CEO
born 1965
Vocational Qualification in Business and Administration
Employed Gasum since 1, March 2022
Member of the Board of Suomen Urheiluopiston Kannatusosakeyhtiö (SUK) since 2020
Member of the Board of Vierumäen Infra Oy since 2020
Member of the Board of Vierumäki Sports Oy since 2020
Member of the Board of Vierumäen Kumina Oy since 2020
Vice President, Maritime
M.Sc (Econ.), Master Mariner
born 1978
Employed by Gasum since 2019
Vice President, Projects and Biogas Production
Business School of Norway (BI)
born 1960
Employed by Gasum since 1.5.2020
Chair of the Board of Energigas Norge
CFO
M.Sc (Econ.)
born 1970
Employed by Gasum since 2019
Member of the Board of Euroclear Finland Oy and Chair of Risk Committee since 2020
Senior Vice President, Supply and Trading
DIHM Diploma in Business Management & Finance
born 1972
Employed by Gasum since 2020
Vice President, Industry and Traffic
M.Sc (Econ.)
born 1970
Employed by Gasum since 2007
Vice President, IT and Legal
M.Sc. (Food Economics)
born 1977
Employed by Gasum since 2021
Vice President, Commercial Product Management
M.Sc (Energy Econ.)
born 1976
Employed by Gasum since 2016
Vice President, Communications and Sustainability
M.Sc (Econ.)
born 1977
Employed by Gasum since 2011
The Gasum Ltd Board of Directors has a minimum of three and a maximum of eight members. The members of the Board of Directors are elected by the annual general meeting of shareholders for a term of office of one year at a time that ends at the end of the next annual general meeting of shareholders. The number of Board members is decided by the Annual General Meeting. The Annual General Meeting decided on April 22nd, 2022 the number of Board members for the next term of office is seven.
The Board members are elected by the Annual General Meeting from among representatives of shareholders and independent non-executive experts with experience in business and the sector. The composition of the Board of Directors must support the implementation of the company’s strategy, and efforts are made to ensure the Board’s diversity, with the aim being to achieve a balanced gender distribution in the Board. The Chairperson and, where necessary, deputy Chairperson are elected by the General Meeting of Shareholders.
The Chairperson of the Board of Directors is Elina Engman. Vice Chair of the Board of Directors is Stein Dale. The Secretary of the Board of Directors is Maaret Stepanoff, Gasum Legal Counsel.
Tasks of the Board of Directors:
Strengthening the Gasum strategy and supervising its implementation
Seeing to the administration of the company and the appropriate organization of its operations in compliance with the Limited Liability Companies Act and the Articles of Association
Appointing the Gasum Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and deciding on the terms of the CEO’s service contract
Deciding on the principles of the Group’s remuneration system
Ensuring the appropriate organization of the supervision of the company’s accounting and financial matters
Approving the financial statements
Deciding on significant loans, business combinations and divestments as well as investments and approving the budgets and risk management principles
Adopting the objectives of the Group’s human resources plans and overseeing their implementation
Self-evaluation
The Board of Directors has adopted a written charter for its work, specifying the Board’s duties and working principles. The Board conducts an annual internal self-evaluation of its operations and working methods.
Committees
The Board has set up two committees to improve the efficiency of Board work: the Audit and Risk Committee and the HR Committee. The Board nominates the members and Chairpersons of the Committees from among its members and confirms the Committees’ charters. The Committees may only exercise autonomous decision-making power in matters authorised separately by the Board and in other matters act as preparatory bodies, with their proposals for resolutions brought separately before the Board for decision-making.
Chair of the Board
M.Sc (Eng.)
born 1970
Chair of the Board of Gasum since 5 March 2020
Member of the Board of Gasum since 2017
Chair of the HR Committee.
Executive Vice President of Caverion since 2020
Member of the Board of Versowood
Chairman of the Board of Aurora Infrastructure Oy
Vice Chair of the Board
M.Sc (Business), Executive Education from IMD and Harvard Business School
born 1962
Member of the Board of Gasum since 23 March 2017
Member of the HR Committee
Chairman of Oslofjord Varme AS
Member of the board of Nettpartner AS and General Oceans AS
Member of the Board
M.Sc (Econ.)
born 1965
Member of the Board of Gasum since 31 March 2023
Member of the HR Committee
Ministerial Adviser, Financial Affairs, Ownership Steering Department, Prime Minister’s Office
Member of the Board
M.Sc (Econ.)
Born 1970
Member of the Board of Gasum since 22 April 2022
Chair of the Audit and Risk committee
CFO, VR Group since 2021
Member of the Board
Master of Laws, Trained on the bench
born 1959
Member of the Board of Gasum since 31 March 2023
Member of the Audit and Risk committee
Vice Chair of the Board of Enersense Oyj
Member of the Board of Nammo AS
Member of the Board
M.Sc (Eng.)
born 1961
Member of the Board of Gasum since 5 March 2020
Member of the Audit and Risk committee
CEO of Colliers International Finland Oy
Member of the Board of Colliers International Finland Oy since 2019
Member of the Board of Aii Corporation Ltd.