Futuremark Adds New Head of Mobile Business; Names Director of PC Operations
Saratoga, California and Espoo, Finland – September 19th, 2006 – Futuremark Corporation,
providers of world’s leading performance benchmarks and services to the PC and handheld
device industries announced today the appointment of Petri Talala as Vice President of Mobile
Business. He will report directly to Risto Vehvilainen, CEO of Futuremark. Futuremark also
announced today the promotion of Jukka Makinen to Director of PC Business Operations.
Jukka Makinen has been with Futuremark since 2004, in their Espoo, Finland office, fulfilling the
role of PC Project Manager and occupying a seat on their internal steering group. Makinen has
been able to develop internal programming processes instrumental to Futuremark’s successful
execution on numerous client projects and custom demos while overseeing the technical
development of PC benchmark products. In his new role, Jukka will directly manage all PC
projects, PC benchmarks and related development efforts, including management of the PC
Business unit technical personnel.
Petri Talala will be responsible for directing Futuremark’s global mobile business operations,
maintaining a focus on sales and marketing of Futuremark’s mobile/handheld Benchmark
Development Programs, handheld benchmark products and promoting Futuremark services in
the mobile sector including technology demos and performance analysis projects.
Talala has a distinguished career in the IT and Telecom fields, holding a number of executive
level positions and playing key roles building and developing businesses in those sectors. He
brings substantial experience in sales, marketing and business development to the role at
Futuremark, honed from his successes at leading telecom companies in North America and
Europe, including LM Ericsson and Tellabs Inc. As Sales Director of SSH Communications
Security Corp. Talala was responsible for SSH’s UK and Ireland business. His extensive
qualifications will benefit Futuremark’s business developing the mobile industry’s most respected
and broadly adopted hardware performance benchmarks.
“Futuremark has met with much success in the mobile and handheld markets. Their reputation
within the industry, combined with their assets of benchmark products, professional services, and
vast experience in graphics hardware and technology assures future successes in the mobile
market” said Talala. “As we develop further business in the mobile and handheld market, I’m
excited to help Futuremark meet its objectives for new growth while supporting its current mobile
industry partners in their goals of delivering the best performing, next generation graphics
technologies.”
“Futuremark’s business across all our segments continues to grow and expand internationally,
enabling us to secure significant business opportunities and build top level partners in the mobile
and PC industries. Petri’s and Jukka’s appointment serve these goals well” said Tero Sarkkinen,
Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing. “With the addition of Petri to the Futuremark
team, we are better positioned than ever before to respond to the needs of our customers and
deliver the best performance benchmarking tools, programs and services in the mobile and PC
spaces.”
About Futuremark(r) Corporation
Futuremark (r) Corporation is the leading provider of performance analysis software products for
PCs and smartphones, and professional services including technology demos, performance
analysis services and data research projects. Futuremark(r) is known around the world for its
benchmark products, including the 3DMark(r) and PCMark(r) Series and SPMark(tm) (with more
than 30 million copies distributed worldwide) and value-added services powered by a database of
over 13 million real life benchmarking results from over 3 million registered users. Futuremark(r)
maintains offices in Saratoga, California and Helsinki, Finland. For more information, please visit
http://www.futuremark.com.