Swiss Impact with Banerjis

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Zero Emission, safe fun Mobility
Guests: Pekka Ketola, CEO of Scouter Mobility Oy
             Jaakko Pitkäjärvi, COB of Scouter Mobility Oy

Pekka is a practitioner for human innovation, bringing together user experience, innovation, co-creation and business development.

From 1995 to 2011 he worked for Nokia in multiple innovation management roles developing communicators, smartphones and mobile services. At Nokia he was a strong advocate for open innovation and collaborative development. His doctoral thesis (2002) explored how usability engineering can be integrated in complex concurrent development processes.

In 2012 Pekka co-founded innovation company Ideascout to bring the power of collaborative development and user innovation to SMEs and industries. This led him to the path of exploring the biggest opportunities in the society and translating those into new businesses.

Scouter Mobility Oy was born in 2014 from translating urban development megatrends and emerging problems into an industrial scalable solution, a disruptive light electric vehicle.

Pekka is CEO of Scouter Mobility. Pekka is well connected with global innovation networks. He brings value to all areas of development by inspiring people for collaboration, by translating ideas to insights, and by developing tangible business possibilities.

Jaakko Pitkäjärvi is an investor focused on start-ups related to sustainability and energy saving. He holds a medical doctor degree from the University of Tampere and has worked in various healthcare companies for over 20 years. Moreover, his stages of keen activity span from aviation to maritime and automotive fields, both in form of professional certificates and personal interests in aforementioned areas. The investments he has done are spread in different technology sectors mainly outside medicine.

Mr. Pitkäjärvi has been involved with Scouter since 2013 and seen the project progress from basically zero to the current status. The main driver to invest and chair the company has been the revolutionary change the company can offer. Scouter has already proven how different city traffic can be instead of current solutions. And there is an enormous potential in bringing this to global awareness.