The Management Team

We’re a team of researchers, engineers, policy experts and operational leaders, with experience spanning a variety of disciplines, all working together to build reliable and understandable AI systems

Justin Klintberg
Executive Director

  • Justin has 20+ years of experience in capital markets leading investments building high performing businesses from startups to fortune 500 companies. Skilled in Investment Advisory, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Restructuring, Private capital, Pre-IPO and IPO.

Virpi Pennanen
CEO

  • Virpi brings 25+ years of experience in running tech companies and leading high performing sales and engineering teams. Prior to joining NVISO, Virpi has held CEO, Group General Manager and Director positions from startups to large global enterprises in Finland, Norway and Australia.

Dr. Bogdan Lazar
Head of Products

  • Bogdan has more than 15+ years of experience in project management (hardware and software, new products, each multi-disciplinary), building and managing engineering teams. Bogdan holds a PhD in Manufacturing Systems and Robotics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL).

Colin Mason

Colin Mason
Head of Sales

  • Colin is an international technology professional with nearly 40 years management, sales, marketing, engineering and operations experience. Colin holds a Bachelor of Science (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) with Honors from The University of Edinburgh, is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.

Takahiro Nakamura
Sales Japan

  • Takahiro has more than 30 years of sales experience in the Japanese market. Takahiro has held several director level sales positions with major Japanese enterprises. Takahiro holds a Bachelors of Physics from the College of Science and Technology, Nihon University

Dr. Luigi Bagnato
Lead AI Scientist

  • Luigi has more than 15 years of experience in high tech research, development and commercialisation of break-through products, specialising in vision systems, image processing, computer vision and machine learning. Luigi has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL).