experience in the field of intellectual property, 13 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.