Chairman of the Board
Tom Anderzén has worked in various business development positions in a number of manufacturing and finance companies, most recently as Group VP, Development and Strategy at Huhtamaki. Previously, he has also led IT organizations in several companies such as ABB and IBM. Anderzén also brings to the Quva Board experience of running and organizing continuous improvement in corporations, especially based on the Lean Six Sigma methodology. At present, Anderzén acts as a board professional and serves several companies as a management consultant.
Board Member
Leif Frilund is seasoned business leader with a long experience in building international businesses through innovations, expansion of production platforms and acquisitions. Since 2007, Frilund is President and CEO of the international packaging materials company Walki Group, which he joined from a position as CEO of the Swiss based process instruments firm, the BTG Group. Before that he held a number of executive positions at Ahlstrom Corporation and has worked as the CEO of Albany Fennofelt Oy. Leif Frilund has a broad experience of board memberships in European privately owned companies.
CEO
Olli Pasanen, a co-founder at Quva, has been creating new start-ups since 2008 as a management consultant, seed investor or co-founder— and always in a pretty hands-on manner. In 2001–2006, Pasanen acted as the CEO of Ionific Oy, a high-growth telecom and healthcare software company. Ionific was acquired by the Bangalore headquartered Sasken Communication Technologies in 2006. For Sasken, Pasanen worked as a Global Head of Sales in Telecom in 2006–2008.