Team

The team that navigates the AI era with you

Starmap AI's experts combine strategic vision, business and product experience, and a deep understanding of AI and its human impact.

Kalervo Aho

Kalervo Aho

AI johtamisen mentori

Kalervo Aho helps organizations turn AI-related change into practice safely, systematically, and with respect for people. He has over 15 years of diverse experience in entrepreneurship, software development, consulting, HR, and leadership. This combination gives him a strong ability to understand AI transformation from the perspectives of technology, business, and people’s work. Kalervo’s particular strength lies in leading AI adoption in a human-centered way that builds trust. He helps organizations identify how AI can be implemented so that it does not remain a separate technology experiment, but becomes a sustainable part of everyday work, decision-making, and organizational culture. Kalervo has practical experience with a wide range of AI platforms and has built his own applications using AI-assisted programming. In addition to his technical understanding, he has strong experience in people leadership, competence development, and organizational change. This makes him a natural partner in situations where utilizing AI requires not only technical solutions, but also trust-building, clear communication, and employee engagement. Kalervo focuses especially on how AI transformation can be carried out safely and responsibly — and on how organizations already using AI can be led in a sustainable way. He helps management understand how AI changes work content, competence requirements, responsibilities, and workload. The key is to ensure that the use of AI increases the impact and flow of work without leading to uncontrolled workload, unclear roles, or AI burnout.

Timur Kulbaev

Timur Kulbaev

Senior AI Consultant & Mentor

Timur Kubaev brings deep practical expertise in AI agents, automation, and agentic software development to Starmap AI. He helps business leaders see how AI can be used in concrete ways to automate workflows, prototype new solutions, and develop business operations. Timur has built AI agents and automation systems designed to reduce manual work and free up teams’ time for more meaningful tasks. His expertise covers the full journey from idea to implementation: identifying use cases, technical planning, development, deployment, training, and continuous improvement. As an AI mentor for senior executives, Timur helps leaders understand what AI agents and AI-assisted programming truly make possible. His vibe-coding workshops make AI tangible: participants see and experience for themselves how quickly new ideas can be turned into functional digital solutions.

Kaisa Castagna

Kaisa Castagna

AI johtamisen mentori

Kaisa Castagna helps companies lead the AI transformation in a human-centered, clear, and sustainable way. She combines over 20 years of experience in B2B technology companies, marketing, sales, brand building, recruitment, and people leadership. Kaisa’s perspective on AI is strongly practical and leadership-driven: how to make AI a genuine part of everyday work, how to engage employees in the change, how to build trust, and how to ensure that AI adoption does not lead to unclear roles, increased workload, or AI burnout. At Starmap AI, Kaisa supports executives and managers in situations where AI is changing ways of working, competence requirements, and organizational culture. She helps companies build operating models where AI supports people — rather than replacing human thinking, interaction, or good leadership.

Marko Torpo

Marko Torpo

AI mentori

Marko Torpo combines the practical application of artificial intelligence, software development, business development, and people leadership in a rare and distinctive way. He has long and diverse experience from the IT, telecom, and fintech sectors, as well as from expert, product, business leadership, and managing director roles. Marko’s strength lies in his ability to make AI understandable and practical also for leaders and organizations for whom AI is not a technical project, but a transformation of business, work, and competitiveness. He helps companies identify where AI can genuinely improve processes, create new customer value, strengthen products and services, and open up entirely new business opportunities. Marko has a background in software design and product development leadership, and he has personally built several applications using AI-assisted programming. He understands at a practical level how modern AI tools, agents, and AI-based development platforms can be used to rapidly build ideas, prototypes, services, and business models. Thanks to his leadership and executive search background, Marko also approaches AI from the perspective of people, capabilities, and organizational culture. He helps management understand how AI changes work roles, decision-making, competence requirements, and cognitive workload — and how organizations should be led so that AI increases productivity without undermining employee well-being.

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