Board Members

Tony McGlinn, PMP
President

Tony is Director of the President of Finland chapter.

Tony has around 28 years experience of project management internationally, and currently works as manager of the project management office in the information management department of a large multinational manufacturing company.

Contact: tony.mcglinn (at) pmifinland.org

Ari Aaltonen, PMP
Secretary

Ari Aaltonen is secretary of PMI Chapter Finland since 2008. He works as Customer Project Manager at Ericsson and has more than 17 years of project management experience. Ari became PMP in April 2006 and graduated from the Tampere University of Technology in 1988.

Contact: ari.aaltonen (at) pmifinland.org

Seppo Halminen
Relationship Management

Seppo has had around 30 years of experience project management internationally.Seppo sponsored founding of the Finland Chapter. He also initiated Nokia's membership in PMI's Corporate Council and is member in PMI's Corporate Council team

Contact: Seppo.Halminen (at) pmifinland.org

Raimo Kaunismäki
Ttreasurer

Raimo Kaunismäki has Master of Science in Paper Technology and Industrial Economics from Helsinki University of Technology. Raimo has more than 10 years experience in project management internationally and has managed Major Pulp & Paper projects around the world. He is Department Manager for Project, Risk and Construction Management In Pöyry. He is previously worked in Major technology suppliers like Metso and Andritz.

Contact: raimo.kaunismaki (at) pmifinland.org

Matti Haukka
Eevent Coordinator

Matti Haukka has provided tailored project management training for various companies and worked as a consultant for several organizations of different fields since 1989. At Project Institute Finland he has been in charge of developing the ABC Project model™ and held numerous presentations about the topic in international project management conferences. Today he mainly trains experienced project managers, members of steering groups and board of directors and provides consulting services for clients who want to develop their project management cultures. His specialities are PM models , Project Portfolio Management and Earned Value Management. He also functions as the leader of “Portfolio Management and Program Management – SIG team” in Project Management Association Finland and is working as a main instructor of the IPMA Advanced Course “Managing corporate project portfolio

Contact: matti.haukka (at) pmifinland.org

Bernhard Korjonen PMP
Communications & Membership

Bernhard Korjonen (M.Sc. (econ), PMP) received his Master’s of Science Degree in Business Education from the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck, Austria in 2000. Mr. Korjonen began his career in 1992 as an operative and strategic controller when he joined his father’s family business, a medium sized construction business in Austria. In 1993 he took over the business which he successfully merged with another local company in Austria in 1996. Until 2003 he maintained his partnership in the company.
In 1998 Mr. Korjonen moved to Finland and pursued a career as a project management consultant and coach. Currently he is a Senior Project Management Consultant and Coach with Tieturi Oy in Helsinki, Finland.
Mr. Korjonen was has over 15 years of project experience, received his PMP in 2005, and is a PMI Finland Chapter Board Member since 2007.
Bernhard is responsible for Membership, internal communications, certification, and PDU’s.

Contact: bernhard.korjonen (at) pmifinland.org

Rajiv Arora, PMP
Certification & Events

I was one of the founding board members of PMI Finland Chapter in 2004. Left the board membership in 2007 due to rotation policy of the chapter. I have long international Project Management experience of about 20 years in Design – Engineering – Construction projects. Presently working as Senior Project Manager with Wärtsilä. Have been actively involved in competence development of Project Management during last 7-8 years. I graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from India in 1987 and got my PMP certification in 2002.

Contact: rajiv.arora (at) pmifinland.org

Katri Heinäsuo
Regional Vaasa Brakfast Roundtable

Katri has Master of Economic Sciences Degree in Human Resource Management from the University of Vaasa and BBA Degree in International Business and Marketing from Vaasa Polytechnic. Katri has around 7 years of experience in project management, mainly from management and marketing research projects and human resource development projects. She works currently as Development Manager in Wärtsilä corporate Project Management Office and is responsible for global concept design for project management competence development and knowledge transfer programs.

Contact: katri.heinasuo (at) pmifinland.org

Clara Nyman, PMP
Rregional Helsinki Breakfast Roundtable

Clara Nyman has been working within Telecommunication, Forestry industry and IT consulting during her professional career starting year 1996. She joined IBM in 2003 as part of M-real outsourcing their IT department. At IBM Clara has been working mostly as Project Manager in SAP implementation projects.She has a wide university degree, good working experience in both a national and international customer environment, experience of the international forest industry as well as thorough knowledge of IT-solutions and applications and an excellent knowledge of languages.

Contact: clara.nyman (at) pmifinland.org

Dean Pattrick, PMP
Webmaster

Dean Pattrick gained his engineering degree from Croydon College (UK) and his MBA from the Helsinki School of Economics. His current training journey is taking his down the path of ITILv3, where he has recently passed the foundation course, service transition & service operation.
Dean's engineering career began with the British Royal Air Force in 1985 where he was a telecommunications technician. After leaving the RAF he joined Nokia (UK) as a team leader on the roll out of GSM equipment across several different operators. In 1998 he relocated to Finland (still with Nokia) as a program manager for GPRS. From 1998 until 2007 Dean enjoyed working with several development projects/programs within the Services or Sales units of Nokia Networks. Since late 2007 Dean has been heading the Nokia Music program office.

Contact: dean.pattrick (at) pmifinland.org