Gurulogic Microsystems: Hamburger Mogul’s Quest for a World-Changing Codec
Summary
TURKU, Finland--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Heikki Salmela is best known as the owner and founder of the multi-national hamburger chain Hesburger.Now one of his businesses has developed a codec that can make a crucial difference in data transfer, with applications ranging from medical science to IoT solutions."The possibilities of compressing and decompressing data, such as large raw images, without losing information are endless in for example medical science, autonomous vehicles, or digital cameras," he lists.The family-owned hamburger chain dominates the market with 270 restaurants, and it’s growing fast internationally – in Latvia and Lithuania the annual growth in sales is over 20 percent.Salmela, the owner and founder of Hesburger, is a serial entrepreneur whose knack for business has taken him from flipping burgers at a kiosk him and his wife Kirsti bought in their early twenties to sitting on the board of around 250 companies.