Overview

Gender

male

Ari has a 16 year track record of successful product launches and quota-exceeding sales engineering in life science, technology, and pharmaceutical companies. Prior to Knome, Mr. Kiirikki was Director of Pharmaceutical Sponsorship at CancerSource.com, where he secured significant site sponsorship from companies such as OrthoBiotech, Amgen, SKB, and Pharmacia—helping to build CancerSource into one of the Internet’s most successful commercial cancer information websites.

Prior to CancerSource, Ari was responsible for Sales and Business Development at HyperSoft Information Systems and led European Sales and Channel Development for DYS Analytics. Earlier in his career Ari worked as a pharmaceutical sales executive at Novartis and Quintiles (NovaQuest). He is a graduate of Brandeis University and Suffolk University Law School.