Jani Puroranta has a long track record in leading and developing digital business, having worked in various business development and leadership roles, most recently as Director of Product Strategy and R&D at Bilot Consulting.

"Digitalization is transforming the ways we do business, interact with our customers and build new business models, products and services. Our objective is to help our customers improve their operational efficiency, reduce risks and increase profitability. Together with business areas and functions, Metso's CDO will have a key role in the development of Metso's processes and capabilities so that we can provide the best customer experience and value-generating solutions with the help of digitalization," says Matti Kähkönen, President and CEO of Metso.