We're an intelligent bunch
Valona is made up of experts, software developers, market analysts, content professionals, salespeople, problem solvers, and continuous improvers who share a common goal: We want to make every business decision insights-driven.

Here's our brag sheet…
Cutting-edge AI with decades of human expertise
Delivering unbeatable market and competitive insights to more than 500 organizations across the globe, empowering businesses to make insight-driven decisions and act on emerging trends, before they even break the news.
7 offices and 200 employees, worldwide
Valona pulls from more than two decades of experience and millions of human written business summaries, based on hundreds of thousands of trusted industry-specific sources, from global to local levels across markets worldwide in over 100 languages. All seamlessly translated into English in crystal clear formats, easily applied in winning strategy and decision-making.
A leader since 1999
Formerly known as M-Brain, we’ve been dedicated to serving over 350,000 business users and Fortune 500 companies like Goodyear, Inspire Brands, Bosch, Philips, and Henkel. Valona was acknowledged by Forrester in 2023 as the premier global platform for market and competitive intelligence.
Meet the management team
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Kimmo Havu
Chief Executive Officer -
Henna Pellonmaa
Chief Financial Officer -
Eetu Laaksonen
Chief Technology Officer -
Stuart Reynish
Chief Product Officer -
Kati Tammisto
Chief Marketing Officer -
Eric Lau
Chief Customer Officer -
Thomas Rideg
President, Americas -
Irene De Lorenzis
VP, UK -
Carsten Gayer
VP, Europe