NEWS

(06/10/2014 / sha)

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Metsä Board: New CEO appointed

Metsä Board Corporation’s Board of Directors has appointed M.Sc. (Tech.), MBA Mika Joukio, 49, as the company’s new CEO. Joukio will start in the position on 1 December at the latest.

 
 

Joukio joins Metsä Board from Metsä Tissue Corporation, part of Metsä Group, where he has been the CEO since 2012. Prior to Metsä Tissue, Joukio worked as the head of Metsä Board’s paperboard business during 2006 to 2011. He has held various management positions in the company and its predecessors Metsä-Serla Corporation and M-real Corporation since 1990.

“Mika Joukio has strong earlier experience in Metsä Board and in paperboard as well as consumer product industries. He has a good track record of successful business management in Metsä Tissue. He has an excellent starting point to continuing profitable growth of Metsä Board”, says Kari Jordan, Chairman of the Board of Directors.