Ari Tourunen

Ari Tourunen serves as the Vice President of R&D at Ekahau, a position held since September 2016. Prior to this, Tourunen worked at Microsoft from May 2014 to August 2016 as a Principal Program Manager, where responsibilities included leading R&D for the first mobile iris recognition solution in Microsoft Lumia devices. Tourunen's extensive background at Nokia, spanning from May 1997 to April 2014, included roles such as Lead Program Manager for Lumia Phones, where a biometrics strategy and feature roadmap were developed, and various senior product management positions focused on location integration, communications, and video telephony. Education was completed at Tampere University of Technology, earning a Master of Science in Telecommunications.