Ilkka Rahnasto is President at both Avanci Broadcast and Avanci Solutions, having joined its sibling company Marconi in 2018. Avanci Solutions is focusing on custom licensing solutions to meet the needs of individual stakeholders (licensees and/or licensees) and Avanci Broadcast is the licensing platform for the next generation televisions technologies implemented primarily in North America and South Korea (ATSC 3).

Prior to Marconi, Ilkka spent more than 20 years at Nokia, first leading the Intellectual Property function at the time when Nokia was the world’s largest mobile phone company, later transforming the Nokia IP organization into a successful business.

Ilkka has a PhD in law from the University of Helsinki, Finland and an LLM from George Washington University, US. He has been among the IAM Patent Strategy 300 for several years, and in 2017 he ranked #1 in IAM’s annual Top 40 Market Makers.

A Finnish citizen, Ilkka is located in Dallas, Texas.