I am an independent advisor and non-executive director with a passion for helping especially family-run businesses to renew and transform. Over the years, I have served on over 15 boards and advisory boards, varying from start-ups, associations, foundations and long-established family companies to a publicly traded company. As a problem solver and strategic thinker, I help with direction setting, strategy development and execution, strategic transformation, customer focus, change leadership, result orientation, and a growth mindset. My background includes senior global and regional leadership positions in sales, marketing, strategy, policy and operations at technology-giant Nokia, and the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel Neste. Neste’s transformation was named by Harvard Business Review as one of the “Top 20 Business Transformations of the Last Decade” in 2019. I headed the commercial and sales transformation. Earlier in my career I worked as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer in New York City and London. I’m deeply committed to environmental sustainability and I am Chair of the John Nurminen Foundation, which works to clean up the heavily polluted Baltic Sea. I regularly join Arctic expeditions to study the impacts of climate change and do science outreach. I often speak at conferences and as a guest on podcasts. In 2020, I co-authored a children’s book on climate change and microplastics in the oceans with renowned Finnish publishing house Otava and in 2023 was featured on Discovery Channel (Finland) in the 10 episode TV-series on climate change. I have Masters’ Degrees in Law from both the University of Helsinki and Columbia University (where I was a Fulbright and Rotary scholar). I also have a Diploma in Management from IMD Business School in Switzerland.