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Jussi Nokkala

Partner, ESG Advisory Leader | PwC Finland

Jussi Nokkala is a Partner in PwC’s Consulting practice, leading the ESG and Climate related consulting work at PwC Finland. With over 10 years of experience in developing ESG and climate strategies for companies and investors,  he is one of the leading ESG experts in Finland. Jussi has worked with large Nordic companies and investors across sectors in developing ESG and climate strategies, emission reduction strategies, sustainable supply chain programs and ESG processes. In addition, he has worked extensively on M&A related ESG matters, advising on ESG in transactions, IPOs and investments. Previously, Nokkala has worked in PwC’s global network in London and Amsterdam developing climate-related ESG ratings for some of the world's largest institutional investors.
 

SIMON BOAS HOFFMAYER

SENIOR DIRECTOR SUSTAINABILITY & ESG | CARLSBERG GROUP

Simon has a background within strategy, business development, PR and communications and has been developing business-driven sustainability solutions for more than 15 years. He is responsible for the development and implementation of the Carlsberg Group’s sustainability programme Together Towards ZERO & Beyond. His interest particularly lies in making sustainability relevant and accessible for the consumers, and developing partnerships to achieve concrete sustainability goals. 

KATI IHAMÄKI

VP SUSTAINABILITY | VP SUSTAINABILITY | FISKARS GROUP

In addition to her day job, Kati serves on the boards of St1 Nordic, HJK ry and the Children and Youth Foundation, the Responsibility Board of Finland Chamber of Commerce and the Board of The Association for Finnish Work. 

Prior to joining Fiskars Group, she worked at OP Financial Group as VP for brand and CR and has a long career at Finnair, where for the last years as  Director of Sustainable.

Kati believes in the power of cooperation - with the help of states, companies, the third sector and citizens, we can achieve sustainable change and a better world from the perspective of both people and nature. We are all "leaders in sustainable development" in this sense.

Tommi Luopajärvi

MANAGING DIRECTOR | POLESTAR FINLAND

Polestar is driving the post-petrol era of automotive with its design-focused, premium EVs and aiming to create a truly climate-neutral car without offsetting by 2030. Tommi is the Managing Director of Polestar Finland with nearly two decades of experience in the automotive industry. He has previously acted as Country Manager at Nissan Finland and has held various sales and product related leadership positions.

JANNE PORANEN

CHAIR OF BOARD, CO-FOUNDER | SPINNOVA

Janne Poranen is the co-founder and Chair of the Board of Directors of Spinnova Oyj. Previously he was the CEO of Spinnova Oyj during 2014-2022. Before Spinnova, he held various positions at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, acting as Principal Scientist between 2014-2015, Head of Research Area, Fibres and Biobased Materials during 2014, Technology Manager 2006-2013 and had various other manager and team leader positions at VTT starting from 1999. Janne Poranen holds a PhD in Physics from University of Jyväskylä where he also acted as a Researcher in 1997. He is a Finnish Citizen.

Riku Kytömäki

CEO | BETOLAR

Riku Kytömäki has started as the CEO of Betolar at the beginning of November. He comes from Exel Composite where he managed the company as the CEO for 9 years. Before this he has worked in various international senior roles at ABB.  He is a board member in many international companies among others in Teknikum Group. His expertise contains international leadership and especially within the Asian market.

ANNIKA RAMSKÖLD

VICE PRESIDENT CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY | VATTENFALL

Annika has worked in Vattenfall  for over 30 years with a wide range of assignments from R&D and business development to sales, trading, marketing and strategy. Her more recent positions are as VP Market Strategy and Business Development, VP CEO Office. 

She is chairman of the Joint Venture “Volvo-Vattenfall Plug-in-hybrid company”, Värtan Gas and Gasnätet Stockholm, and a board member of CSR Sweden and the nomination committee for Global Compact Network Sweden.

SOILI MÄKINEN

SVP Digitalisation and CIO | CARGOTEC OYJ

Soili Mäkinen (M.Sc., Econ.) is the Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, Digitalisation, at Cargotec Corporation. Ms Mäkinen is a member of the Cargotec Executive Board. She joined Cargotec in 2006, prior to which she was the CIO of MacGregor. She heads Cargotec's information management and digitalisation strategy and development with increasing focus on sustainable business and technology solutions and use of data to achieve science based climate commitments.

