Peter Vesterbacka
Founder of FinEst Bay Area and Co-Founder of SlushThe man who turned a bird into a global superstar and helped create the world’s leading startup and investor conference, Slush.
As Chief Marketing Officer at Rovio, Peter Vesterbacka helped build Angry Birds into one of the world’s most recognized brands, a shining example of how Nordic creativity can captivate an entire planet. He was also one of the co-founders of Slush, which has grown into one of the world’s leading meeting places for startups, investors, and technology entrepreneurs.
But Vesterbacka did not stop at gaming and technology. In 2018, he founded FinEst Bay Area with the vision of connecting Finland and Estonia into a powerful innovation hub. At the same time, he is driving one of Europe’s most ambitious infrastructure projects: an approximately 100-kilometre railway tunnel between Helsinki and Tallinn, with the potential to transform two capital cities into a single metropolitan region.
Vesterbacka is the entrepreneur who thinks big, moves fast, and never asks for permission to keep dreaming bigger.
