Robert is the CEO of Saari Chocolate and Scanfert’s Head of Business Development. He takes after his father’s knack for entrepreneurship and thoroughly mapped processes, coming from an engineering background. He’s been involved with Scanfert his whole life, ever since his days as a kid spending time in the clinics, to later doing his bachelor’s thesis in one of the company’s clinics in Russia, as well as working in the hospitals.
Robert graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Tampere University of Applied Sciences in 2013, with a thesis about Functional MRI (imaging, research and analysis), following his father’s footsteps. Later, he got a Master’s degree from Aalto University (Helsinki), specializing in product design and development.
Earlier in his career, Robert was part of a teaching team and crew at Aalto University, in Helsinki; worked as a Mechanical Designer at Innokas Medical, playing an essential role in the development of a medical device for the customer. After that, he was the leading mechanical designer at Pexray, a tech start-up, spearheading a team of mechanical engineers both in Finland and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with the mission to create a portable x-ray imaging device for security use. Robert is a lifetime tennis grinder, loves to sail, and is addicted to hydrofoiling, or any other board sports. Last but not least, he’s passionate about making, and of course eating, chocolate.