#SFAEM2018

ULLA KEINO, CEO, SEAFOCUS 

Ulla Keino´s over 30 years of experience of shipping started with Metsä Group in 1986, following a career of 8 years in the Stora Enso Group (former Enso Plc). During these years she was responsible of mainly short sea shipping and especially of internal waterway shipments of forest products, paper, paperboard, timber and pulp. She was an important customer for the German, Finnish and Russian shipowners and shipbrokers. She has held important positions in the several Finnish industries and governmental initiated projects related to forest industry logistics and governmental maritime infrastructure and development projects.

TAPANI VOIONMAA, CHAIRMAN, THE FINNISH SHIPOWNERS´ ASSOCIATION 

Tapani Voionmaa works as a Group General Counsel at the Finnlines Plc. He is also the Secretary to the Board of Directors since 2009 and a Member of the Executive Committee since 2013. Mr. Voionmaa graduated from the University of Helsinki with the degrees of Master Mariner in 1977 and LL.M. in 1984. He has Post Graduate Diplomas from King’s College, London, 1998 and 2001. Prior to that he worked as a Lawyer and Assistant Lawyer to several companies, for example, Neptun Maritime Oy, SCP Villeneau-Rohart-Simon, Paris and S.A. Louis Dreyfus, Paris, Assistant Lawyer.

Panelist: MATTEO NATALI, SENIOR MANAGER, DIGITAL, WÄRTSILÄ 

Matteo Natali started his career in the Project Management team of Wärtsilä Ship Design in Norway. After three years, he moved back to Trieste and joined Wärtsilä Engines Technical Sales department, where he was responsible first for gas carriers and then for ferries. Mr. Matteo recently moved to the Wärtsilä Marine Solutions Digital, where he was given the challenge of leading the incubation of new digital businesses. This means scouting the market for new opportunities, exploring emerging technology, executing strategic partnerships, turning high level concepts into saleable solutions and growing them into new revenue streams.

Panelist: Dr. Professor, SEBASTIAN JÜRGENS, CEO, LHG

Moderator: THOMAS DOEPEL, HEAD OF GROUP PURCHASING, MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, FINNLINES PLC    

Throughout his professional career, Thomas Doepel has always worked within the shipping industry, both onboard vessels in several deck officer positions and later on in different management positions in the offices. In addition to his current position, he is also a member of the Executive Committee at Finnlines.   

Panelist:  CHRISTIAN DAMSGAARD, SENIOR NAVAL ARCHITECT, HEAD OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE, Knud E. HANSEN A/S

Christian Damsgaard is working as a Senior Naval Architect, Head of Naval Architecture at the Knud E. Hansen A/S in Denmark. He has an extensive experience with ‘tailor‐made’ designs for various ship types and worldwide customers and also long and thorough experience with hull optimisation and other means to improve ships efficiency. He is specialised in: Project management, General ship design, from concept to basic design, Specifications, Feasibility studies, Lines, Stability calculations, Weight surveys and inclining experiments​

Mr Damsgaard is a Member of the Danish Engineering Association.

Panelist:  PHILLIP TIPPING, DIRECTOR, CUSTOMER INNOVATION, MACGREGOR

Phillip Tipping has a 10 year career in the army as an electrical mechanical engineer. After leaving the army, he moved to Sweden and, from humble beginnings, he demonstrated to subsequent employers that there was no new skill that he could not pick up through focus, diligence and an organised methodology. Through roles as Control Systems manager, Business development in China, and Director - Customer Innovation, Mr Tipping has developed a skill-set which has proven to meet and overcome many of the challenges provided by the industry.

Moderator: MARKKU MYLLY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, EMSA

Panelist: VILLE HAAPASAARI, CEO, PORT OF HELSINKI

Prior to this appointment Ville Haapasaari has worked at Finavia as the SVP, Helsinki Airport Director 2012-2018. Previously he worked in various responsibilities at Finnlines, main emphasis being on the head of business positions and sales management.  His main competences are business management, logistics know-how, managing development projects and working in customer interface both in b-b and b-c business environment.

Panelist: ULLA KEINO, CEO, SEAFOCUS

Panellist: HÅKAN FAGERSTRÖM, HEAD GROUP CARGO, TALLINK GRUPP 

Håkan Fagerström is a results driven Executive with experience in leading a Stevedores Company, Marine Operations, Cargo Operations, Cargo Sales & Marketing. Starting 1.5.2017 he was appointed as a Group Head of Cargo of Tallink Grupp. He graduated from Maritime University in Turku (Captain, Maritime) in 2000 and continued his studies at Aalto University 2011 from where he graduated as EMBA in 2013. At this moment Håkan is a DBA 2017 candidate at Aalto University aiming for a Doctoral Degree in Business Administration.

Panellist: STAFFAN HERLIN, COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR, MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, FINNLINES PLC 

Staffan Herlin has a long experience in shipping business. Since his Master’s (Econ) degree in 1983 he has been faithful to the leading Finnish shipping company, Finnlines Plc and has held several positions within customer service, operations, profit units, sales and marketing, since 1995 on management level. In the late eighties, he represented the company in one of it’s agencies in Lübeck for almost four years.   On top of his daily duties within Finnlines, Mr. Herlin also holds different positions in several commercial and institutional boards and committees.