Toby White is a founder and seasoned technology executive with 15 years of experience building and scaling product and engineering organizations across cybersecurity, industrial software, and information services. He served as F‑Secure’s CTO after leading its 120‑person consumer R&D organization and has driven digital engineering and platform strategy at Wärtsilä and GlobalData. Toby combines deep technical roots (a PhD in theoretical chemistry from Cambridge) with a track record of founding, growing, and exiting startups—having built Timetric from incubation to acquisition—and now leads ArcticRex. He excels at turning research and data into commercial products, orchestrating global teams of hundreds, and aligning technology and business strategy to generate significant revenue. Based in Espoo, Finland, he brings an unusually research‑driven perspective to product leadership, often translating academic software and scientific data practices into resilient, customer‑facing systems.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MChem Chemistry, MChem Chemistry at University of Oxford
PhD Theoretical Chemistry, PhD Theoretical Chemistry at University of Cambridge
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