Hey, I am Juha, and I’m the Head of the Control Franchise and the Executive Producer of Control 2 at Remedy Entertainment. I started in the Games Industry and games Production about 13 years ago–after playing games for pretty much all my life–and found it super exciting and super challenging, so I have been on that path ever since.
Before joining Remedy as the Lead Producer of Control back in 2017, I had my own little game start-up Epic Owl that (un)fortunately went down at around 2017. Before that I worked as a Senior GameProducer at Rovio, shipping some of those Angry Birds games you might remember from early 2010s. And the ancient history before my games career includes e.g. mobile phones, security software, and programming.
After shipping Control in 2019, I found out about the amazing Virtual Photography community. The absolute talent and the way you make Control shine through the virtual photographs continues to blow me away and I want to support that in any way I can. So in addition to my day job, I spend a bunch of time on social media looking at your amazing shots and sometimes commenting them. I’m holding my breath to see the beautiful creations in Photo Mode Awards 2025!
Outside of work, I obviously play a lot of games; my favorites of all time are Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3, although there are dozens of close contenders. In addition to games, I watch movies, and series, read books, play the bass guitar, and do a bunch of sports, Taekwon-Do being my main focus.