Jaakko Nikkilä appointed Executive Vice President, UPM Specialty Papers
June 27 2019 - 9:15AM
UPM-Kymmene
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27 June 2019 at 16:15 EET
Jaakko Nikkilä appointed
Executive Vice President, UPM Specialty Papers
Jaakko Nikkilä has been
appointed Executive Vice President responsible for UPM Specialty
Papers business area as of 1 July 2019. He will be based in
Helsinki reporting to Jussi Pesonen, President
and CEO.
Jaakko Nikkilä is currently Senior Vice President
for UPM Specialty Papers European and North American business unit.
He has been in his current role since 2018. Before that he was
responsible for UPM Specialty Papers sales in APAC region, based in
Shanghai for five years. He joined UPM in 1995.
Jaakko holds a Master's degree in Engineering and
Industrial management from Helsinki University of Technology and
eMBA from Aalto University. He is 52 years old and a Finnish
citizen.
"Jaakko has a broad understanding of the entire
value chain in the specialty paper business. He has exceptionally
strong experience in doing business in Asia. I know him as a team
player and a person who delivers. UPM Specialty Papers is in an
interesting phase with growth investments in Germany, China and
Finland proceeding well. I am confident that Jaakko's active input
will bring this growth step to a successful conclusion," says
Pesonen.
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