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Anssi Ruokonen

VP, Product Development

Anssi Ruokonen leads Data & AI at Basware, working at the intersection of engineering, product, and execution to turn advances in AI into trusted, production-grade capabilities. He has built and scaled multidisciplinary teams spanning data platform engineering, AI/ML, and data science, leading the creation of AI-powered search, agent-based products, and workflow-embedded intelligence. Before Basware, he led product and engineering direction at an AI company building new multilingual service capability for market. That combination of platform building and organizational scaling now shapes his work helping organizations move AI from experimentation to real-world, governed execution.