NestAI has appointed Juhapekka Niemi as Vice President of Product. Niemi joins as our adaptive operating system NestOS scales across European defence programmes and partner ecosystems. As the platform expands rapidly across programmes and customer environments, strengthening product leadership becomes increasingly critical to that growth.

Niemi has extensive technical experience from large software platforms and complex embedded products. Most recently Niemi was responsible for platform product leadership at Qt Company, where he rebuilt product strategy around ecosystem growth and new industry verticals, scaling the business from 5M€ to over 200M€ in revenue. Prior to Qt, he spent seven years at Nokia Mobile Phones in global technology leadership and innovation roles.

"NestOS is expanding rapidly across European defence programmes and partner ecosystems. That pace requires product leadership that has done this before. JP has built a platform ecosystem from the ground up. That experience is exactly what NestOS needs right now," said Peter Sarlin, founder and CEO of NestAI.

"NestOS has the architectural foundations that serious platform products need. My focus is on making sure the product organisation, roadmap, and customer reality stay aligned as the platform scales across programmes and partner ecosystems," said Juhapekka Niemi.

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About NestAI

NestAI is a European AI lab for defence delivering the adaptive operating system for modern battlefield operations.

We develop adaptive intelligence for unmanned and command systems: AI that continuously learns from operational data and adapts to changing conditions. NestOS, our open modular platform, keeps capability evolution under sovereign European control.

Founded by Peter Sarlin, whose previous company Silo AI became Europe's largest AI acquisition, NestAI brings together more than 150 leading engineers and scientists. Our partners include leading European defence forces and industry partners like  the Finnish Defence Forces, Nokia, and Patria.