Tomi Poutanen

CEO

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Tomi Poutanen

Signal 1 AI

CEO

Tomi is the CEO and a co-founder of Signal 1. Before Signal 1, Tomi co-founded Layer 6 which was acquired in 2018 by TD Bank, where he served as SVP and Chief AI Officer. Tomi’s two previous companies sold to Microsoft and Yahoo!, where Tomi was an early builder of AI systems. Tomi is a co-founder of the Vector Institute, a world leading academic research institute for deep learning, and a co–founder and Partner of Radical Ventures, a leading AI-focused venture fund. He is a founding fellow at the Creative Destruction Lab, the world’s largest AI venture accelerator. Tomi holds an MSc in Computer Engineering and an MBA from the University of Toronto.