Jussi J - zeizei

CEO

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden32 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Decades of experience in digital transformation.
  • Expert in navigating complex cybersecurity challenges.
  • Proven track record in strategic resilience and operational excellence.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with extensive experience in strategic consulting and digital transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

CybersecurityStrategic ThinkingSecurity ManagementInformation Security

Other Skills

Strategic ResilienceAI-based assessment toolOperational excellenceScenario-based performance measurementCold case problem-solvingMosaic-style methodsAnticipationAdaptabilityAI-based assessmentOrganizational viabilitySecurityStrategic consultingDigital securityIntelligence-driven servicesTransformative product development

About

Strategic Range A trusted strategic thinker, advisor, and pragmatic innovator with a track record of delivering exceptional results across the full spectrum — from agile startups to multinational entities. Fluent in legacy, current, emerging, and disruptive technologies and approaches; equally fluent in when not to deploy them. Depth Through Roles Individual contributor, leadership, and global consulting assignments have built a layered understanding of how organizations actually learn - and where performance shifts when the primary touchpoint is cybersecurity, with all its capabilities and the whole. Complex challenges and opportunities brought under control through both independent and collaborative work. Stability as a Strategic Choice Wide range of products and services. Forward-thinking solutions balanced by the recognition that not all change is inevitable - sometimes stability is the strategic choice. Strategic resilience over plain resilience: retaining options so that good security and leadership can unfold. Cybersecurity as Primary Context, Not a Limit Cybersecurity is the primary context, where suitable knowledge is utilized or created for an evolving universe - but the domain does not impose limits. Creative problem-solving challenging convention; transformative results that prove impactful work does not require excessive budgets or headcount. Intellectual property developed, organizations influenced across the entire scale. Seasoned Judgement Across Cycles Decades of digital transformation — from pre-internet enterprise security to today’s AI-driven threat landscape - produces judgement that only emerges from living through multiple cycles and navigating complexity without disorientation. This informs a holistic approach and a deep appreciation for monozukuri: the disciplined craft of making things properly with logic without refactoring. Arriving farther, faster. Catalyst · Board Member · Flanéur Vertical catalyst for individuals and organizations. Natural second-order change and Learning 2 flanéur. Board service in Finland, Sweden, and the USA - including a successful exit from start to acquisition. Articles: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ju755/recent-activity/articles/ Open to meaningful conversations about opportunities, and challenges.

Experience

32 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
12 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
32 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Career break

Personal goal pursuit

Nov 2025Present · 7 mos

  • Advisory Board
  • Serving on a select few Advisory Boards globally
  • Research & Development
  • Developed a high-level flexible framework: Strategic Resilience – High Reliability Harmonizing, focused on anticipation, adaptability, and turning threats into opportunities before they become either across tech and non-tech environments.
  • Created an AI-based assessment tool for organizational & functional viability, emphasizing meta-capabilities that apply regardless of structure or context. All the "other" work happens inside assessed system and thus can be a turning point if things succeed or not. Applicable to e.g security, business, and can be used to assess what kind of roles company needs etc
  • Authoring a practical guide (inspired by "The Goal" and "The Phoenix Project") for transforming ritualistic security work into operational excellence - bridging gaps between e.g security, DevOps, leadership, and complexity.
  • Designing further a novel scenario-based performance measurement system - initially for cybersecurity exercises now exploring AI-NLP integration for broader decision support and ethnographic insights.
  • Engaged in “cold case” problem-solving in infosec/cybersecurity: reframing persistent, unsolved issues but which still are worked on to enable real progress, beyond assumed solutions.
  • Various proof-of-concept and design projects, both technical and non-technical, with practical application and focus on simplifying complexity without oversimplification (simplism)
  • Developing mosaic-style methods for adjusting and integrating diverse ideas into practical reality. Many things, e.g randomness, chaos, security, incident response, application security etc
  • etc...
  • see some of the outcomes on https://www.linkedin.com/in/ju755/recent-activity/articles/
  • Education
  • Deep reading and writing: exploring technology, organizational design & development, leadership, strategies, better thinking and complexity etc
Strategic ResilienceAI-based assessment toolOperational excellenceScenario-based performance measurementCold case problem-solvingMosaic-style methods+2

Tomtom

Global Cyber Security Leader at CISO office

Dec 2020Sep 2025 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Global role

  • Global role. Safety and Security Unit. (GRC, 3rd party, Security architecture, product and platform security, security operations SOC, Vuln mgmt, awareness and education )
  • Chief Security Officer / Chief Information Security Officer - CISO - Office. Office's LT/MT.
  • Staff Engineering Leadership Team
Security architectureVulnerability managementSecurity operationsCybersecuritySecurity Management

Ikea

Group Global Information Security Advisor

Feb 2017Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Global role

  • Global role. Various roles/areas around and in security.
  • e.g one role was being globally responsible for IKEA Home Smart security in a great team of Home Smart business area and partners. My defined approach to security was vastly different than usually heard and seen on talks, blogs, books etc and could be described transformative yet collaborative to get results - plus timeless and context agnostic. It is not about specific tools and rituals
  • 2019 morphed into (Group) CISO Office. Synthesis and Analysis adaptor and creator. Global role as well
  • Group CISO Office. LT/MT team.
Global security strategyCollaborative security approachesCybersecuritySecurity Management

