Mika Seppälä
Head of sales and handling
Lufthansa Cargo |
Mika Seppälä has made a long career with Lufthansa and Lufthansa Cargo. At the beginning of the career Mika gained practical experience in handling, loading and sales of air cargo. After the Lufthansa Management Trainee program, Mika started leading positions firstly as the Nordic Quality Manager from where the career path took to various sales leadership positions. Presently Mika is Director, Head of Sales and Handling Finland and Baltics for Lufthansa Cargo. Lufthansa Cargo is one of the leading global air freight carriers and is considered to be one of the innovation leaders in air freight industry. Mika is also member of the board at LOGY Ry as well as one of board members at LOGY Transport Forum.
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Anna Granfelt
Safety Manager
HEMS Operations |
Holds a masters degree in political science and has been working widely within Aviation business for over 15 years in various positions from business Aviation to FCAA. Currently Anna is working in the field of HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service) as the first female nominated post holder as Safety Manager in Finland. Also a mother, entepreneur and a local politician.
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Johan Magnus Eriksson
Regional Sales Manager
Aeroflot Russian Airlines |
I am a highly driven individual with great enthusiasm and ambition to always make the best out of every situation. If and when "my best" is not enough , then it is only my responsibility to redefine the meaning of "my best" and do it differently, do it better, to pull through
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Esa Korjula
CEO, Flight Captian
Redstone AERO Oy |
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Minttu Sinisalo
Head of strategic workforce planning and talent acquisition
Finnair |
Minttu Sinisalo has worked four years for Finnair. She is currently responsible for Strategic Resource Planning as well as Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding. Before her current role, she headed Finnair Performance and Rewards team responsible of compensation, benefits and performance management. She has also worked as a HR Business Partner in Finnair. She has worked in various assignments including collective labour agreement negotiations with different unions. Before Finnair, Minttu worked in a management consulting firm.
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Tom Christides
Consultant
Tom Christides Consulting |
Many organizations believe they are ready to manage complex and sudden events involving people. In reality most aren't. They have not identified the risks nor the resources of people, equipment and systems immediately needed to manage and respond to these events. It is only when an event occurs that they discover the shortfalls in planning, training and response. Then it is too late. Before becoming a crisis communications associate for Kenyon International Emergency Services, Tom spent three decades in the airline industry. He began his career in 1980 and has worked with Passenger Services as well as Sales, Marketing and International Relations for Finnair, Swissair and Blue1/SAS in Finland and abroad a.o. heading the Finnair teams in Hamburg and West-Berlin 1987-1990. From 1999 until end of 2012 Tom held the position as VP Corporate Communications as well as Head of Security, Public Affairs and Environment at Blue1, the Finnish subsidiary of SAS Scandinavian Airlines. During this time, as Emergency-Spokesperson, he learned the hard way how dramatic and intense the media pressure will be while experiencing besides a great number of strikes and walk-outs, five major genuine crisis situations, two of them fatal accidents where close to 300 people lost their lives and many more lost a loved one. He learned how incredibly important the company’s response is both for the families and other stakeholders involved and the company’s reputation and future. No two events are ever the same, but the consequences tend to be: missing or injured people, families and employees in distress, lack of resources, overwhelming media attention and confusion. Why Tom? Because he has been there. He knows by hearth what happens when the accident occurs! He can teach you how to plan and proceed and most important, he can teach you how to communicate with media and people involved. Based on his own experience, he has facilitated numerous courses in Crisis Communications Management and has acted as guest speaker at many contingency planning workshops throughout Europe. He speaks English, Swedish, German and Finnish.
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