Svante Jurnell is the co-founder and CEO of Eastern Light and is a pioneer within fiber optic infrastructure in the Nordic region. In 1995, he co-founded the telecom and internet operator Utfors which built the first large-scale private fiber network in Scandinavia, and in 1999 he co-founded fiber infrastructure company IP-Only, for which he was the CEO for ten years. He now heads Eastern Light, which operates its own independent sea cable system in the Baltic Sea and builds entirely new and independent long-haul fiber infrastructure, at sea and on land, across northern Europe for the purpose of providing end-to-end dark fiber connections between major data centers in the region.