CHRISTIAN NILSSON

CFO & GROUP SVP I ABB ELECTRIFICATION BUSINESS

Since his appointment in 2017, Christian has managed ABB Electrification’s ~12 billion in revenues, with six global divisions, 50,000 employees, operations in 100+ countries, and 100+ manufacturing sites. In a career spanning over 24 years, Christian has become a respected global leader, combining business strategy with financial intelligence and people empowerment. Prior to joining ABB, Christian held CFO and senior finance positions at DSM, TE Connectivity, and General Electric, working in China, the USA, the UK, Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland. He holds an MBA from the University of Brussels and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Luther College, USA.

ANNINA SALVéN

CFO I NEXT GAMES

Annina has a Msc. in Finance, specializing in Corporate Finance with a background in both banking and consulting. In 2017 Annina worked on successfully leading the Finance department when listing Next Games as the first mobile games company in Finland.

Annina has a holistic view on the role of Finance for a gaming company, which should be strategically tied into the core of the business, supporting all functions from game development, technology, marketing and analytics.

VILLE JAAKONSALO

GROUP CFO,  HEAD OF TRANSFORMATION I PATRIA

Ville has been working for Patria Group as CFO since 2010, including a half-year period as interim CEO in 2019. In addition to the CFO role, he’s been main responsible since 2021 as Head of Transformation for the biggest strategic transformation in Patria’s history. Prior to Patria, he held several positions in Metsä Group including Group Treasurer and CFO of Metsä Fibre. He holds an LL.M. and MBA and is Board member in Norwegian Nammo A.S., Suomen Rahapaja Oy (Mint of Finland) and Millog Oy.

KATRIN KARU

CFO | TV3 GRUPP | ESTONIA

TV3 is the leading media group in the Baltics.

Before Katrin was building up the largest entertainment group in the Baltics, Apollo Entertainment Group. In 10 years, Apollo grew from a small bookstores chain into the largest entertainment group with cinemas, restaurants and cafeterias.

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Katrin has also been the CFO of Rautakirja Estonia. She believe that Passion is key to achieving everything and is a trigger for action and motivation and that the Team is ALL!

JARI LEHTO

VP, FINANCE DIGITALIZATION & DEVELOPMENT I STORA ENSO

Responsible for group wide finance strategy development, digitalization agenda and its’ implementation. Heading the introduction of new and emerging technologies, like AI, Robotics, Blockchain, Advanced Analytics to CFO organization.

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Project portfolio management lead for automation & development projects.

Also executing a role of a Business Information officer responsible for IT in CFO office.

REGINA SIPPEL

SVP, CFO I VEIKKAUS

Bio coming soon

TIINA-LIISA LIUKKONEN

GROUP CFO I OLVI

Tiina-Liisa has worked at Olvi as the CFO since September 2018 and is responsible for the Group’s financial administration, strategy development and digitalisation projects . Liukkonen has extensive experience in financial management. Previously, she has been working as CFO at Osuuskauppa PeeÄssä 2013-2018, as Group Controller and Financial Manager at Normet Group 2008-2013 and as Auditor at Ernst & Young 2005-2008.

MIGUEL VERGARA

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER – FINANCE AND OPERATIONS I ORACLE

Miguel has worked more than 15 years with finance in various big companies like Tieto, H&M, and ICA Gruppen. His main responsibility has been for Management reporting and planning and for two IPOs. 

Today he helps companies to address their financial and operational challenges by incorporating new technologies with finance and raising the bar.

ILKKA KOSOLA

CFO I ADVEN GROUP

Ilkka, works as CFO of Adven Group. He has held leading finance positions of global public listed and private equity companies for over twenty years.

JARNO LEHIKOINEN

DIRECTOR SALES & MARKETING  I HEEROS

Jarno and his team works directly in customer interface and helps companies to find best financial solutions for their needs. With this hype about AI and automatization, companies still need guidance how to get the most out of those systems. Jarno’s mission is that no company would make unnecessary and too expensive system investments but would choose best solution for their business needs

TARJA JÄRVINEN

DEPUTY CEO, CFO I RAUTE

Bio coming soon

MAGNUS BERGFORS

GLOBAL BUSINESS DIRECTOR I BASWARE

Magnus Bergfors, currently  Director, Global Business at Basware, has an extensive background in the P2P space as an Analyst with Spend Matters and also formerly with Gartner. 

SAMI PAKARINEN

DIRECTOR, HEAD OF DATA & RESEARCH I EK

Sami (Ph.D.) has worked as Director at the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK since 2019. He is in charge of the Data & Research department and member of EK’s Management Group.

Prior to EK he worked as chief economist at  Rakennusteollisuus RT and at Pellervo Economic Research.

SANNA KURRONEN

ECONOMIST I EVA

Sanna works as a lead economist at Finnish Business and Policy Forum Eva. Her focus area is currently the Finnish economic policy. Before joining the think tank sphere, Sanna collected extensive experience from the financial sector. She also holds a PhD in economics.

PASI KUOPPAMÄKI

CHIEF ECONOMIST I DANSKE BANK (Finland)

Pasi is the Chief Economist of Danske Bank Finland. He has been part of the bank since 2000 as economist and in investor communication- and risk management related roles. He holds a MsC from Helsinki School of Economics. During his career he has also worked as a researcher for Etla and Bank of Finland.

DAVID WOODALL

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MARKETING I TRINTECH

David is in charge of Trintech Large Enterprise offerings for the future of the Office of Finance. Prior to joining Trintech in 2019, David had several Finance roles, more recently as a Director in the R2R Global Process Owners team at global pharmaceuticals GSK. As part of this role, David helped design a 3-year R2R transformation roadmap utilizing automation and risk-based processes to drive efficiency, increased transparency &  and reduction in risks within the R2R operation.

JOHANNA VARIS

HEAD OF EXTERNAL REPORTING I Tietoevry

Johanna is a group financial reporting professional and responsible for Tietoevry Group’s external reporting. She has wide experience in Group consolidation and IFRS. Previously she has been working as Development Manager in Terveystalo (IPO), as Group Financial Controller at Outokumpu and as auditor at Deloitte

JOONAS ALASAARI

SENIOR BUSINESS CONTROLLER I VAASAN

Experienced professional with long history in FMCG, with experience with both Finance and Sales. I have worked for years on how to improve the quality of financial and business planning, automation of planning processes and reporting. My current position in Vaasan, which is part of Lantmannen Group, is focused on the use of data to build sound support for business processes and using analytical tools and automation to find out leads for process improvement.

SAMI LAHTINEN

Account Manager FIN

OneStream Software

HENRI LIUSKA

Director Products

Heeros Oyj

PETRI SIPOLA

CEO

Intito

RICCARDO NYKOPP

Regional Sales Director

Workiva

ANDY KING

Director Product Management

Oracle

VISA LINKIÖ

Data Scientist

Intito

JUHO KOLMONEN

Senior Consultant

Intito

SARI LESKINEN

Senior Consultant

Accountor

VILLE AAVIKKO

Senior Solution Engineer

Oracle