Mikko Välimäki, CEO. Mikko leads the company’s day-to-day operations. Previously he has lead his own law firm and several software start-up companies, including one that developed a highly-popular graphical user interface for MySQL databases. Mikko has also lectured in numerous universities and published four books on software licensing, copyright, patents and related topics. He has LL.M. from the University of Helsinki and Ph.D from the Helsinki University of Technology.
Phone: +358-50-598-0498. Email: mikko at tuxera dot com.
Szabolcs Szakacsits, President and CTO. Szabolcs leads the company’s software development and customer services. He founded and lead his software company specialized in Linux and Internet for years in Hungary, then developed computer games with Androsoft led by Erno Rubik. Szabolcs moved to Finland in 2000 and worked for F-Secure and Ericsson before co-founding Tuxera, based on the open source project he has lead since 2006. He has M.Sc from Attila Jozsef University of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary.
Phone: +358-40-823-3360. Email: szaka at tuxera dot com.
Timo Bruns, VP sales and marketing. Timo leads the company’s sales and marketing. In the past, he has worked as executive vice president, Opera Software, leading the company’s business development, and as a strategic product manager for Symbian. Timo has M.Sc from University College London.
Phone: +358-40-777-7106. Email: timo at tuxera dot com.