Karol Kovanen

Karol Kovanen is a mobility and intelligent transport systems (ITS) executive with over two decades of experience in scaling parking, traffic management, and smart mobility solutions across the Baltics and Northern Europe.

Since 2006, he has served as CEO and sole board member of EuroPark Estonia, transforming the company from the ground up into Estonia’s leading private parking operator with over 800 projects and 65% private market share. Under his leadership, EuroPark has maintained strong profitability while driving digitalisation and operational efficiency in a highly competitive environment. He has also led landmark legal initiatives that established regulatory clarity and industry standards for private parking operations in Estonia.

Karol is a co-owner and Business Development Manager at Spinnistart, an IT company developing innovative digital platforms for parking and property access management. Through Spinnistart, he has been closely involved in delivering scalable smart mobility and ITS solutions across Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Finland, Norway and Denmark.

Since 2019, he has also been a co-owner and Board Member of AS Signaal, Estonia’s largest provider of traffic management and traffic safety solutions, contributing to the deployment of intelligent traffic systems and safer urban infrastructure.

As a member of the ITS Estonia Smart Mobility Initiative group, Karol actively contributes to the development of Estonia’s intelligent transport ecosystem, promoting practical deployment models that enable Nordic ITS innovations to scale from pilot projects into sustainable, Europe-wide implementation.