Hannu has had the luxury to work in multiple areas of the business from software development to business leadership during his 25 years of working experience. He has enjoyed most positions in business leadership areas, where intention is not only to optimise implementation and content but also sales. He likes to work with people, inspire them, and reach targets together. He started at Hansen 7 years ago. He holds Ph.D. from Helsinki University of Technology.

Executive Vice President, Corporate Customers and Markets since 31 March 2023.
In addition, Simon-Erik Ollus is also responsible for Fortum’s group strategy development. 

Education: M.Soc.Sc. (Economics)
Member of the Fortum Leadership Team: since 2021
Employed by Fortum: since 2009 

Previous positions:  
Fortum Corporation: Member of the Fortum Executive Management and Executive Vice President, Generation 2021–2023.
Vice President, Trading and Asset Optimisation, Generation Division 2016–2021
Chief Economist & Vice President, Industrial Intelligence and Investment Analysis, Fortum Corporate and Fortum Power Division 2013–2016.
Chief Economist & Vice President, Industrial Intelligence and Trading IT, Trading and Industrial Intelligence 2011–2013.
Various leadership positions in trading, industrial intelligence, strategy and R&D in 2009–2011.
Advisor, East Office of Finnish Industries 2008–2009.
Economist, Bank of Finland 2004–2008. 

Tom Darell is the Chief Executive Officer of Nord Pool, the pioneering European Power Exchange. Established in Norway in 1993, Nord Pool now operates the physical power market for Day-ahead and Intraday trading across 16 European countries.

Since 2020, it has been majority-owned by Euronext.Tom joined Nord Pool as CEO in April 2022, bringing extensive experience in the energy and telecommunications industries. He has a proven track record of leading diverse organizations and navigating international business complexities. Before Nord Pool, Tom was Executive Vice President for Energy at Volue and Powel, and he has held senior roles at Avaya, Bene Agere Nordic, and Ericsson.

Tom holds an MBA from IESE Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Oregon.

Jukka Toivonen, CEO Vantaa Energy
Jukka Toivonen has been CEO of Vantaa Energy since 2019. Prior to his position as CEO of Vantaa Energy Toivonen has worked in multiple roles in the energy sector since 90’s.

Toivonen sees that frontrunning in the energy transition requires unprecedented innovativeness, agility and courage from energy companies. Vantaa Energy has the competence to innovate and combine various technological solutions into unique mutually supportive entities that will enable the company to proceed towards carbon negativity in 2030. Toivonen strongly believes that Vantaa Energy has an excellent possibility to be one of the winners of the energy transition in the long term.

Toivonen has an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Economy from the Tampere University of Technology and an MBA in International Marketing and Finance from Aalto University.

Tobias Federico studied Energy and Process Engineering (Diploma) at the Technische Universität Berlin. He started his career at international consulting and research companies. He founded Energy Brainpool in 2003 and is active Managing Director since then. Tobias Federico developed one of the first short-term forecasts for the electricity price development at spot markets and in 2005 the long-term fundamental energy market model Power2Sim for the long-term electricity price development. Tobias Federico has the project lead on portfolio and risk management and acts as lead analyst for studies on the energy market design, integration of renewable energies as well as trainer and lecturer at national and international seminars, events and conferences. He is also a proven expert on Blockchain in the energy industry. As a certified trainer, Tobias Federico is conducting seminars for exchange traders in consultation with the European Energy Exchange (EEX AG) and the European Power Exchange (EPEX SPOT SE). Since 2024 Energy Brainpool is part of Montel.

Mika Rissa is responsible for energy and utilities industry strategy at Hansen Technologies. He advises key accounts and drives strategic solution initiatives in the energy industry. Mika’s focus areas cover digital customer experience, power trading, market-driven operations of energy storages and virtual power plants, robotic process automation, cloud enablement and big data analytics & ML/AI.

Mika’s earlier roles include SVP Product at One Data, senior industry solution management roles at Oracle and management consulting roles at SAP Business Consulting. He has been an advisor to several startups. Mika has an MBA from Henley Business School at the University of Reading.

Suvi Paaso is the Managing Director of Power-Deriva Oy, an investment service company based in Helsinki, Finland. With over two decades of experience in the energy sector, Suvi leads Power-Deriva in providing top-tier services in energy derivatives trading, risk management, and market analysis. Before joining Power-Deriva, Suvi held several key positions on market risk management at Fortum Oyj. Suvi’s extensive expertise spans across electricity and commodity derivatives markets, risk management, and data management projects. She is known for her strategic leadership, ability to drive business development, and commitment to advancing sustainable energy solutions.