Skeleton Technologies has appointed Samu Kukkonen as Business Development Director to accelerate the company’s expansion in the rapidly growing AI infrastructure market. As AI workloads place unprecedented demands on power quality, Samu’s background in energy storage and direct customer collaboration will be instrumental in advancing the adoption of mission-critical power solutions.
In this role, Samu will act as a senior strategic partner to Skeleton’s product and commercial leadership, ensuring that the company’s technology roadmap, product decisions, and customer engagements are tightly aligned with the evolving performance, reliability, and scalability requirements of AI data centers. He will build long-term, trusted relationships with hyperscale operators, system integrators, and strategic partners.
Samu brings a rare combination of deep technical expertise and customer-centric business leadership that will enable Skeleton to scale and deploy AI data center power solutions globally. Prior to joining Skeleton, he served as Technology Director at Normet Group with a specific focus on battery electric vehicle technology. Before Normet Group, Samu worked as a Research Scientist at VTT, a leading Nordic research and technology company.
His technical background includes R&D of battery systems, high-power charging systems, commercial vehicle electrification, and fuel cell power electronics, as well as hands-on involvement in the design and construction of state-of-the-art battery laboratories. He has also worked on fuel cell hybridization, system modeling, and power system design, blending research, project management, and real-world deployment experience across demanding industrial environments.
As Business Development Director, Samu will play an integral role in achieving Skeleton’s goal to deploy more than 1 GW of power capacity across the U.S. to support AI infrastructure growth in the next 18 months.
