Hannu has had the luxury to work in multiple areas of the business from software development to business leadership during his 25 years of working experience. He has enjoyed most positions in business leadership areas, where intention is not only to optimise implementation and content but also sales. He likes to work with people, inspire them, and reach targets together. He started at Hansen 7 years ago. He holds Ph.D. from Helsinki University of Technology.

Timo has almost 30 years of experience with Hansen’s customers and products in different business roles. He is a customer-oriented person with a desire to provide customers with the best possible service from Hansen. Currently, his role is new customer sales with a focus in Northern Europe.

I have worked for Hansen and its predecessors in Finland for a good 18 years. I started in the maintenance team, and after several different phases I have ended up in the account management team.

Juha-Pekka Einamo is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of diverse experience in the energy utility business, software industry, and consulting. He possesses an in-depth understanding of energy utility markets and has a comprehensive grasp of fture trends in the Nordics and Europe.

He has demonstrated his ability to excel in various roles. His key competencies include B2B sales, agile software design and implementation, business unit management, and customer-centric consultative approaches. He has been instrumental in enabling the largest Nordic energy utilities to transition into digital-driven platforms. He has a proven track record of introducing new software products and services to the market swiftly, along with effective sales and delivery strategies. His expertise in customer interaction and business value creation reflects his consultative approach.

Kakin lives in the Netherlands and has a MSc in Aerospace Engineering. He started his career as options trader, but then decided to work for a leading Energy Utility company in the Netherlands driving IT/Business transformation programs. He started at Hansen as Program manager leading the Dutch DSO Datahub Program to bring 7 DSOs and more than 18 million metering points live. Kakin is now leading accounts of key Customers, supporting these Customers to accelerate their Digital Energy transition and Customer Experience journey.

Herkko Plit is an industry veteran in the energy sector, with experience in demanding leadership positions in both companies and the public sector. He has founded the company P2X Solutions and currently serves as its CEO. P2X is pioneering the production of green hydrogen in Finland. Previously, Herkko has worked as the CEO of the state-owned company Baltic Connector Oy, an industrial counselor at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, and has had roles in the European Commission and Fortum.

Joining Hansen Team in autumn 2022, Johanna brings in 10+ years of experience in Finnish energy market, the processes and the people. In a quickly changing world with a need to handle more complicated issues within a shorter time, Johanna brings in a pragmatic approach. “What are the options? What is the best solution?”. Working together is needed, no one has answers on their own.

Heidi is a Product Owner with software development expertise in Forest, Health, and Energy industries.
She is skilled in transferring customer and end user needs to developers during the development process, and in solution and problem investigation skills. She has an end-to-end workflow mindset; she is persistent and has a high standard in project management.

Hansen’s Chief Customer Officer since early 2023 and part of Hansen since 2009, David Castree brings to Hansen decades of expertise as a Programme Manager and IT consulting specialist with a deep understanding of client, people, project, and financial management.

In his capacity as Chief Customer Officer, David is responsible for ensuring Hansen’s large base of customers experience the best of service from our team of industry and technology experts and that our products enable them to continue on their transformation journeys.

Christian Rautjärvi is HansenCIS Product Manager in Finland since December 2022. He has several years of experience in different business roles from the electricity market. His role in Hansen is managing and optimizing the products fit to Finnish market, today and in the future.

Research Group of Energy Conversion and Systems
Department of Mechanical Engineering
School of Engineering, Aalto University

Árpád is a Project Specialist at Aalto University’s Research Group of Energy Conversion and Systems where he conducts and supervises a broad range of Power-to-X-related research, from optimizing the production of green hydrogen using data driven methods to the synthesis, techno-economics and social acceptance of renewable fuels. He earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Singapore-MIT Alliance and worked for 6 years in the pharmaceutical industry before joining Aalto.

Mika Rissa is responsible for energy and utilities industry strategy at Hansen Technologies. He advises key accounts and drives strategic solution initiatives in the energy industry. Mika’s focus areas cover digital customer experience, power trading, market-driven operations of energy storages and virtual power plants, robotic process automation, cloud enablement and big data analytics & ML/AI.

