Timo Ropponen

Background

About Timo Ropponen

At Spinverse, Timo helps companies to grow and renew themselves through innovations in new products and services, processes and business models. He is working on open innovation multiparty R&D programs for corporations and SME companies that are seeking radical technology and business innovations. Timo has over 20 years experience in power and automation industry, telecommunications and organisation consulting in R&D, manufacturing engineering and machinery. In addition, he has been responsible for designing and managing several strategic leadership training programs for a global R&D organization. He has carried out cultural transformation programs in large corporations as well. Timo has done post-doc research on robotics in Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, MITI, Japan. He has studied and done research at University of California Santa Barbara. Timo holds a D.Sc.(Tech) degree at Aalto University (aka Helsinki University of Technology), where he is currently docent in mechatronics.