Leadership
The people wholead HardpointAI.
A small team across Vantaa, London and Stockholm, building EdgeOS, its models and the nodes that carry it.
Illustration · EdgeOS over the coast
01 · Team
Leadership
01Joni NiskalaFounder and CEOMore than 20 years deploying autonomous and tactical communications systems around the world. Mechatronics engineering and business degrees. Second Lieutenant (reserve), Finnish Defence Forces.
02Anders PetterssonCo-founder and CCOMore than 30 years leading global ICT, telecom, automotive and defence organisations. Previously CEO of a company that is today part of the Saab group. Engineering and business degrees.
03Talha AhmadCo-founder and CTOFounded and led an AI company: multimodal AI that turns raw imaging into structured output inside the operator's own workflow, on premise, zero-trust and audited. Agentic systems. MSc, biomedical imaging.
02 · How we lead
Four things we hold to.
How the three of us run HardpointAI.
- 01Models, software and hardware at one table.
- 02Every piece of work has a named owner.
- 03We label what runs today and what comes next.
- 04What fails in the field is fixed in days.
03 · Governance
Advisers
- Advisers
- Building depth in defence procurement, military and ISR doctrine, secure systems and export control.
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