Company Vision

Prior to joining Helsinki GameWorks, Kalle was a Senior VP at Rovio managing all external game development including titles such as Angry Birds Epic and Go!. Prior to starting in game development in 2007, Kalle worked for nine years in games journalism.

Samuli is the founder of Remedy Entertainment, Fathammer and Recoil Games. He focuses on finding the best people and the smartest money to execute the company's business vision. Samuli's biggest talent is inspiring people.

Christophe started his game industry career in 2003 as lead programmer and CEO of Inphiny, developing mobile games. In 2007, Christophe joined Digital Chocolate in Helsinki and was eventually promoted to Technical Director of Client Engineering.

Toni started his career at RedLynx as a graphic artist but soon found himself working on level design and eventually fully moving into the design discipline, his greatest passion. His latest project was Remedy's Agents of Storm mobile free-to-play game.

Mikko joined Fathammer in 2004 and was soon promoted to the role of art director. Later he worked at Recoil Games as 3D environment artist. His latest gig was at Remedy, working on the free-to-play mobile game Agents of Storm.

Johannes, aka Jussi, is a versatile generalist programmer who started his games career already in 2000. Like many in the HGW team, Jussi also worked at Recoil Games. He then moved to Denmark to work at IO Interactive on Hitman: Absolution and the engine behind it.

Mika started in the game industry in 2000 by founding a game studio with Jussi. Mika has primarily worked on artificial intelligence, character animation and gameplay at companies such as RedLynx, Recoil Games, IO Interactive and Guerrilla Games.

Sylvain founded his own game studio Coyote Software in 2004. Later he joined Smackdown Productions as CTO and worked on both console and mobile games. In 2012, Sylvain moved to Finland to work at Rovio as Lead Programmer and Technical Director of Games.

Jouni has been working on physics and graphics rendering technology throughout his career. At Futuremark he worked on both desktop and mobile platforms and was particularly focused on low-level technology development.

Mikko has been creating many forms of 2D and 3D digital art for a long time, first at Bugbear working on triple-A racing games. Mikko then co-founded Recoil Games and worked on an ambitious first person action-adventure and later a gravity defying side-scroller.

Eetu has been focusing on technical art including effects, shading and rendering. Half artist, half coder, he knows the most intimate secrets of pixels and polygons. He has worked at Futuremark, Undo, Rovio Entertainment and Remedy Entertainment.