Janne Pirttilahti
About
Janne Pirttilahti is from Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland. Janne is currently Chief Technology Officer & Chief Development Officer at Loihde, located in Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland. Janne also works as Chief B-Advisor (Chairman of the Advisory Board) at Bofor, a job Janne has held since Nov 2022. In Janne's previous role as a Board Member at Frosmo, Janne worked in until Jan 2026. Prior to joining Frosmo, Janne was a Chief Executive Officer at LOUHE and held the position of Chief Executive Officer at Finland. Prior to that, Janne was a Chairman at Frosmo from Jun 2020 to Jun 2025. Janne started working as Vice President, General Manager Cloud Security at WithSecure in Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland in Mar 2022. From Nov 2021 to Mar 2022, Janne was Vice President, General Manager Cloud Security at F-Secure Corporation, based in Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland. Prior to that, Janne was a Vice President Of Products at F-Secure Corporation, based in Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland from Jan 2020 to Jan 2022. Janne started working as Founding Partner and Board Member at Loopback Oy in Jan 2005.
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Janne Pirttilahti's current jobs
Helping Bofor on their growth journey toward absolute awesomeness! Coaching the CEO, planning the agendas for and chairing the advisory board meetings.
Janne Pirttilahti's past jobs
Raised €3.2M seed funding ahead of target, securing 24-month runway. Drove ARR growth, entering international markets and launching new channel programme. Built senior leadership team (Sales, Product Marketing, Delivery) and instilled OKR-driven operating rhythm. Introduced CRM-based forecasting and board dashboards, improving forecast accuracy & investor confidence.
Owned €8M P&L, delivering 70% YoY revenue growth at high EBIT margin. Scaled headcount 9 → 52 in 15 months; built quota-carrying international sales team. Implemented MEDDPICC methodology, raising pipeline conversion and enterprise win rates. Established Salesforce ecosystem partnership, driving joint GTM and revenue acceleration..
Managing fast growing business area with ambitious targets. Great product and awesome team around me helping in this mission.
Led 200-person org across six countries, managing €20M+ budget. Rationalised 11-product portfolio into Elements cloud-native suite, boosting cross-sell and NRR. Built customer-centric roadmap process, cutting feature lead-time and improving adoption.
Leasing product management function
Working as a member of the B2B Product Business management team with primary accountability area being our software development. R&D unit was responsible for both inhouse and oursourced product development for all B2B products of F-Secure. R&D team was in 3 countries and 5 locations, I grew the team by 40% and set up a more scaleable structure to major sites. We also advanced our transition to cloud as well as continuous delivery and integration.
Building product and managed service portfolio for F-Secure Cyber Security Services Business Unit.
Built F-Secure Freedome from an idea into material business. Launched Freedome VPN to 1M users in 12 months (NPS +60). Grew the team from 0 to 20+ people.
I started a program while reporting to CSO. With very limited resources and following the Lean Startup principles we didn't develop just solid base technology but also a consumer facing product in 8 months from nothing into sales. The team grew from 4 people to 15+ directly in my team plus we gradually started to liaison more with the rest of the company.
Director, Innovation and New Concepts New Concepts Team Mission: to identify and drive new product/concept innovation and development. Guide the selected concepts through all phases from idea to research to development and all the way to a first customer pilot project.
Innovations and New Concepts team manager Mission: to identify and drive new product/concept innovation and development. Guide the selected concepts through all phases from idea to research to development and all the way to a first customer pilot project.
Managed F-Secure's Appliance business and products. In charge of the Appliance based offering in general: products, services, logistics, pricing, supplier relationships, etc...
(ROMmon acquired by F-Secure)
Joined team of skilled programmers to steer product marketing, pre-sales, drive product requirements based on market demand. Enjoyed this start-up environment a lot, it also forced me to do alone lot of stuff and thought a great deal. Product had potential, Bonware unfortunately hit the IT bubble's burst and took a big hit.
Joined to research DVB/MHP platform and applications. Ended up managing development teams in Finland and in Lithuania.