“The hobby of flea markets and recycling clothes that I started as a teenager has certainly been a factor in my career choice,” says Marjo Santanen, Billerud AB’s new Pietarsaari factory manager. Santanen started as factory manager in 2025.
Emilia Moisio has been the leader of Ahlstrom's Value Engineering team and purchasing director since autumn 2022. Moisio, who previously sold pulp, also moved to the other side of the table as a technical buyer.
Emilia Moisio has been the leader of Ahlstrom's Value Engineering team and purchasing director since autumn 2022. Moisio, who previously sold pulp, also moved to the other side of the table as a technical buyer.
“We call these secondment contracts. I had been in the legal world for a while and wanted to see more. UPM was eventually chosen as the company. I thought I would stay until the end of the contract year and then return to the law firm.”
Julia Vuorinen is a change of field. Before her current job at VTT, she worked as a business development manager in the “textile and nonwoven materials” research team working on biomaterials. The business scientist’s work included project-based operational activities in particular.
Sirpa Välimaa got into Tampere as a “flower shop assistant” to study for her Master of Science (Di) degree. “That’s what we were called there. In the late 1990s, the then university of technology was looking for social, outgoing students who could talk and know how to do things like this.
Petri Hakanen, who started as UPM's Chief Technology Officer in August 2023, will lead the company's research and development, new business development and investment management, among other things, by taking care of the company's strategic
Heidi Saxell, who started as CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Paptic Oy in spring 2022, is interested in the holistic nature of work, which is often prevalent in growth companies. Creators can expect a unique kind of freedom, but
Austrian chemist Michael Hummel had just completed his PhD at the University of Innsbruck in his hometown when Professor Herbert Sixta assembled a research team associated with the Future Biorefinery project to develop what would later become known as Ioncell.
An energy expert, UPM Energy Director and Energy Services Team Leader, he is passionate about challenging things. The first of these was getting to study physics, which seemed interesting and really challenging. On top of that, he also
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