Heikki Vesanto

Heikki Vesanto is manager, GIS analytics, at LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

Vesanto manages a team of data scientists working on a large variety of projects from ETL workflows to statistical modeling and innovative R&D.

He has an MA with honors from the University of Glasgow in geography and history and a MSc in geoinformatics from the University of Helsinki.

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