What is Codento?
Codento is one of the fastest-growing IT consultancies in the Nordics, with a strategic vision to be the leading Google Cloud partner in the region.
We help leaders AI Equip and transform their businesses toward autonomy using our Self-Driving Enterprise blueprint. Through Codento’s fast lane, bold Nordic organizations can build an AI-agent-driven enterprise to achieve stronger competitive advantage, concrete business results, and exponential growth.
Innovated by Codento, this execution model is built on three superior areas of expertise: 1) Gemini Enterprise & AI Agents, 2) Data Analytics, and 3) Application Development.
Following the recent acquisitions in Oslo and Stockholm, the company now employs 75 Google Cloud specialists, with its revenue leaping into the €10 million range.
Codento Facts
Welcome to the Era of AI Equipping
- Codento, a leading Google Cloud consulting company, aims to accelerate the growth of Nordic businesses and help them scale their innovation capabilities through an entirely new blueprint for human-centric, AI-agentic organization and transformation.
- Codento has innovated this blueprint to meet the needs of impatient corporate leaders. Many bold leaders are already eagerly scanning the horizon for the tangible business benefits of AI – as an antidote to frustrating, low-impact AI assistant exercises. They won’t be stopped by the alarmist AI debate; they want to push AI to its limits and ramp up the speed. Beyond driving growth, their goal is to successfully protect their business against brutal international competition, while creating new job roles and opportunities.
- For these bold leaders, Codento has designed a fast lane to implement genuine AI transformation through a Self-Driving Enterprise (SDE) Blueprint that is truly unparalleled on a global scale.
- Codento’s message to corporate leadership is clear: The Era of AI Equipping has begun.
Executing an AI agentic organization with the Self-Driving Enterprise Blueprint
- To successfully build a self-driving AI-agentic organization and pursue exponential growth, a company should proactively, but in a controlled way, reinvent its strategy, business model, and organization – with AI as an enabler.
- When the three pillars of the Self-Driving Enterprise – governance, data, and AI agents – are integrated into a single, unified whole, the company can unlock 10x value.
- SDE Pillars are the modular building blocks to enable rapid implementation and managed scaling:
- (S)teering Wheel: Acts as the central nervous system that translates complex strategic, legal, and operational mandates into unified real-time execution across all functional AI agents orchestrated by people
- (D)Data Fuel – The Data Fuel concept involves refining, vectorizing, and piping high-quality enterprise data through secure, real-time channels to power AI agents with the context and accuracy they need to perform for people.
- (E)cosystem of Agents – This interoperable agent framework enables a strategy-driven, centralized rollout of ready-made agents across ten core enterprise functions serving people and business.
Why do clients succeed with Codento?
- Codento has innovated the SDE Blueprint for its customers based on three superior areas of expertise: 1) Gemini Enterprise & AI Agents, 2) Data Analytics, and 3) Application Development.
- As the only truly Nordic Google Cloud-focused partner, Codento possesses a unique capability to deliver large-scale, pan-Nordic AI transformations for customers across all Nordic countries.
- Codento works daily with Google Cloud’s Nordic sales and technology teams. Thanks to this close collaboration, an increasing number of Nordic companies – those whose success depends on transformative AI and real-time data management – are finding Google Cloud to be the ideal platform for their business.
- Between 2021 and 2026, Codento invested hundreds of thousands of euros in developing Google Cloud expertise and services. The company holds more certified proof of its capabilities (expertises and specializations) than almost any other firm in the Nordic region.
- The company employs approximately 75 consultants focused on Google Cloud solutions across Helsinki, Stockholm, and Oslo. The Codento team consists of a wide range of experts from professional data engineers, database engineers, ML engineers, software developers, DevOps engineers to cloud architects. The team consistently achieves and exceeds an NPS (Net Promoter Score) of 70 in customer satisfaction (based on a 2-year rolling average).
Serving customers in Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki
- To support the ambitious goals of its customers, Codento is establishing itself as the premier Google Cloud partner for Nordic enterprises through strategic acquisitions and organic growth.
- In November 2025, Codento acquired Oslo-based Intelligence AS, followed by Stockholm-based Data Edge in April 2026. These strategic acquisitions and the integration of highly skilled teams have transformed the company into a Nordic powerhouse.
- Strong local expertise and a presence in Sweden, Norway, and Finland provide Codento with a unique capability to serve leading Nordic companies in Google Cloud adoption and AI transformation.
- Following these acquisitions, Codento is set to reach an annual revenue level of €10 million – a significant leap from the €3 million scale it operated at before embarking on its journey to help enterprises adopt Google Cloud just a few years ago.
April 2026: Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award
- Google Cloud has honored Codento with the Finland Google Cloud Partner of the Year 2026 and the Google Cloud Partner of the Year 2024, Services awards.
- Upon presenting Codento with the latest award on April 21, 2026, Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels at Google Cloud, provided the following commendation: The Google Cloud Partner Awards honor the strategic innovation and measurable value our partners bring to customers. We are proud to name Codento a 2026 Google Cloud Partner Award winner, celebrating their role in driving customer success over the last year.
Strategic Shift and Strong Backing for Growth
- A few years ago, Codento’s leadership made a strategic decision to focus on Google Cloud technology. At the time, Google Cloud was in a challenger position, with its global popularity growing faster than its adoption in the Nordic market.
