New board of directors for the Havator Group
27.02.2007
New board of directors has been chosen to the corporate group in the Havator Group shareholders' meeting. Christer Granskog, the CEO of Kalmar Industries, as well as Tapio Hakakari, the CEO of Webstor and Esko Tulikoura have been asked to join the board of directors as new board members. The new Chairman of the Board is Erkki Hanhirova.
Board Member details:
From left to right: Christer Granskog, Esko Tulikoura, Erkki Hanhirova, Jussi Yli-Niemi, Jukka Teikari, Kaupthing Bank and Tapio Hakakari
Erkki Hanhirova
b. 1956
Chairman of the Board
Group President and the main owner of the Havator Group
Christer Granskog
b. 1947
Board Member
Master of Science in Engineering
CEO of Kalmar Industries
Granskog has previously acted as the CEO of Valmet
Automation, CEO of Sisu Group and as the Senior
Vice President of Partek
Tapio Hakakari
b. 1953
Board Member
Bachelor of Laws
CEO of Webstor
Hakakari has among other things acted as a manager, legal counsel and as the Board Secretary at the Kone Corporation
Esko Tulikoura
b. 1948
Board Member
Licentiate of Science in Economics and Business Administration (lic.oec. HSG)
Tulikoura has acted as the Senior Vice President of Skanska and the economic and financial manager of the Haka corporate group
"The fact that new members of the board have wide experience in managing large-scale enterprises and the professionalism of Jussi Yli-Niemi, who started working as the new CEO in the beginning of January, make a good starting point for future-building and the controlled growth of the Havator Group. It is a pleasure to start building the company with this assembly, which enables us to use an even wider international network than before", says Erkki Hanhirova, the Chairman of the Board.
Havator Group is the largest company in the crane rental industry in the Nordic Countries. The corporate group had a turnover of 60 million euros last year and it employed around 350 people. Havator Group operates in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia and Russia. Subsidiary company Havator Transport, which specialises in extra-heavy transports, is a market leader in its field in the Nordic Countries. The main office of the Havator Group is located at Tornio.
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