About Us

Bringing a human-first approach to complicated data problems

Solving complicated data problems runs in our DNA.

Our founding team has worked on some of the most complex data projects in the world over the past 30 years.

And they identified a striking gap between the realities of being data-driven and the tools they relied on to achieve this.

Most solutions had complicated UIs, legacy feature sets, and ignored the ways in which modern data products and teams can work.

Often the tools dictated how data projects were done, resulting in years of additional work and higher budgets to get results.
So, in 2018 we began to develop a modern, cloud-based solution that supports data products and data teams in a profitable way.

50+ enterprise customers later, Ellie is evolving into a data management tool that brings value to even the most difficult data projects.
Our rapid success was followed by a €2.5 million seed funding round, led by Newion and Crowberry Capital.

Today ellie.ai is being developed by a 20+ team of experts, supporting customers all over the world.

With every release, we continue on our mission to help the largest organizations in the world get true value from their data.

Read more about the latest developments in Ellie on our blogs.
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Ellie’s Key Numbers

50+
Enterprise Customers
6000
Users worldwide
10,000+
data projects in production

Meet Our Team

LEADERSHIP
CEO
Johannes Hovi
Executive Chairman
Mikko Välimäki
CTO
Jari “Jaffa” Jaanto
CPO
Juha Korpela
Head of Sales
Markus Mäkelä
Head of Prototyping
Stan Dmitriev
growing team
Software Architect
Mikael Lavi
Software Developer
Imran Pavel
Software Developer
Minh Nguyen
Software Developer
Thao Nguyen
Software Developer
Hugo Fournier
UX/UI Designer
Ilia Popov
QA Engineer
Diluka Karunathilake
Software Developer
Phong Tran
Sales Development Manager
Hayden Signore
advisors
Ari Hovi
Steve Hoberman
LEADERSHIP
CEO
Johannes Hovi
1 of 7
LEADERSHIP
Executive Chairman
Mikko Välimäki
2 of 7
LEADERSHIP
CTO
Jari “Jaffa” Jaanto
3 of 7
LEADERSHIP
CSO
Hannu Järvi
4 of 7
LEADERSHIP
Chief Design Officer
Pirita Paananen
5 of 7
LEADERSHIP
Head of Sales
Markus Mäkelä
6 of 7
LEADERSHIP
Head of Marketing
Stan Dmitriev
7 of 7
growing team
Software Architect
Mikael Lavi
1 of 9
growing team
Software Developer
Imran Pavel
2 of 9
growing team
Software Developer
Minh Nguyen
3 of 9
growing team
Software Developer
Thao Nguyen
4 of 9
growing team
Software Developer
Hugo Fournier
5 of 9
growing team
UX/UI Designer
Ilia Popov
6 of 9
growing team
QA Engineer
Diluka Karunathilake
7 of 9
growing team
Software Engineer
Phong Tran
8 of 9
growing team
Sales Development Manager
Hayden Signore
9 of 9
advisors
Ari Hovi
1 of 2
advisors
Steve Hoberman
2 of 2

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