V2C Forum 2004
Venture-to-Capital

Tommi Rasila

Mr Tommi Rasila holds M.Sc. in Engineering from the Tampere University of Technology from 1992. Before and since that he has actively participated in several companies as a founder or an owner. The latest achievement in serial entrepreneur Rasila's career was home theatre and sound reproducer manufacturer Sample Rate Systems established in 1993. The company was bought out in May 2000 by world's second largest electronics manufacturing services company Flextronics International (Nasdaq: FLEX).

For past three years, Rasila has been a full-time Ph.D. Student preparing his dissertation on V2C activity in Tampere University of Technology, but will start as the CEO of Tampere Chamber of Commerce and Industry on 1st October 2004 as the dissertation is nearing its completion. He is also still actively involved in several early stage hi-tech companies as a member of board or an advisor.

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