Internet Security - F-Secure

F-Secure Board of Directors

The Annual General Meeting of F-Secure Corporation held on March 26, 2008 decided the number of Board members to be 6 members. The following members of the Board were re-elected for the period ending at the close of the next Annual General Meeting: Pertti Ervi, Sari Baldauf, Risto Siilasmaa, Alexis Sozonoff, Marko Ahtisaari and Juho Malmberg was elected as a new member.

Mr Risto Siilasmaa acts as the Chairman of Board of Directors of F-Secure Corporation.

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Risto Siilasmaa
Chairman of the Board
born 1966

Risto Siilasmaa is the founder of F-Secure and served as the President and CEO of the company until November 5, 2006. Since then he has held the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is also a Chairman of the Boards of  Elisa Corporation, Fruugo Inc and The Federation of Finnish Technology Industries. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Nokia Corporation, Blyk Ltd., Ekahau Inc., Nexit Ventures Oy, Efecte Corporation and Valimo Wireless Oy and a member of the Supervisory Board of Finpro. Mr. Siilasmaa is a member of Investement Council of Finnish Industry Investment Ltd, a Vice Chairman of the Board of Finnish-American Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Board of Directors of Confederation of Finnish Industries EK, a member of the Advisory Board of Communications Administration at Ministry of Transport and Communications in Finland, a member of Advisory Boards of the Helsinki University of Economics and Helsinki University of Technology.  He has studied at Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.

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Pertti Ervi
Member of the Board
Chairman of the Audit Committee
born 1957

Pertti Ervi is an independent consultant and investor. He has served on the Board since 2003. Mr Ervi is a Chairman of the Boards of Mentorium Venture Connection Oy, Inventure Oy and Trackway Oy. Mr. Ervi is also a member of the Boards of Forte Netservices Oy, Forte Groupservices Oy, Efecte Oy and Palape Oy. He co-founded Computer 2000 Finland Oy and served as a MD for the company until 1995. After that he worked as Co-President for Computer 2000 AG international headquarters in Munich, Germany. Mr Ervi has worked closely at international management level with major IT vendors like Cisco, IBM, Intel, HP and Microsoft. Mr Ervi holds a B.Sc/Electronics degree from Tekniska Läroverket (Swedish Institute of Technology) in Helsinki. He has also completed several financial and management studies.

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Sari Baldauf
Member of the Board
Chairman of the Executive Committee
born 1955

Sari Baldauf  has been a member of the Board of F-Secure since 2005 and chairs its Executive Committee. She serves also on the Board of Directors of CapMan Plc, Hewlett Packard Company, Sanoma Corporation, and Supervisory Board of Daimler AG. Previously she worked for more than twenty years with Nokia Corporation; as a member of the Group Executive Board, 1994-2005 and Executive Vice President and General Manager of Networks, 1998-2005.

In addition to business, her interest include work for the benefit of children & youth as well as culture. She serves on the Board of  International Youth Foundation, Foundation for Economic Education and EVA (Elinkeinoelämän Valtuuskunta). She is  a member of the Board of Trustees of Finnish Cultural Foundation, Global Advisory Board of IE Business School (Madrid) and Advisory Board of Helsinki School of Economics. She is Chairman of the Board of Savonlinna Opera Festival.
 
Ms Baldauf earned a B. Sc. degree in 1977 and Master of Science (Business Administration) in 1979 from the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland and she holds honorary doctorate degree from the Helsinki University of Technology and the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration.

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Alex Sozonoff
Member of the Board
born 1938

Alex Sozonoff has served as a member of the Board of F-Secure since 2005. Mr. Sozonoff has been working for Hewlett-Packard Company since 1967. In 1981 he worked for Harris Information Systems as Vice President of International Operations. He later rejoined HP and has been working in several positions, as HP's European General Manager of the Computer Products Sales and Distribution Organization, Vice President and General Manager of HP's Worldwide Channel Business and as General Manager of Computer Marketing and Operations, developing the e-World Vision for HP, which eventually became HP's e-services strategy. In 1997, he was named Executive of the Year by the North American National Account Management Association (NAMA). Mr. Sozonoff was Vice President of Customer Advocacy for Hewlett-Packard until his retirement in 2002. From this time onwards, he served as senior advisor to the CEO of HP.

In addition to acting as Chairman of Global Beach, a privately held interactive marketing organization based in London, Mr. Sozonoff serves as Chairman of European Wholesale Group (EWG), Switzerland. In addition he is Chairman of HP Finland Alex is also on the HP Russia Advisory Board. He has been a Member of the Board of the second largest Russian mobile operator VimpelCom until June 2005. He is also Vice Chairman of the Geneva-based Sir Peter Ustinov Charity Foundation.

Mr. Sozonoff holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and a degree from the Nijenrode University in Breukelen, Netherlands. He also graduated from the Wharton Advanced Management Program in 1995.

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Marko Ahtisaari
Member
of the Board
born 1969

Marko Ahtisaari has served as a member of the Board of F-Secure since 2007. Mr Ahtisaari is Head of Brand & Design at Blyk, the European free mobile operator for young people, funded by advertising. Blyk has been in development since 2006 and is backed by Sofinnova Partners. From January 2005 to September 2006 Mr Ahtisaari worked as Director of Design Strategy at Nokia. He joined Nokia in 2002 and held management positions in corporate strategy and venturing, always with a focus on creating new growth through better user experience. From 1999 to 2001 Mr Ahtisaari built and led the mobile practice at digital services company Satama Interactive. From 1994 to 1997 he was a lecturer, Fellow of the Faculty of Philosophy at Columbia University in the City of New York. Ahtisaari serves on the board of directors of Artek oy ab and is an advisor to FON, the largest WiFi community in the world. In 2006 he served on the jury of the international Prix Ars Electronica. Mr Ahtisaari is co-founder of the Aula network that organizes events in Finland with the world's leading experts on Internet service business and design. Marko Ahtisaari holds a BA degree summa cum laude in Economics and Philosophy and a MA degree in Philosophy from Columbia University in the City of New York.

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Juho Malmberg
Member of the Board
born 1962

Juho Malmberg has served as a member of the Board of F-Secure since 2008.  He is Executive Vice President, Development and a Member of Executive Board of KONE Corporation. Previously he has served as Managing Director of Accenture Finland 2002-2005, Director, Nordic Outsourcing of Accenture 2005, Deputy Managing Director 1999-2002 and Technology Director 1992-1999.  Juho Malmberg holds a M.Sc. (Computer Science).

Last modified:  01-Dec-2008