KARI MAIKKOLA
TELIA COMPANY
KARI MAIKKOLA
HEAD OF DATA CENTRE SOLUTIONS
Kari Maikkola leads Telia’ s data centre business, overseeing operations for enterprise and public-sector clients across the Nordic region. With a diverse ICT career spanning more than two decades, Kari transitioned from the early new-media sector to industrial-scale infrastructure, focusing exclusively on data centres since 2013. He currently directs strategy for Telia’ s flagship Helsinki facility – the largest open data centre in the Nordics – steering its evolution into a sustainable hub for hyperscale AI and liquid-cooled computing. telia. fi 7