Pasi Hurri

In 2001, Pasi Hurri, coupled with his expertise, background and a powerful team of Finnish technology professionals, established BaseN Corporation. Hurri is BaseN’s President & CEO. In his earlier days Hurri was Network Director for a large multinational enterprise, giving him valuable experience in both corporate and service provider worlds. He garnered his experience through practical work, but also had an underlying idea, a vision if you will, and that was to build a fault tolerant, yet versatile and distributed system for gathering very large amounts of data, and making it comprehensible for critical decision makers.

Most of Hurri's innovation and leadership qualities stem from his training in the Finnish Air Force, which by his own words, was the best school he has ever attended. He studied at the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki University of Technology. BaseN’s vision stems from Hurri’s background in the military, where he became acquainted with Clausewitz principles on the importance of having an accurate view of the situation at all times. Monitoring the Finnish airspace coherently with data coming from very different surveillance systems, from advanced long-range radars to solitary human observers at watchtowers was an interesting scenario that has intrigued him ever since.

Hurri began his commercial career in the Technology Department of Ahlstrom Corporation in Finland. During his 13 years there, Hurri played a significant role in leveraging and adapting the newest technologies for the company. After perfecting the global telecommunications network for the company, Hurri decided to accept his new challenge to lead the Network Operations Group at EUnet Finland. EUnet was the first ISP in Finland, later becoming part of the Dutch-based KPNQwest. Hurri served in several senior management positions at KPNQwest NV, including Vice President of the Engineering and Technology departments.