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This is FiBAN's new board of directors in 2019

11/21/2018

 
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FiBAN’s new board was elected during the fall meeting on the 20th of November 2018. Seven experienced and enthusiastic business angels will join forces to lead the organization and shape its future towards increasingly successful business angel investing.
FiBAN’s Managing Director Reidar Wasenius is very satisfied with the new board. “I’m glad to see such experienced professionals join our board in 2019. Their collective know-how is a valuable asset for FiBAN.” Wasenius notes. “As an industry organisation, we need people with insight to understand the intricacies of a rapidly evolving startup ecosystem and a financial sector simultaneously undergoing major changes. Our board members have that, as well as the foresight to understand where we need to be heading.
FiBAN is honored to have these business angels in the FiBAN Board starting from the 1st of January 2019:

  • Jormalainen Janne, Chair
  • Linnanvirta Reima, Vice-chair
  • Forss Saga
  • Mäkeläinen Esa
  • Omar Ali
  • Vaarnas Markko
  • Varpanen Teemu
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Varpanen, Linnanvirta, Mäkeläinen, Vaarnas and Jormalainen having a hilarious moment after being elected for the FiBAN Board 2019.
The two highlights of 2019 will be the EBAN Helsinki 2019 congress and the new FiBAN Follow investment vehicle. They will both contribute to FiBAN’s strategic focus, which is to improve the quality and quantity of the deal flow it provides to its members.

Enabling exit opportunities is another key aspect of improving the profitability of startup investments made by FiBAN members. Future growth is also supported by increasing cross-border investing in the New Nordic region through the Nordic Angel Program (NAP).

Meet the board members

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Janne Jormalainen, Chair of the FiBAN Board 2019, is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is chairman of the board in five start-up companies. Janne made his early career in large corporate environment, then moving to entrepreneurship. At Nokia, he was in charge of multiple functions and businesses; managing for example business with over 800 M€ in annual revenues. Since 2005 he has been working as an entrepreneur in multiple industries and founded several companies. In 2015 he sold SPU, a company producing energy efficient building materials, to Kingspan Plc. He has lived and worked in the USA, Europe and Southeast Asia.
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Reima Linnanvirta, Vice-chair of the FiBAN Board 2019, is an angel investor with extensive understanding on international business, financial management and law. Past experience includes building up a successful business in the fields of law and business Consulting.

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Saga Forss has an extensive background in Corporate Finance (M&A) both domestically and internationally. She has a broad network in Europe, and especially in the Nordics. During the past 10 years she’s has been both entrepreneur and investor mainly in the food sector. Lately she has also become interested in impact investment. Currently she is an investor in 10 companies, such as Arctic Super Foods, Epic Foods and Jävla Sås Bolag as well as New Nordic School and Future Dialog. She has successfully exited Leipomo Keisari, Jungle Juice Bar (partly) and Talokaivo Oy.
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Esa Mäkeläinen is a former investment banker and current software entrepreneur since 2000. His software company, Valuatum, focuses on financial analysis software (equity research and creding rating/scoring models) for banks. Esa/Valuatum Oy has done startup investments since 2011 and focuses mainly on software companies operating with same SaaS-model as Valuatum or distrupting businesses in fintech, energy, cleantech or bioeconomy sectors. Esa has been in FiBAN board since 2017, and he wants to continue developing relationships and cooperation with the best crowdfunding players, improving screening and other internal processes, and measuring profitability and effectiveness of FiBAN investments with aggregate numbers.
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Ali Omar is an passionate entrepreneur, medical doctor, MBA, angel investor and technology-enthusiasts. Ali is born in Finland and raised in Northern Finland, Kainuu. He is famous for his fast talk, intensive business couching and epic story-telling in LinkedIn. His passion is to help entrepreneurs thrive and grow. Ali is an investor in OGOship, Jolie Natura and Claned. Motto: I execute, therefore I am.
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Markko Vaarnas has a reputation of being a strong visionary and a strategist, and yet having close attention to execution with any project he works on. As the co-founder and CEO of Global Intelligence Alliance Group (GIA Group) between 1995-2014, Markko has worked hands-on on every aspect of business that an internationalizing company needs to consider: product development, strategy, go-to-market planning, sales & marketing, finance, team development, M&A and corporate governance. Markko serves as the Chairman of the Board for Meetingpackage.com, Futures Platform, Huone International and BoardmanGrow network. In addition, he is a Board Member of Spinverse and Koti Puhtaaksi. He has also served as a coach at Startup Sauna.
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Teemu Varpanen is a software industry expert with 25 years of experience in both small and corporate sized businesses. His investment focus is mainly on very early stage B2B SaaS companies with an idea, passion and good team chemistry. Currently, Teemu has a dozen startup investments in his portfolio. He is actively building bridges between people, teams and ecosystems. ​
Read more about the current and previous FiBAN Board members at www.fiban.org/board

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