BUSINESS FORUM - Key Persons


Ari-Pekka Salovaara

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Ari-Pekka Salovaara is an angel investor and responsible for SMB customers at Visma. This includes companies in 10 different countries that generate 400 million revenues. Salovaara has done 30+ direct/indirect angel investments and he is a board of 15 companies.

Christoffer Omberg - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Executive Team

Hans Janssen - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder
  • Member of the Executive Team

Hans-Peter Siefen - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Group CEO
  • Member of the Executive Team

Jenny Wolfram

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Founder and CEO of BrandBastion
Jenny Wolfram is the founder and CEO of BrandBastion, a company that uses artificial intelligence to help brands have better conversations on social media while increasing their sales and improving their brand favorability. Wolfram was also nominated on the 30 under 30 list of Forbes magazine in 2017.

Jyri Lindén - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Co - Founder & Member of the Board
  • Founder & Member of the Board
Jyri Lindén is Business Forum Group's co-founder and a major owner together with Hans-Peter Siefen.

Mika Sutinen - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors
Mika Sutinen is a rewarded entrepreneur and leader. Many know him as the former CEO of Musti Group, a leading pet supply store chain in Finland. Currently, Sutinen is the industrial partner at Vaaka Partners and additionally serves as a member of the board or as the chairman in various companies such as Luhta, Reaktor, and Framery.

Priit Liiv - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Partner

Risto Lähdesmäki

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Co - Founder of Idean Ltd
Risto Lähdesmäki is the co-founder of Idean Ltd. He has over 15 years of experience in designing digital services, user interfaces, and user experiences, helping to shape the future of UX/UI branding across startups and Fortune 500 corporations. In 2012, he internationalized Idean in Silicon Valley. Since then, Idean has also expanded to multiple other areas in the US and in Europe.

Saku Tuominen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Saku Tuominen is an entrepreneur, author, and keynote speaker. He is the founder and creative director of a global education non-profit HundrED and co-founder of a restaurant company Financier Group. He has written 15 books on various topics like creativity, working life, the human mind, and internationalization.