Kari Terho is the General Manager for Elisa Smart Factory, with a focus on Industrial IoT and Data Analytics. Kari has been advising several Fortune 500 companies to strategically transform and optimize their manufacturing operations with help of digital technologies.

Kari joined Elisa as Vice President and Head of Fixed and mobile Network Services in 2008 for Corporate Customers.

Prior to joining to Elisa, Kari held various director positions in the Sales and Business Development in TeliaSonera, the most recent being Director of Business Development for TeliaSonera IES SME Marketing and Offering.

Earlier he has worked as Business Development Director at Yomi Sortware Ltd. and held the EMEA E-Services Business Development Manager position at Hewlett-Packard GmBH as well as the E-Commerce Marketing Manager position at Hewlett-Packard, Finland. He also has several years of experience working for different IT companies.

Kari lives in Espoo, Finland, with his wife and two children.

Elisa Smart Factory provides AI, IIoT and lockout/tagout solutions for industry manufacturers. We connect to any data source, harness streams of data, and combine data analytics and machine learning to create outcomes like increased uptime, production quality and yield. In addition, we help ensure the safety of factory employees by enabling them to track safety procedures related to ensuring that industrial machinery is properly shut off and not restarted until maintenance work has been completed. Being part of Elisa corporation, we have decades of experience in managing vast, highly automated network infrastructures as well as predicting and preventing disruptive incidents. For more information, visit us at www.elisasmartfactory.com