- In September 2024, Codento accelerated its growth by partnering with a new majority owner, Saari Partners. Founded in 2018, Saari Partners is a Finnish private equity firm specializing in scaling service companies from €5 million to €25 million. They brought extensive experience in the consulting business and Nordic-wide scaling. Simultaneously, Codento’s management increased their ownership, and most of the employee-owners continued as individual shareholders.
The leadership and key personnel of the acquired companies, Intelligence AS and Data Edge AB, also became shareholders in Codento through reinvestments made during the acquisitions.
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By investing in competence development, Codento has become the leading skill pool in Google Cloud technologies
Codento team consists of a wide range of experts from professional data engineers, database engineers, ML engineers, software developers, DevOps engineers to cloud architects. The average work experience is 18 years. The team regularly reaches and exceeds NPS of 70 with customer satisfaction ratings (two-year rolling average).
During 2021–2024, Codento has invested hundreds of thousands of euros into developing the skills and services on Google Cloud. Codentoans have built a strong skill pool in Google Cloud technologies and constantly develop competencies further to stay ahead of the curve. By September 2024, the team has achieved 35 Google Cloud Professional Certifications; 2 Google Cloud specializations (Data Analytics- ja Application Development); and 33 expertises: 10 industrial expertises, 10 product and technology expertises and 13 solution expertises. Based on public sources, Codento has the largest number of expertises among Nordic companies.
Management Team
Anthony Gyursanszky, CEO, joined Codento in late 2019 with more than 30 years of IT and software industry experience. Previously Anthony has held leadership positions in F-Secure, SSH, Knowit/Endero, Microsoft Finland, Tellabs, Innofactor and Elisa. Anthony has also been in software company board positions, including Arc Technology and Creanord. Anthony’s experience covers general management, product management, R&D management, software business management, SaaS business, process management, and software development outsourcing.
Key roles at Codento: CEO, business development, sales, CMO, strategic software consulting, Google cooperation, and senior-level consulting for Value Discovery services
Ulf Sandlund, Country Manager, Sweden, Ulf is a (Tech-) entrepreneur (co-founder), as well as an experienced sales leader with more than 30 years of strategy development and operational experience from various C-level positions at international tech companies such as Google Cloud, Microsoft, Accenture and TietoEvry. Ulf also has + 9 years of experience from board work, as well as 10 years of CEO experience. As a CEO and co-founder, Ulf has been building fast growing and profitable tech companies for several years. As the co-founder (CEO & board member) of CombinedX (CX), Ulf has experience from an entrepreneurial “journey” – all the way from start-up stage, into a successful pre-IPO (with corner investors like Edastra, Grenspecialisten, Spiltan) with CX. With Ulf in a CX board role, CX became successfully listed on Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market in Q1/-2022 and on its way to reach >100M Euro revenue in 2024.
Markku Pulkkinen, Senior Vice President, Business Development, joined Codento in 2021. His responsibilities cover multifaceted business development with a special focus on Google Cloud partnership with a close relationship with Google. Prior to Codento, Markku worked for 15 years at Microsoft both in Finland and Western Europe Area HQ and at Oracle for 15 years in Finland and in the US. At Microsoft, he managed the largest business segment and partner ecosystem in Finland, and in WE he was leading a market transformation and a business model change to public cloud for the key Nordic data center service providers.
Key roles at Codento: Business development, sales, and Google cooperation
Markku Tuomala, CTO, joined Codento in 2021. Markku has 25 years of experience in software development and cloud from Elisa, the leading telecom operator in Finland. Markku was responsible for Telco and IT services cloudification strategy and was a member of Elisa’s production management team. Key tasks included Elisa software strategy and operational services setup for business critical IT outsourcing. Markku drove customer oriented development and was instrumental in business growth to Elisa Viihde, Kirja, Lompakko, Self Services and Network automation. Markku also led Elisa data center operations transformation to DevOps.
Key roles at Codento: Team and delivery management, strategic consulting, presales, Google cooperation, and senior-level consulting for Value Discovery services
Antti Pohjolainen, Vice President, Sales, joined Codento in 2019. Antti has led Innofactor’s sales organization (Nordic Microsoft IT provider) and prior to that worked in leadership roles at Microsoft for the Public sector in Finland and Eastern Europe.
Key roles at Codento: Sales, and Google cooperation
Toni Kaikkonen, Director Services, joined Codento in 2020. Toni has more than 20 years of expertise in software and software services business from Knowit, QPR Software and Suunto. Toni’s experience covers product management, R&D management, software business, consulting, agile coach & trainer and software process assessments. Toni also works as senior consultant for Value Discovery services.
Key roles at Codento: Team and delivery management, strategic consulting, presales, Google cooperation, and senior-level consulting for Value Discovery services
Tommi Tuokko, CFO, joined Codento in 2022 to run and develop Codento’s financial operations. Tommi has an extensive career in technology and software companies like Nokia and Elisa.
Jon Havrevold, Country Manager & Vice President, Norway, joined Codento in 2025. A specialist passionate about data platforms and AI, Jon Havrevold focuses on building high-performing teams that address real-world customer needs. His mission is to establish Codento as the leading Google Cloud partner in the Nordics, helping clients leverage data and AI to drive measurable business value. Jon is always eager to discuss how organizations can modernize their data platforms, accelerate AI adoption, and transform complex challenges into practical results.