Chris Betts
Strategic advisor
Former General Counsel of Grab and former partner at Skadden in Hong Kong. Two decades in cross-border capital markets, from Hong Kong IPOs to Grab’s US$40 bn Nasdaq listing.
Team
Three founders, one system
Selling industrial systems, designing heat systems and running biological production rarely sit in one company. At Avans they sit at one table, which is what turning data centre waste heat into profit takes.
Founders
Building the concept and the company
Jani Vänskä
Co-founder & CEO
Twenty years of industrial business in Asia; Valmet Oy and Andritz AG.
Leads sales, heat offtake agreements, project companies and funding.
Dr. Joonas Mustonen
Co-founder · Energy systems
PhD in physics from the University of Helsinki, where he worked in the Electronics Research Laboratory.
Leads the thermal design of the Heat Hub and the simulation that sizes each site: heat balance, temperature tiers, flows and storage.
Dr. Harri Mäkivuokko
Co-founder · Bio-production & partners
PhD in biotechnology, and more than seven years as CEO at ProAgria, working with Finnish farms and rural businesses.
Leads the Heat Hub's biological production lines (biogas, biochar, aquaculture) and the agreements with partner technology companies.
Technical team
Developing the solution
Jarmo Järvinen
Hardware & systems integration
Inventor and builder of container units for biogas and pyrolysis; leads hardware assembly in Finland.
Emil Järvinen
Product development
Inventor specialising in electrical systems; develops container units for biogas and pyrolysis.
Patrik Kuosmanen
Software & DevOps
Software engineer who builds Avans's software stack: backend services and APIs, user interfaces, data models and the database, reporting and alerts, and the CI/CD and DevOps pipeline that ships it.
Jere Hyvönen
Measurement electronics & instrumentation
Doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki's Electronics Research Laboratory, and co-founder and lead engineer of Acouspin Oy. Designs high-power electronics and measurement systems; co-author of 11 peer-reviewed journal articles, including in Review of Scientific Instruments and Scientific Reports.
Advisor
Strategic advisor
Next step
Talk to the founders
Tell us about your site, your project or the role you are interested in.
What happens next
- 1A 30-minute call: heat, possible users, timeline
- 2Together we check fit, schedule and funding options
- 3You get a fixed-price pre-study proposal, credited against the system delivery