Jukka Lempiäinen, President & CEO

Jukka Lempiäinen (M’02) was born in Helsinki, Finland, in 1968. He received his M.Sc., Lic.Tech. and Dr.Tech. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland, in 1993, 1998, and 1999, respectively. He is a senior partner and President of European Communications Engineering (ECE) Ltd. Before ECE Ltd he worked for Nokia for more than five years in different positions in the area of radio network planning. Altogether he has almost 15 years of experience in GSM based mobile network planning and consulting. Currently he is also a Professor at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. For his entire career, he has been concentrating on the radio planning of cellular networks. His main interests are to combine coverage and capacity related topics (topology planning in UMTS) and to adjust the performance of technical details like diversity, reception and GPRS traffic for the air interface. He is the author of two international books, several journals and conference papers, and he holds three patents. Dr. Lempiäinen is a URSI national board member, Finland.

Hans Ahnlund, Vice President

Hans Ahnlund was born in Porjus, Sweden in 1968. He received his M.Sc. (EE) degree from Lund University of Technology in 1994. He is Vice President and board member of European Communications Engineering. Before ECE Ltd he worked for Nokia for more than five years in different positions in the area of telecommunications. Altogether he has more than ten years of experience in the field of wireless telecommunications design and optimization, and international experience in radio access technologies like NMT, GSM/GPRS, UMTS and HSPA. He is one of the authors of the book 'UMTS Radio Network Planning, Optimisation and QoS Management'. He holds two patents in the wireless technology sector.

Risto Jurva Vice President

Risto Jurva was born in Tervola, Finland in 1966. He received his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Oulu, Finland in 1993. He is Vice president and an executive board member of European Communications Engineering (ECE) Ltd. He has previously worked for Nokia for eight years, holding various positions in radio network planning and optimisation. Currently he has 15 years of experience in mobile network planning and consulting, covering NMT, GSM/GPRS, UMTS and TETRA technologies. He is one of the authors of the book 'UMTS Radio Network Planning, Optimisation and QoS Management'. During his career he has gained experience in numerous international projects concentrating in analysing, troubleshooting and optimising mobile networks as well as in project management.

Jakub Borkowski Country Manager, President of ECE Poland

Jakub Borkowski was born in Szczecin, Poland in 1980. He received his M.Sc. and Dr.Tech. degrees, all in telecommunications from, Tampere University of Technology, Finland, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. He is Poland Country Manager and President of European Communications Engineering subsidary in Poland - ECE Poland Sp. z o.o. Currently, he also works as a trainer delivering professional courses globally. Before the current assignment, he worked over 8 years in different positions all within radio network planning and optimization field. He also spent three years at Tampere University of Technology as a scientist researcher in the area of UMTS topology planning and mobile positioning. He is the author of over 20 international publications in journals and conference proceedings.