Our Team
The Consensus Capital team brings together some of the most innovative thinkers in leading digital transformation. Our wealth of experience in digital industries creates a synergy between us that enables us to offer the right support and advice.
Matti Liukas
CEO of Consensus Capital
Corporate Management at Adecco and Capgemini
CERN User Status
Digital Transformation background
eMBA lecturer at University of Lausanne
We work with people, not projects, and that’s why it is important for us to partner with like-minded people that really want to see technology work for all of us. One of our priorities is to be actively involved in the global blockchain community that shapes the tech industry.
Matti has over 15 years of experience in digital innovation and IT Management. With a background in Industrial Management from Helsinki Technical School, Matti boasts a wealth of experience on the technical side as well as in relationship management and business development.
Matti creates sparks as an ecosystem builder, who fosters collaboration with R&D partners/academic institutions and who is passionate about guiding tech teams at any stage in their development. Matti actively contributes to the management of the companies in which the Consensus Capital invests, while also shaping the minds of MBA students at the University of Lausanne as a visiting professor.
Matti’s role in companies such as Capgemini and Adecco place him in the heart of the innovative entrepreneurship space. This allows him to use his experience for identifying and managing new investments using disruptive and emerging technologies, like blockchain, to influence and drive the adoption of real solutions.
Areas of Interest: Relationship Management, Digital Transformations, Transition/ChangeManagement, Implementation and Deployment Management, Knowledge Transfer Processes, Distributed Delivery Models, Internet Applications.
Matti is the CEO of Consensus Capital with a strong background in digital transformation. His experience at Capgemini and Adecco, his CERN User Status, and his position as eMBA lecturer at the University of Lausanne place him at the heart of the innovative entrepreneurship space.
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Pietari (Pietu) Kauttu
Current positions of trust: CERN Finance Committee Delegate for Finland in close collaboration with Helsinki Institute of Physics and Academy of Finland. Chairman of Ruuti R&D Oy. Previously worked for CERN and Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation. R&D&I fundraising experts, raised over €15m of public R&D&I grants to date.
The expansion to techno-scientific areas is a mandate close to my heart. Developing key collaboration opportunities is something I seek in my day-to-day life. I believe Consensus Capital has the capacity to shape innovation management and make a real difference for our entrepreneurs as well as the scientific community; being the bridge between those worlds is a privilege and an honor.
Pietu is the force that binds high-tech and commercialization within the company, a strong contributor to the advisory support offered to partners and investments.
He is the Head of Operations at Consensus Capital, where his expertise in finance and business development for high-tech startups, and his experience in R&D&I, where he built sustainable collaboration between public and private technology businesses, makes him the perfect match to manage the day to day challenges of an investment company.
Pietari has over ten years of experience in high technology & research field fundraising, business development, strategy advisory services, tendering and administration. He is the chief of synergies that make Consensus Capital unique amongst investment firms.
Pietu regularly shares his expertise in business-research collaboration building at CERN, University of Helsinki, Academy of Finland, Business Finland, The European Commission, and other recognized research infrastructures, institutions, and R&D&I funding bodies.
Specialties: Specialties: Building collaborations, business development, key account management, high tech and research administration, fundraising, procurement management, project management, knowledge transfer processes and strategy advisory services.
Head of Operations at Consensus Capital, Pietu binds high-tech and commercialization within the company and is the chief of synergies that make it unique among investment firms.
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