Pia Erkinheimo works at The Finnish Climate Fund as a member of the executive team, being responsible for dealflow and customer relationships. Her background is from companies like Nordea, Nokia and Capgemini, where she has been working with Nordic VCs, corporate strategy and open innovation and M&A. The European Commission has benefitted from her S&T&I experience for +15 years as innovation expert and jury member e.g., Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, EIC Accelerator and as a Rapporteur for OISPG, Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group. She has also been advising G7 in questions related to AI, Big Data and Future of Work. Besides that, she is a member of the board at the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, and is or has been involved in half a dozen growth companies either as an investor, board member or member of the executive team. She is a member of FiBAN, Finnish Business Angels Network where she was also a member of the board in 2018. Pia is a co-founder of Women in Tech Finland, network of companies standing for diversity and inclusion.

Virpi is a RDI professional with experience in coaching and supporting companies in their sustainable growth and internationalization. Virpi believes that research and innovations are strong tools to tackle wicked problems as well as the source of economic growth and prosperity. Virpi is very interested in how companies can develop new innovations and processes to solve societal problems such as climate-change.

Søren works as Investment Manager at Nefco where he for more than five years has helped Nordic SMEs scale up their green solution and go international. Before Nefco, he worked as Senior Planning Officer in the City of Helsinki’s Enterprise Services’ Growth Team helping young companies internationalise their business.

13 years of experience in venture capital, R&D and business development expertise in the energy sector. Former positions: Fortum CVC, Pöyry Management Consulting, startup company board and advisory seats.

Tom Siegfrids is part of Finnveras Growth and Internationalisation Team, working with financing and export credit solutions for SME and mid-cap companies. Finnvera Plc is the Expory Credit Agency of Finland.