Celsus advisory group

Director, Digital (Cyber/Info Security) Alchemy

Jan 2017Present · 9 yrs 5 mos · Global

  • The Celsus Advisory Group and its team of cross-domain, multidisciplinary experts offer discreet and intelligence-driven strategic consulting services. Our specialty is assisting both the public and private sectors in negotiating the complex divide between digital and kinetic realms--to protect your business, assets and people.
  • https://celsus.io
  • https://archetypesandobjectives.substack.com
  • Cold sales and marketing contacts will be ignored and blocked - they are negative to you. Not interested on any capacity. Moreover, I have not and never will give consent to receive those.
Strategic consultingDigital securityIntelligence-driven servicesCybersecurityStrategic Thinking

Various companies

Member of the Board of Advisors

May 2002Present · 24 yrs 1 mo · United States, Sweden, Finland

  • Various Advisory Board memberships in software and services - areas. Mostly around information/cyber security and related areas.
  • Example about a succesful exit in North-America, an already ended position from 2002 - 2015:
  • https://www.rapid7.com/products/appspider/
  • https://www.rapid7.com/about/press-releases/rapid7-acquisition-nt-objectives/
Advisory servicesCybersecurityStrategic Thinking

Nt objectives, inc. usa

Technical Advisory Board

Jan 2002Jan 2015 · 13 yrs · United States

  • A transformational into its category, innovative, commercial scanner. Research and development, intellectual property. #innovation #product #productdevelopmnet #startup #start-up. #Exit in North-Americe:
  • https://www.rapid7.com/products/appspider/
  • https://www.rapid7.com/about/press-releases/rapid7-acquisition-nt-objectives/
Research and developmentIntellectual propertyCybersecurityStrategic Thinking

Digital equipment corporation (usa)

System Specialist

Jan 1997Jan 1998 · 1 yr · Finland

  • Outsourcing Management Services unit.
  • Troubleshooting, Security consulting, problem solving - team, sys admin for a global Windows - and Exchange network. OpenVMS/Windows/Alpha etc.
TroubleshootingSecurity consultingCybersecurityInformation Security

Flaneured past

Security flaneur and Craft holder, Tinkerer, Observing and Absorbing, Independent thinker

Jan 1994Present · 32 yrs 5 mos · various

  • Building a transformative commercial product (USA) and exit via acquisition
  • Defining consulting services and ensuring quality
  • Responsible for quality for MSSP as internal employee or actual MSSP employee
  • Novel approaches to many things, exceeding what was available and thought to be possible
  • Sustainable solutions in areas where commoditized approaches require increasingly frequent changes
  • Very varying contexts adapting, shaping and creating.
  • Speaking assignments in closed and public events, sample below
  • BlueHat 2005, Redmond USA - https://web.archive.org/web/20061112090016/http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2005/10/blue_hat_report.html
  • Boyd and Beyond Quantico, USA 2010 - https://web.archive.org/web/20110723020616/http://www.lesc.net/blog/intersecting-ideas-cross-disciplineshellipand-taking-boydrsquos-theories-beyond
  • Divia Innovations and the Outcome Economy https://web.archive.org/web/20160821035833/http://www.divia.fi/divia/tapahtuma/divia-2016-innovations-and-outcome-economy
  • Forrester EMEA Security Forum, London,MS TechEd Barcelona, TechDays Finland, Infosec Europe, T2 Finland, Sec-t.org, JAMK, Aalto Executive Education, Hanken School of Economics,Air Force Academy, CyCon.
  • Contributing author Hacking Exposed Windows, 3rd edition from McGraw-Hill (USA)
Transformative product developmentConsulting servicesQuality assuranceCybersecurityStrategic Thinking

Previous places

Cyber Security Mgr, Dir of Special Ops, Chief Advisor Enterprise Risk & Security, Lead Consultant

Jan 1994Jan 2016 · 22 yrs · Global roles

  • Consulting internationally, also living abroad, Managing global networks, Rapid troubleshooting, responsible for quality of deliverables, Managed Security Services provider lead consultant and Director of Special Operationss, etc etc at previous places (Digital Equipment Corporation, Nokia, OP Financial Group, Managed Security Services Providers etc), Financial, Telco, Defence, Health, 0day, Strategy etc etc on many countries, many levels. On consulting companies codifying new assignments to others, and ensuring quality of delivery.
  • Nokia Ventures - innovation, intellectual property, product and service development
  • Also, as a hobby: a sysadmin for a LAMP site with 80 000 users and thinking new and suitable ways to achieve more.
ConsultingQuality assuranceCybersecurityStrategic Thinking

Education

Trustforte

Bachelor of Science - BS

Jan 2013Jan 2013

RPKK – Raahen Porvari- ja Kauppakoulu – Raahe Business College

Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA — Computer Science

Jan 1992Jan 1994

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