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Thomas took up the role of Wedeco’s CEO in 2020. Thomas gained exper­i­ence in private equity as a member of Wedeco’s Board of Direct­ors from 2016–2020.

Thomas has been involved in corpor­ate finance for more than 25 years and has played a role in numer­ous corpor­ate trans­ac­tions as an investor. Thomas was respons­ible for Nordea’s corpor­ate bank­ing oper­a­tions in the Ostro­both­nia region for several years, so he is famil­iar with the compan­ies and the oper­at­ing envir­on­ment in Wedeco’s area of oper­a­tions. Thomas has completed the Certi­fied Board Member and Certi­fied Board Member chair­per­son courses.

Jarkko has diverse exper­i­ence in stra­tegic and oper­at­ive manage­ment, work­ing on boards, busi­ness devel­op­ment and corpor­ate mergers and acquisitions.

He has previ­ously worked in busi­ness manage­ment, as an entre­pren­eur-CEO, as an invest­ment banker and in private equity, as well as in busi­ness manage­ment consulting.

Päivi Arff­man-Jokelainen has worked for Wedeco since 2000. She has solid exper­i­ence in vari­ous roles in finan­cial admin­is­tra­tion, and at Wedeco she handles Wedeco’s finan­cial admin­is­tra­tion, corpor­ate finance docu­ment­a­tion as well as internal and external reporting.

Sören has worked at Wedeco as Invest­ment Manager from 2011 until 2022.

Sören has strong and diverse exper­i­ence in corpor­ate finance, and he also has long exper­i­ence work­ing on boards both as a member and as Chair of the Board.

Sören has completed the Certi­fied Board Member and Certi­fied Board Member Chair­per­son courses and is a member of the Board of Pohjan­maan Hallituspart­nerit ry.

Keijo star­ted work­ing at Wedeco as Invest­ment Manager in 2001, and then took the role of CEO from 2005 until August 2020.

Keijo’s main areas of expert­ise are mergers and acquis­i­tions, finance and strategies. He has been involved in more than 50 merger and acquis­i­tion trans­ac­tions during his career. Keijo also has a long exper­i­ence in work­ing on boards both as a member and as Chair of the Board.

Keijo has completed the Certi­fied Board Member and Certi­fied Board Member Chair­per­son courses and is a member of the Board of Pohjan­maan Hallituspart­nerit ry.

Pasi has been involved in entre­pren­eur­ial activ­it­ies for more than 30 years, as an entre­pren­eur in the logist­ics and ICT sectors and he has been and contin­ues to be an active owner in start-ups and SMEs. Pasi has extens­ive exper­i­ence in mergers and acquis­i­tions, finance and strategies.

Aki is a serial entre­pren­eur who has oper­ated in sectors such as ICT and health care. He has also been an active owner in several SMEs for more than 15 years. Prior to his career as an entre­pren­eur, Aki worked as an invest­ment banker at Mandatum, where he gained a lot of exper­i­ence in mergers and acquis­i­tions and finance. Aki is also an owner and Chair of the Board of Postvera, which is Wedeco’s largest shareholder.