Ilkka Rahnasto is President at Avanci Broadcast, having joined its sibling company Marconi in 2018.

Prior to Marconi, Ilkka spent more than 20 years at Nokia, first leading the Intellectual Property function at the time when Nokia was the world’s largest mobile phone company, later transforming the Nokia IP organization into a successful business.

Ilkka has a PhD in law from the University of Helsinki, Finland and an LLM from George Washington University, US. He has been among the IAM Patent Strategy 300 for several years, and in 2017 he ranked #1 in IAM’s annual Top 40 Market Makers.

A Finnish citizen, Ilkka is located in Dallas, Texas.