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Espoo, Fi

Helsinki, Fi

Leading Findynet digital identity network, securing €3M in government funding and aligning strategic goals with national and EU objectives.

Led the establishment of Findynet Cooperative, securing €3M in government funding and aligning founding members around a shared vision for Finland’s digital identity ecosystem.

Helsinki, Finland, Fi

Established and led Tietoevry’s Digital Identity unit, overseeing strategic initiatives and contributing to national and EU-level digital identity projects.

Helsinki, Finland, Fi

Directed innovation initiatives for Tietoevry’s Digital Consulting unit, focusing on incubating new business ideas and creating scalable methodologies for service development.

Helsinki, Finland, Fi

Led blockchain initiatives in digital identity and multi-party processes, chaired the Findy Consortium, and delivered ecosystem projects like Smart Money with financial and public sector partners.

Helsinki, Finland, Fi

Led Tieto’s business accelerator program, validating 25 new service ideas and launching over 10 scalable services to market.

Helsinki, Finland, Fi

Spearheaded the SPARK! innovation program, validating over 100 business ideas and generating a €10M sales funnel within six months.

Helsinki, Finland, Fi

Contributed to Tieto’s cloud services strategy, enabling the successful launch of offerings such as Salesforce, Workday, and SAP SuccessFactors.

Helsinki, Finland, Fi

Founded and led Tieto SWIFT Service Bureau, establishing it as a critical part of Finland’s financial infrastructure and securing major clients such as Metso, Sanoma, and Kemira.

La Hulpe, Wallonia, Be

Developed a strategic framework for SWIFT’s e-invoice service, validated with 29 member banks, and contributed to the European Commission’s e-invoicing expert group.

Helsinki, Fi

Managed Nordea’s e-invoice and e-salary functions, while representing the bank in co-authoring the Nordic banking industry’s e-invoice strategy to drive standardization and cross-border collaboration.

Helsinki, Fi

Played a key role as Product Manager for Nordea’s award-winning e-invoice service, adopted by 30,000 corporate customers by 2005, and chaired the Finnish Bankers’ Association working group that developed the Finvoice standard, now Finland’s national e-invoice standard.