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As CEO, Eero is in charge of leading our company and personnel: making sure we are working in line with our values, creating the foundation for a great atmosphere and team spirit, and most importantly creating customer value and an exceptional customer experience.

Before joining Q Power, Eero has about 25 years of experience in leadership positions of a service company active in the energy and forestry industries.

When off work, Eero enjoys spending time with his family, a close-knit group of three generations. While Eero doesn’t have children of his own, he is happy to be part of the close group. One important member is the Labrador, who keeps Eero and his wife on the move during free-time. Eero also enjoys playing golf, although he admits to having not played as much as he would have liked in recent years.

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Anni is in charge of R&D as well as the operation of our biological processes and IPR. Anni also handles issues related to environmental permits and chemical safety. Anni feels privileged to work with a competent and talented team.

Before moving to the private sector, Anni worked as a researcher at the Natural Resources Institute Finland. The multidisciplinary team she was a member of worked to create sustainable solutions from the bottom up. During her time at the Institute, Anni was involved from a very early stage in the development of the current-day biological technologies of Q Power. Indeed, her research work included a substantial amount of commercialization of innovations and research.

During her doctoral studies, Anni studied bioprocess engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology, and her doctoral dissertation was related to the fractioning of nutrients contained in slurry.

Anni as born in the Northern Ostrobothnia region of Finland into a family of agricultural entrepreneurs. An entrepreneurial spirit and a strong drive to develop things was ingrained in Anni by her childhood environment. Anni is extremely concerned about climate change and wants to work hard towards building a better future for our children.

In her free-time, Anni likes to enjoy nature with her family. When she finds the time, she also likes to play the piano.

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Heikki is in charge of external and internal communications as well as public affairs at Q Power. One of the key goals for Heikki is to ensure that the value of Q Power’s unique technologies and solutions is clearly communicated for all to understand. On the other hand Heikki works towards increasing the public understanding about synthetic fuels and their role in mitigating and adapting to climate change. Heikki is also in charge of our media relations and maintains dialogues with relevant political processes and decision-makers of our field. The diverse, challenging and meaningful job Heikki deals with keeps him fresh and energetic.

Heikki holds a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Management, minoring in energy technology, from Aalto University in Helsinki. Before joining Q Power, Heikki was active in leadership positions in the higher education field. He has also actively taken part in higher education advocacy work in Finland, having during his studies been president of the National Union of University Students in Finland (SYL).

Heikki is deeply interested (and concerned) in climate change and the broader ecological crisis as well as how societies can get to a more sustainable path. In his free-time, Heikki produced a podcast related to the sustainable transition called Rajalla (in Finnish), and he occasionally writes blog posts on the topic. Heikki also takes great pleasure in active sports, especially running and kettlebelling, in addition to which he sings in an a cappella group called The Händful. Heikki also enjoys good conversations and cooking with his partner and close friends.

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Sami is in charge of sales and marketing at Q Power, and spends most of his time managing and creating customer relationships. The way Sami sees it, his primary focus is to understand the needs of a customer and match them with the Q Power offering to create a profitable and sustainable energy solution. Sami finds it interesting to be active in creating a new market and hastening the transition from fossil fuels to emission-free alternatives.

Sami has an educational and professional background in business and sales, and he is experienced in various expert and leadership positions in the sales and marketing field. Sami has previously done both domestic and international volume and project-based sales, and has successfully managed a wide range of customer accounts. In addition to his business expertise, Sami has always had an interest in technology, and will nowadays even venture to claim he has learned a lot about the topic.

Sami has always spent plenty of time at sea and in the archipelago. A family farm in Somero is a nice counter-balance for office work. Sami recently finished building a greenhouse at his Turku home, and intends on starting micro-scale local food production. Sports of various kinds are important pastimes for Sami.

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Marko is in charge of the development and order fulfillment of our methanation and gasification solutions. He is well versed in the energy sector and takes part in new projects all the way from techno-economic calculations onwards. Marko is most excited when he sees an idea from R&D turn all the way into a concrete product and a value-creating solution for our customers. Marko is always thrilled every time we find a new application for our technologies.

Before Q Power, Marko has a background in the academic world, more specifically at the Natural Resources Institute Finland. For years before the founding of Q Power, Marko had been researching the core biological processes of our current technologies as well as designing and building the first test reactors, automation and other hardware to utilize the developed processes. All in all, Marko knows the Q Power technologies backward and forward.

By training, Marko is an academic agronomist, and he received his master’s degree at the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry at the University of Helsinki. His education, emphasizing systems thinking, offered a strong foundation for understanding natural processes and building bio-based technologies.

In his free-time, Marko enjoys spending time with his spouse. The rest of his family and friends are also a highly important part of life for Marko. Marko likes to unwind by renovating old buildings, tweaking old cars and other machines, working on the land and wandering in nature. Marko is excited about the prospect of a radical breakthrough of new, sustainable energy technologies and has happily noted the public sentiment toward new energy solutions becoming more favorable.

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As Project manager, Janne is in charge of Q Power customer projects. In individual projects, his responsibilities include delivery and installation of plants, planning project staffing and scheduling and costing of projects. Janne is also actively involved in the commissioning of a new plant in cooperation with our staff responsible for the biological process. Janne has worked as PM for our test facilities, and is also actively involved in product development.

Janne is especially interested in working with and developing the new and challenging technology. Janne is motivated by being able to develop and produce truly environmentally friendly energy.

Before joining Q Power, Janne had about 15 years of experience in various positions in the energy industry. In his previous positions, Janne was in charge of the production, distribution and permitting of district heating as well as the operation, maintenance and construction management of district heating networks.

In his freetime, Janne enjoys time out on the sea, taking part in competitive sailing. During winter time, Janne takes pleasure in telemark skiing and ice sailing.

Risto spends his days working on our biological processes and Q Power R&D. He is especially happy to be able to continuously develop new things on the job.

Risto has almost 40 years of experience working at the Agricultural Research Center and Natural Resources Institute of Finland. Over the years, he has participated in numerous projects and research initiatives together with a plethora of stakeholders.

Risto keeps busy in his free-time by working on various tasks of his home farm. He enjoys spending time with his grandchildren, wife and numerous pets. Risto is an enthusiastic photographer, especially enjoying theatre photography, and one of his dreams is to get hold of an old field camera.

Peter is in charge of many crucial planning aspects of the Q Power offering – he regularly does mechanical and plant design as well as electrical design work. A talented engineer such as Peter is an invaluable part of our technical design team, which tends to have their hands full of interesting work. Peter also coordinates the work of our subcontractors, does installation work when needed and builds various kinds of testing equipment.

While Peter is an electrical engineer by training, in his career thus far he has primarily done mechanical design work.

In his spare time, Peter is a part-time farmer and also engages in forest maintenance work. Peter is an active hunter and likes to take part in various different sports. Currently this number one athletic activity is Tae kwon do, in addition to which he enjoys running, golf and downhill skiing.

Ville works in the cross-section of our R&D and technology design functions. Ville is especially excited to get to constantly develop and try out new things. At Q Power, there’s always something new to be built and tried, as we develop and hone our solutions. Ville likes how there’s always something new to learn, and he regularly enjoys moments of sudden realization.

Ville is a MSc (tech.) from the University of Tampere, where he studied in the program of environmental and energy engineering. Ville joined Q Power for his masters’ thesis project.

In his free-time, Ville enjoys trekking in the forest as well as producing and listening to music.