Tomi Poutanen

Tomi Poutanen biography

Tomi is the CEO of Signal 1. Tomi co-founded of Layer 6 which was acquired in 2018 by TD Bank Group, where he served as SVP and Chief AI Officer. Prior to Layer 6, Tomi founded three technology companies with exits to Microsoft and Yahoo!. Tomi is a co-founder of the Vector Institute, a world leading academic research institute for deep learning. 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.