Marko Ahtisaari is a Finnish technology entrepreneur and musician.

Marko Ahtisaari is the son of Martti Ahtisaari

Martti Ahtisaari

Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland , Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work....

, a former UN diplomat, President of Finland

President of Finland

The President of the Republic of Finland is the nation's head of state. Under the Finnish constitution, executive power is vested in the President and the government, with the President possessing extensive powers. The President is elected directly by the people of Finland for a term of six years....

. He attended Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 where he studied philosophy, economics and music.

Ahtisaari's business career has spanned new media company Satama Interactive and advertisement-supported mobile network Blyk

Blyk

Blyk is a "free" ad-supported mobile phone network that offers text messages and customer-to-customer calls. It targets young people has offices in Finland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and in India....

. Ahtisaari was a founding investor and former CEO of online business travel startup Dopplr

Dopplr

Dopplr is a free social networking service, launched in 2007, that allows users to create itineraries of their travel plans and spot correlations with their contacts’ travel plans in order to arrange meetings at any point on their journey. Additional features include allowing the user to calculate...

, which was acquired by Nokia

Nokia

Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...

 in 2009. As of February 2011, Ahtisaari runs Nokia's Design unit, responsible for Nokia product and user experience design.

In addition to his business career, Ahtisaari is an occasional musician and once received a Grammy Showcase Award for new artists.

External links

• http://ahtisaari.typepad.com/about.html
• http://ahtisaari.typepad.com/moia/2005/12/music_for_airpl.html