NORDIC LEADERS CIRCLE

Featured Speakers 2020 – 2022

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FEATURED INDUSTRY EXPERTS

Speakers 2020-2022

Speakers 25th NOV, 2022

Ulf Wirkeland

DIRECTOR, PROCUREMENT - INDIRECT SOURCING EMEIA I ASSA ABLOY (SE)

Ulf is leading the indirect procurement program in ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions, a part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, including the Group Global IT Procurement. The ASSA ABLOY Group is the global leader in access solutions. The offering covers products and services related to openings, such as locks, doors, gates and entrance automation solutions. Ulf joined ASSA ABLOY more than 10 years ago working in various positions. Prior to joining ASSA ABLOY he was the operations director for a Nordics based outsourcing business and he has an previous background in business consulting and sales.

Mika Lahti

HEAD OF SUPPLY OPERATIONS | CAVERION (FI)

Mika Lahti is a procurement and supply chain leader with more than 20 years of experience working in an international business environment. He is currently responsible for Supply Operations at Caverion Group. Prior to Caverion he has held procurement and business leadership positions in Fortum and Nokia as well as provided procurement consulting to 15+ companies.

Mika Lahti

Tom Arild Trosterud

DIRECTOR, GROUP PROCUREMENT I HURTIGRUTEN GROUP (NO)

Tom Arild is leading the indirect category across the group in Hurtigruten, including the Expedition Fleet and global offices. Prior to joining Hurtigruten, Tom Arild worked for a global Telecom company Telenor as a Nordic Senior Sourcing Category Manager and Business Manager.

Lars Ole Thomsen

OPERATIONS DIRECTOR SUPPLY CHAIN |
MAREL (DK)

Lars Ole Thomsen

Speakers 14th Sep, 2022

Merlin Poljak

CFO I SYSTEMBOLAGET

Merlin has a strong background within the retail and appliance industry. Prior to Systembolaget he worked as the CFO for ICA Sweden during 9 years and before that run teams in both Riga and Moscow.

Birgitte Hjertum

CFO | AQUA PHARMA

Birgitte is the CFO for the Aquatiq group and the Aqua Pharma group. She was also board member for Oslo Rederi Förening for 4 years during her 15 year experience within IR and Finance at Höegh LNG.

Birgitte Hjertum

Juha-Pekka Ojala

Juha-Pekka Ojala

CFO I LUHTA SPORTSWEAR COMPANY

Juha-Pekka Ojala is professional of business administration in a multinational consumer goods corporation. Skilled, among others, in leadership and management, corporate finance and treasury, corporate legal matters and asset management.

Speakers 19th May, 2022

Christian Nilsson

CFO ABB ELECTRIFICATION I ABB GROUP SVP | SWITZERLAND

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.

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. 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!

Katrin Karu

Tiina-Liisa Liukkonen

Tiina-Liisa Liukkonen

GROUP CFO I OLVI | FINLAND

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.

Speakers 15th March, 2022

Juuso Pajunen

EVP, CFO, AFRY - Group Management, FINLAND

As the EVP in the executive committee Juuso is responsible for the finance organisation with 160+ professionals, IT, risk management and investor relations.

With over 20 years in the company he is leading the PTO where ÅF intends to acquire 100% of Pöyry Group. Among other tasks he has also implemented an ERP project to 40+ countries, managed funding negotiations with dire balance sheet and taken part in multiple M&A on both buy and sell side.

Sandeep Singhvi

Country CFO for Sweden, Norway & Finland, Novartis (CFO Nordics Cluster Pharma)

Sandeep has been working with Novartis for almost a decade across different geographies including Switzerland, India, Vietnam and now in Sweden as Nordics Pharma CFO. He has worked in different aspects of finance including planning, compliance & accounting across Country, Corporate, Regional and Functional set ups. He is a Chartered Accountant and an MBA majored in Finance & Strategy and has worked with PwC and Dubai Investments before joining Novartis.

Sandeep Singhvi

Magnus Karlsson

CFO, SWECO - SWEDEN

Magnus, who is heading a finance function of 180 colleagues is passionate about the current possibilities within digital transformation. With over 20 years of experience as Acting CEO, Group CFO or CFO Magnus has brought efficiency into companies and shared service centres like MAN Truck & Bus, Tele2, Nexus and Vattenfall.