Location Sunnyvale, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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As General Manager for OEM and Technology Licensing, Mr. Laakkonen is responsible for the business unit developing, managing and directing Bitdefender’s global business operations with OEM, licensing and re-branding customers.
Having +20 years multi-cultural experience in hi-tech and information security fields he joins the company from
Kaspersky Lab Customized Solutions, where Mr. Laakkonen as its CEO brought the company into worldwide leadership in the OEM market.
Before Kaspersky he worked as senior executive for many data security companies including F-Secure Inc., which Mr. Laakkonen, as its founder and President, established as strong content security player in North America resulting into company’s successful IPO and global leadership in security as a service and mobile security markets.

