Pasi Hurri

In 2001, Pasi Hurri, together with a powerful team of Finnish technology professionals, established BaseN Corporation. Hurri is BaseN’s current President & CEO. In his earlier days, Hurri was Network Director for a large multinational enterprise, giving him valuable experience in both the corporate and service provider worlds. He garnered his experience through practical work, but also had an underlying idea, a vision if you will, and that was to build a fault tolerant, yet versatile and distributed system for gathering very large amounts of data, and making it comprehensible for critical decision makers.

Most of Hurri's innovations and leadership skills are a result from his training in the Finnish Air Force, which he acknowledges as “the best school he has ever attended”. He studied at the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki University of Technology. BaseN’s vision stems from Hurri’s military background where he became acquainted with Clausewitz principles on the importance of having an accurate view of the situation at all times. Monitoring the Finnish airspace coherently with data coming from very different surveillance systems e.g. from advanced long-range radars to solitary human watchtower observers was an interesting scenario that intrigued him ever since.

Hurri began his commercial career in the Technology Department of Ahlstrom Corporation in Finland. During his thirteen years there, he played a significant role in leveraging and adapting the newest technologies for the company. After perfecting the global telecommunications network for the company, Hurri decided to accept his new challenge to lead the Network Operations Group at EUnet Finland. EUnet was the first ISP in Finland, later becoming part of the Dutch-based KPNQwest. Hurri served in several senior management positions at KPNQwest NV, i.e. Vice President of the Engineering and Technology departments.