JAANA HÄNNINEN

DIRECTOR SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENT | VALMET AUTOMOTIVE

Jaana is currently working as director of Sustainability and environment at Valmet Automotive. She has over 20 years of experience of  diverse sustainability assignments, before stepping into automotive industry couple of years ago, she accelerated and developed sustainability issues within maritime industries over 13 years.

MARCUS BRUNS

NORDIC HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY | STOREBRAND

Marcus has a broad area of responsibility, covering work with national and international sustainability networks, strategy, sustainability mapping in procurement, sustainability reporting as well as chairing Storebrand's Green Bond Committee.

Marcus leads Storebrand's work in the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance. He is also a task force member of the sector track in the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ).

Prior to joining Storebrand, Marcus was a co-founder and CEO of Young Sustainable Impact, a global not-for-profit organisation that helps young entrepreneurs build impact start-ups. 

KARIN HERI

COUNTRY DIRECTOR SWEDEN | Tent Partnership for Refugees

Tent mobilises the global business community to improve the lives and livelihoods for as many of the 36 million refugees who have been forcibly displaced from their home countries. Founded by Chobani’s founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya in 2016, Tent is a network of over 260 major companies committed to including refugees. 

Prior to joining Tent, Karin was Head of Sustainability and Social Responsibility at Swedish football club Malmö FF. She led initiatives battling unemployment, racism, and segregation, as well as initiating the first partnership in Sweden between a sports club and the United Nations’ Refugee Agency (UNHCR). She also led the quest to make the Stadium Swedens most sustainable.

Staffan ekholm

CEO | Another Tomorrow

Staffan's sole focus is to accelerate societal transition to net zero. By merging science-backed insights, innovation methods and tools, Another Tomorrow takes organisations from inertia to action. In collaboration with some of Europe's leading climate researchers, this Stockholm-based consultancy drives the development of new resources to get them future-ready for a green economy. Staffan has over 20 years of experience of leading international consulting and software companies such as Framfab and Mag+.

Sverker C. Jagers

Expert in Environmental Politics | University of Gothenburg 

As professor of political science at Gothenburg University, Director of Centre for Collective Action Research, and professor at Uppsala University under the Zennström Professorship in Climate Change Leadership, Sverker provides evidence-based knowledge in areas such as collective action, climate change taxes, laws, and policies. He collaborates with Another Tomorrow because of a shared commitment to help strengthen and build capacity among organisations to work towards net-zero and accelerate a greening of the economy.

SILJE ROSENLUND

HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENT | MESTA NO

Silje has six years of experience with sustainability topics and experience from different sectors such as Infrastructure, Circular economy, IT and Energy. Her responsibility is among other things strategy, reporting, sustainable procurement, engaging and connecting people and building knowledge.

To succeed in saving the planet and humanity she advocates interdisciplinary collaboration and open minded, curious and regenerative leadership. She believes that we need to balance hard facts and numbers with people and culture. Personally she is passionate about reuse and to engage the younger generation towards a sustainable future.

PAULA LAINE

CEO | THE FINNISH CLIMATE FUND

Paula Laine is the CEO of the Finnish Climate Fund. Prior to her current position she has worked as the Strategy Director for Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, as well as in leading roles for international technology companies, including Nokia. Laine’s background is in technical physics.

Outside office hours Laine runs and further develops an energy self-sufficient horse farm in Sipoo.

TIINA ANTTURI

HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY, NORDICS & BALTICS | SAP

Tiina’s passion to build bridges between profitable business, technology and Global Sustainability Goals. After 20 years in ICT business Tiina worked as a CEO of an NGO. Seeing the challenges of the most fragile places, she is now taking that experience back to businesses to boost the sustainable development.

TERHI VALTONEN

SENIOR SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT | ECOBIO

Terhi Valtonen is a Senior Sustainability Consultant at Ecobio. She is an experienced EU policy professional with a special focus on EU Taxonomy and corporate sustainability. Prior to this position, she has worked in the  OP Financial Group and at the ministry with several different activities from social insurance to sustainable finance. She has experience in working in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health during the Finnish EU Presidency and also in public affairs and influencing.

