Santeri Kangas

Santeri Kangas is a dynamic entrepreneurial professional with a versatile background in cybersecurity, enterprise software, and cloud services. With 25 years of experience, he has been instrumental in building award-winning software products across various market segments. His expertise lies in developing cybersecurity products for End Point Protection, Software Vulnerability Management, Software License Optimization, Identity and Access Management, Identity Governance and Administration, Personal Cloud, and Cyber Security Service markets.

Santeri is known for his leadership skills and has a proven track record of setting up, leading, and optimizing multinational cybersecurity, SaaS operations, and R&D organizations. He excels in building product development support functions such as IPR management, technology licensing, technology strategy, architecture governance, subcontracting, product management, IT, DevOps, and hosting/cloud operations. Furthermore, he brings valuable experience as a CISO and CIO in Tier 1 SaaS operations, showcasing expertise in ITIL and ISO27001/18 standards.

Apart from his technical prowess, Santeri has a strong educational foundation with a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Henley Business School, a Bachelor’s Degree, and an Associate’s Degree from Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences.

His professional journey includes roles such as CTO at CUJO AI, Former CTO at Omada A/S, Former Vice President and Chief Architect at Flexera, Former CTO at Secunia, and various leadership positions at F-Secure Corporation including VP, Technology Acquisitions, VP Content Cloud, VP Operator Deliveries, VP Technology & Chief Architect, VP Research, Director of Research, Research Program Manager, and Development Program Manager at F-Secure Corporation and Data Fellows Oy.