Mika’s earlier roles include SVP Product at One Data, senior industry solution management roles at Oracle and management consulting roles at SAP Business Consulting. He has been an advisor to several startups. Mika has an MBA from Henley Business School at the University of Reading.

Tiina joined Hansen in autumn 2020 and she has 20 years’ experience from customer service. Her passion is testing of end2end processes and getting to know new functionalities and solutions.

Reima Neva is the CEO of EPV Tase Oy and the Vice president of Energy management & ict unit of EPV Energia Oy, Finland. Neva has been leading the EPV Energy group energy management and ict-architecture systems development and operations for 15 years. Neva has thirty years of electricity market and energy information systems experience in several positions in Finnish power companies, utilities and industry software consultants company. Neva graduated M.Sc. Electrical Engineering in Tampere University of Technology in 1992.

Riikka has over 15 years of experience in Hansen’s MDM business in different roles from project engineering to project, account, and product management. In her previous roles Riikka has been involved with customers in Finland as well as in the DACH region.  She is leading the team developing the newest version of Hansen MDM from the very beginning to its current success and has experienced firsthand what it takes to lead a new product from the sketch board to production.

Contributes to Fortums Customer and Market Intelligence Leadership team with 15+ years of experience from power market development in a European setting, management consultancy as well as large scale Energy IT projects.  In this role, he has the responsibility of forming and driving Fortums global view on energy market regulation as well as supporting CMI in developing its offering.

Aligned with Fortums strategy, he provides advocacy for better energy markets which are utterly needed to enable decarbonization over the next decades

Sakari has nearly 25 years of experience in Hansen’s MDM business in different roles from project engineering to project, account, and product management. In his previous roles Sakari has been involved with customers in Nordics, Netherlands as well as in the DACH region. He is leading teams developing Hansen MDM-G and has experienced firsthand what it takes to deliver large systems to production.

Tiina has worked since 2008 with Hansen MDM-G system in DACH market area first as test engineer and later as project manager and product owner. In the past 10 years she has been working in energy data management projects with various German and Swiss customers with market roles such as DSO, retailer, and Balance responsible roles.

Sami Väliviita works in Hansen as a development manager. During his time in Hansen, he has worked with various Hansen products and solutions: Hansen MDM, District Heating Optimization (DHO) and Hansen Trade.

Before joining Hansen, Sami worked in the telecommunications domain managing different R&D teams ranging from feature development to product introduction to customers and customer support.

Vesa has over 20 years of experience in Hansen’s MDM business in different roles from software development to services, account, and product management. In her previous roles Vesa has been involved with customers in the Nordics as well as in the DACH region. Currently, Vesa is leading a team developing Hansen’s next generation MDM product.

Andreas holds dual B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business Administration, with over 18 years of professional experience working with electricity markets, flexibility, and automated workflows. He currently serves as the Head of Physical Trading at Jämtkraft, where he engages daily in strategic thinking and team development.

Marko Juslin is Fingrid Datahub Oy Product Manager since January 2022. Before that he was responbile for the purchase of the datahub system and worked as project manager in Fingrid Datahub Oy for the project 1.0. He has several years of experience in different business roles from the electricity and energy market.

His role in Fingrid Datahub is managing and developing of datahub to fit better to Finnish market, today and in the future.

Jyri has over 10 years of experience from power trading, asset management and trading IT. Jyri launched Hansen Trade business in 2018 and currently he leads Hansen Trade R&D and participates also in sales and delivery processes.

Sanna joined Hansen in Autumn 2022. She has over 15 years experience from energy business and customer service. Her focus is in process development and she values cooperation with all stakeholders.

Jesper is a very experience project manager professional and specialist with many years of experience from Energy & Utilities area. Since 2008 he has managed both MDM/EDM-systems (Meter Data Management, Energy Data Management) and CIS systems (Customer Information System) delivery projects from offering phase to final customer acceptance to customers in Finland, Sweden, and Estonia, and has been in charge for developing and maintaining internal project management practices. He has experience in leading teams with HR responsibility, full customer commitment responsibility, and acted as Product Manager for CIS system delivery, leading a team of up to 10 professionals with overall development and delivery of customer commitments.