#SFAEM2016

CHRISTIAN RAMBERG, MANAGING DIRECTOR, PORT OF TURKU

Christian Ramberg has 30 years of working experience within the Finnish transport and logistics industry. He is a member of and involved in several business and logistic organisations in Finland such as the Finnish Port Association, Turku Chamber of Commerce, World Trade Center Turku,  Turku University Centre of Maritime Studies. Mr Ramberg is also a member in maritime related projects such as ESPO Intermodal, Logistics & Industry Committee and  Scandinavian-Mediterranean Core Network Corridor Forum. Mr Ramberg has been the Managing Director at the Port of Turku since 2000.

Moderator: MATS JOHANSSON, HEAD OF TRANSPORTATION, NESTE 

Mats Johansson has extensive competency in shipping, be it road, sea or railway transportations or a combination of them. His career started in the 90's at Railship from where he continued to Finncarriers during this time he was also located both in Moscow and in London. Mr Johansson has experience in both operations, marketing and sales as well as managerial and executive duties. Besides Railship and Finncarriers his employers include Railtrans, Containerships and TransAtlantic. 

OLE VIDAR NILSEN, HEAD OF PRODUCT MARKETING, GLOBAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, MARITIME, DNV GL AS

Ole Vidar Nilsen has worked for 15 years in DNV GL. The last 7 years in various roles with Maritime Business Development. Previously work experience Mr Nielsen has from Bureau Veritas in France, Sweden, and Poland; offshore supply in the US, and maritime consultancy, UK. Naval architect from NTNU and MBA from UCLA. 

Interviewer: ULLA TAPANINEN, SENIOR SPECIALIST, ADJUNCT PROFESSO, PhD, CITY OF HELSINKI 

Ulla Tapaninen, Adjunct Professor PhD, has over 25 years’ experience in logistics and maritime transport research and development work. She received her PhD  in 1997 in logistics modelling. She has worked for ten years as a  development manager and environmental manager in a large Finnish RoRo-shipping company Finnlines Plc. Between 2006 – 2012 she worked as a professor of maritime logistics in the University of Turku specialising in maritime and port operations as well as maritime safety. 

MATTI TOIVANEN, MANAGING DIRECTOR, OY KUEHNE + NAGEL LTD

Matti Toivanen has worked for Kuehne + Nagel since 2002 in various positions from Sales, Key Account Management, Director Contract Logistics and since 2012 as Managing Director. In his career Mr Toivanen has been involved in logistics from Logistics Service Provider perspective and has a good view on building partnerships and collaboration models in logistics on global scale.

Having lived in multiple countries including 8 years in Asia Mr Toivanen is an international individual who is driven by entrepreneurial spirit and his passion is to create value to customers and employees.  

MARKKU LEPPÄNEN, SENIOR RELAITIONSHIP MANAGER, 

NORDEA BANK FINLAND  

Markku Leppänen has worked 33 years in Nordea Bank and its predecessors of which last twenty years with shipping finance representing Nordea Shipping, Offshore and Oil Services division having responsibility of shipping customer relationships in Finland and Baltic states. 

Moderator: ANDREI GUSEV, MANAGING PARTNER, BORENIUS ATTORNEYS LTD 

Andrei Gusev is the Head of Borenius’ St. Petersburg office since February 2013. He has over 25 years of experience of providing strategic consulting services to both western investors launching on the post-Soviet markets and to CIS investors becoming active on markets in Western Europe. Mr Gusev is well versed in cross-border structuring, crisis management, corporate investigations, handling cases that involve white-collar crime, and conducting and settling cases by applying alternative procedures (known as ADR), including mediation.

Panelist: ULLA VON WEISSENBERG, PARTNER, BORENIUS ATTORNEYS LTD

Ulla von Weissenberg advises on all aspects of international maritime and transport law and international trade. In addition she advises clients in a wide range of insurance related issues. She is also experienced in issues relating to shipbuilding and ship purchase. Mrs von Weissenberg frequently represents domestic and international clients before courts and arbitral tribunals in matters falling under her speciality – inter alia from shipbuilding disputes to collisions, cargo claims, contractual disputes within logistics and trade. She heads the Shipping, Transport and Insurance practise of Attorneys at law Borenius Ltd. She has been a Partner at Borenius Attorneys Ltd since 2012. She has worked in the shipping industry with legal matters since 1994. 

Panelist: STEFAN VAN DOORSLAER, GENERAL DIRECTOR, AHLERS CIS & 

THE BALTIC STATES 

Stefan Van Doorslaer has a university background in engineering and business administration, as well as the MBA. He spent his career in the sphere of logistics, and being Belgian living in the logistic center of Europe did not stop him from working in Italy, Spain and Russia. Today he successfully combines the function of a General Director Ahlers CIS & The Baltic States with the position of a Chairman of the Executive Committee of St. Petersburg International Business Association (SPIBA). 

ALEXANDER SOLOVYEV, GENERAL DIRECTOR, VYBORG SHIPYARD PJSC

Alexander Solovyev has more than 15 years of experience in legal domain. Chairman of the Leningrad regional representation of the all-Russia public organisation Russian Engineering Union. In 2000 Mr Solovyev headed Legal Department of Vyborg Shipyard  JSC (VSY). In 2005-2006 he was Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of VSY, alongside in office of General Director of the major shareholder of VSY ZAO AKO BARSS Group (Saint Petersburg). In 2012 Mr Solovyev became First Deputy General Director of Vyborg Shipyard and from June 2012 General Director of Vyborg Shipyard. 

15.30 ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS

16.30 PAX RECEPTION               

17.30 DINNER