Jyri is the co-founder and chairman of Jaiku, the category-definining microblogging platform that brings people closer together by enabling them to share short updates about what they're doing from the Web, desktop, and mobile phones. Jyri sold Jaiku to Google in October 2007. Jyri has over a decade of experience in the mobile services technology industry. He has held senior level positions at such leading companies as Nokia and Satama Interactive, and co-founded a Web-based job search engine. He holds patents in remote content delivery and user interface for personal communications devices. He has led conferences and written extensively on mobile technology and social networking. Jyri holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology from the University of Helsinki and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Lancaster University Management School.