HENRIK Husman

PRESIDENT | Nasdaq HELSINKI

Henrik Husman is President of Nasdaq Helsinki since 2016 and is also Vice President, Cash Equities Product Development of Nasdaq European Markets since 2008. Husman served as Deputy CEO of Nasdaq Helsinki from 2008 to 2016. Prior to that, he worked in several executive positions at Nasdaq and its predecessors in Finland. He originally joined the Helsinki stock exchange in 1997. He is a member of the ESMA Secondary Markets Standing Committee Consultative Working Group, Chairman of the Listing Committee of Nasdaq Helsinki, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Securities Markets Association in Finland. 

Heidi Peltonen

LEAD, SUSTAINABLE PARTNERSHIPS | NESTE

Heidi Peltonen is leading the Sustainable Partnership team at Neste, with a purpose to create value with renewable low-emission solutions. With the team, Heidi develops new Carbon Neutral solutions to support companies reaching Net Zero targets and supports the business in turning sustainability into the customers' competitive advantage.

Samu Slotte

GLOBAL HEAD OF SUSTAINABLE FINANCE | DANSKE BANK

Samu Slotte is the Global Head of Sustainable Finance at Danske Bank’s Large Corporates and Institutions unit, with the overall responsibility of ESG integration and target setting for the banking portfolios as well as supporting the bank’s clients in their transition to more sustainable business models via green and sustainable finance. Before his current role, Samu spent more than 20 years in various roles in capital markets. He holds a M.Sc. in Economics from Åbo Akademi University and a B.Sc. in Biological and Environmental sciences from University of Helsinki.

Anssi Kiviniemi

HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY | SEB FINLAND

Anssi has been working in capital markets and in investment banking for more than ten years. His background is in equity research in SEB covering various of sectors, such as construction, real estate, building materials, steel and chemicals. During the years he saw the change in investor focus that was moving increasingly towards sustainability-related topics in different businesses and value chains. This drove him towards integrating sustainability into fundamental research and linking sustainability into concrete numbers, value. Nowadays he drives SEB’s sustainability efforts in Finland; products, transactions and advisory in large corporates and financial institutions space. Anssi holds M.Sc. in Finance from University of Oulu.

Katri Kennedy

BUSINESS LEAD, SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGIST | RAMBOLL FINLAND

Katri Kennedy is a Business Leader and sustainability strategist at Ramboll Finland. Her background is a combination of management consulting, strategy and business development -related leadership roles in e.g. If P&C Insurance. Her expertise lies in strategy implementation and organizational change. Katri is endlessly curious about transformations, how organizations develop through people and what it takes to lead sustainable change. She leads a growing Strategic Sustainability Consulting business in Ramboll Finland and helps companies integrate sustainability into the core of the strategy, increasing value.

PIA ERKINHEIMO

Customer and Dealflow Director | Ilmastorahasto

KATRINE HOSET

Senior Sustainability Consultant | Ecobio Oy

CATARINA ASPLUND

Senior Consultant | Intito

NINA RUOKONEN

Global Lead Systems Integrators | SAP Concur

RICCARDO NYKOPP

Regional Sales Director | Workiva

CHRISTINA FRIBORG

EVP & Head of Sustainability

SSAB

MALIN RIPA

Head of Sustainability

Acel Johnson Int

KALLE SAARIMAA

VP Recycling & Waste

Fortum

ANNIINA VIRTA-TOIKKA

Head of Sustainability

Konecranes

NOOMI JÄGHERHORN

Director of Sustainability

Posti Group

ANNA LJUNGDAHL

Investment Director

Industrifonden

HANNA LEHTONEN

Director, Packaging

HKScan 

TRINE PONDAL

Head of Sustainability

Flying Tiger

NINA KINNUNEN

Director, Sustainability

Kekkilä - BVB

PETER NYMAN

JOURNALIST, TV-HOST

Peter Nyman is a well-known, charismatic and experienced TV-anchor and business event moderator. He is a journalist,  news-anchor and media professional that coaches on three languages. Peter  has run communication trainings for business directors- and experts for years, but speaks about communication skills also to bigger audiences. 

MARIA COLLIN

Head of Sustainabiliy Nordics & Global Sustainable Procurement Program | HP

MARKUS LINDQVIST

Director, Sustainability | Aktia Bank