Spinverse Board of Directors
Back Row (L-R): Lars Gädda, Yrjö Neuvo, Matti Kleimola
Front Row (L-R): Matti Packalen, Pekka Koponen
Yrjö
Neuvo
Yrjö Neuvo, Ph.D. (EE), Cornell
University, Professor and Research Director at Helsinki University of
Technology, previously Executive Vice President and CTO of Nokia
Corporation, was responsible for product development and technologies
of mobile phones. He was a member of the Group Executive Board of Nokia
during 1993-2005. He is a member of Metso and Vaisala Boards of
directors. Before joining Nokia, Dr. Neuvo gained international
academic recognition as professor of signal processing at Tampere
University of Technology. He was National Researh Professor at Academy
of Finland and visiting professor at University of California, Santa
Barbara.
He has published over 400 scientific
articles and educated 30 Ph.D’s. He holds several patents. Dr. Neuvo
has been and is member of several European, Nordic and Finnish research
and innovation policy related working groups and committees. He is
Fellow of IEEE, Member of Academia Europeae, the Swedish Academy of
Technical Sciences, two Finnish Academies and holds three honorary
doctorates. Asteroid 1938 DN has been named Neuvo. Dr. Neuvo has been
serving as Chairman of ARTEMIS and is currently the President of
ARTEMISIA.
Matti
Kleimola
Matti Kleimola, Professor and
Senior Advisor for Board of Management of Wärtsilä Corporation. From
2000 until his retirement in 2006, Kleimola was CTO, Group Vice
President, Technology and Environment (BoM) at Wärtsilä. In the earlier
part of his career, Kleimola held various positions at Wärtsilä,
including R&D Head of Wärtsilä Diesel, R&D Manager and
Design manager at Wärtsilä Oy Ab Vaasa factory.
In
the years between his positions at Wärtsilä, Kleimola held various
positions at HUT. From 1997 to 2000 he was the Head of Laboratory at
HUT Internal Combustion Engines, and prior to that from 1980 to 1997 he
was Head of Laboratory at HUT Machine Design. Also at the start of his
career, Prof Kleimola was employed at HUT, first as an Assistant in HUT
Internal Combustion Engines and later as Chief Engineer at HUT
Automotive Laboratory.
Professor Kleimola has many
positions of confidence including president, Board of CIMAC (the
International Council of Combustion Engines); member of the board,
Finnish Academies of Technology (FACTE); Chairman of the Finnish
Society of Workshop Engineers; Chairman of the Business and Technology
Committee, Technology Industries of Finland; member of Research
Committee, Confederation of Finnish Industries and Employers (TT) and
Chief Engineer Counselor. Professor Kleimola is also an expert member
of the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland.
Lars
Gädda
Lars Erik Gädda, Ph.D, has been since September 2007 the Research Director in Forestcluster Ltd. Forestcluster Ltd (Metsäklusteri Oy) is an innovation company established to network top level research and innovation in the Finnish forest cluster. The new innovation company is responsible for the operation of the cluster's strategic centre for science, technology and innovation. Its task is to initiate research and innovation programmes and to channel research funds to selected focus areas.
From 2000 to 2007 he was the Senior Vice President, R&D, in M-real. Before that Lars Gädda was the Vice President of technology at Fortum Oil and Gasin Porvoo. He is a graduate of Åbo Akademi, with a higher academic degree in organic chemistry, licentiate and Ph.D in wood pulping technology.
Lars Gädda is currently a board representative in the Institute for Surface Chemistry, Premix Oy and Research Foundation of Helsinki University of Technology. He is also a member of Research Council of Helsinki University of Technology, Research Council of Åbo Akademi, Research and Technology Committee of Forest Industries Federation, Management board of the Department of Chemistry in the University of Helsinki, Forest Based Technology Platform Advisory Group (as a chair).
Matti Packalén
Matti
Packalén, honorary Dr of Economic Sciences, has held many notable
positions during his career. In the early years, Packalén was an
expatriate in Poland as an export engineer and as assistant of trade at
the Finnish embassy. In 1982 Packalén was employed by Valmet Oy,
Tractor division where he was an area director and director of the
forest machines division. Dr Packalén was managing director at
Sako-Tikka Oy 1982-86, Kansa-consortium 1986-92, Aamuleti-consortium
1998-2002 and Alma Media 1992-2002.
Dr Packalén is
currently a board representative in John Nurminen Oy, Teamware Group
chairman, Goodmood Oy chairman and Kemfine Oy. In addition he has been
a board representative in a number of organizations, including Novo
Group, Kemira Oyj, Vapo Oy, Setec Oy and TV4 (Sweden).
Further
positions of confidence include many different organisations such as
member of board of the Finnish Newspaper Association (1992-1994),
chairman of the Finnish department at International Chamber of Commerce
(ICC), and member of the board as representative of the Nordic
countries, the Finnish-Swedish Chamber of Commerce delegation member
from 1998, Scouts of Finland foundation supervisory board, UNICEF
Global Movement Finland – group member since 2000. He has also held the
position of president at International Institute of Communications (UK)
and co-chairman at Media Lab Europe (Dublin, Ireland). Since 2006 Dr
Packalén has been the chairman of the board of the Finnish Club.
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 Spinverse Team
Spinverse Board
Board Members
Chairman of the Board:
Matti Packalen, M.Sc. ( Eng. ) and M.Sc. (Econ.), Dr. h. c.
Lars Gädda, Ph.D, Research Director, Forestcluster Ltd
Matti Kleimola, Professor, Senior Advisor, formerly CTO of Wärtsilä Corporation
Pekka Koponen, M.Sc., MBA, Managing Director, Spinverse Oy
Yrjö Neuvo, Professor, Technology Advisor, formerly CTO of Nokia Corporation
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