Pia Erkinheimo

Pia Erkinheimo, ``jacquiline of all trades`` in innovation, is a co-founder at iloom.io – culture analytics company driving change in organisations and the whole society by using AI and machine learning for natural language processing NLP. Besides that she chairs the board of SOLVED – The Marketplace for sustainability-related knowledge work and acts as a board member for Heart2Save, MedTech & AI company using algorithm for identifying arrythmia. Pia is an active angel investor and member of FiBAN – Finnish Business angels network. Pia has worked at Nordea's Startup & Growth team as responsible for investor deal flow. She pioneered platform thinking in DIGILE, The Finnish Strategic Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation in Internet Economy as Head of Crowds and Communities and in Nokia Corporate Strategy and CTO’s Office as Head of Innovation Crowdsourcing. Employee Transformation & M&A was in her focus during Capgemini Consulting years. Pia holds an MA in behavioural sciences and combines it with industrial management and strategy studies (University of Helsinki, Aalto University, University of Minnesota). Her Ph.D. studies (on-going) at Aalto University has taken her to e.g. University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, USA. Her motto is: “As for the future, your task is not to foresee it but to enable it.” – by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, father of “Le Petit Prince”.