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Sitowise’s new HR Director Taija Lehtola has extensive experience from international organizations

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Sitowise Group Plc Stock Exchange Release 23 May 2022 at 13:15 pm (EET)

Sitowise’s new HR Director Taija Lehtola has extensive experience from international organizations

Taija Lehtola has been appointed as Sitowise's Chief Human Resources Officer and a member of the Group Management Team. Lehtola will start in her position on August 29, 2022.

Lehtola has more than 20 years of versatile human resources management experience from Nokia, KONE and Paroc. To Sitowise she comes from a position as Digita's Chief HR and Responsibility Officer. Lehtola has Master of Science in Economics  from the Turku School of Economics.

–  To Sitowise, Taija Lehtola brings diverse personnel management expertise accumulated in international organizations. Her people-oriented way of working and ability to listen employee’s views becomes valuable as we grow an international expert organization. It is great to have a strong professional like Taija onboard, and I warmly welcome her to be a member of our Group Management Team, says Sitowise CEO Heikki Haasmaa.

Sitowise's vision is to be the most responsible partner in developing a prosperous living environment, and the Group has strong growth targets in the Nordics.

– I am very excited about Sitowise's swift growth story, combined with ambitious future goals and company’s vision to be the most responsible player in the industry. As a recently listed company, Sitowise is in a very interesting development phase. It has been great to see how the company values its experts and wants continuously to develop the company culture. I believe I have a lot to give to the next phases of this growing expert organization, Taija Lehtola states.

CV – Taija Lehtola

Born 1973
Finnish Citizen
Master of Science (Econ.), Human Resource Management

Primary career

06/2020 – Digita Oy, Chief HR Officer
01/2019 – 05/2020 Owens Corning/Paroc Group, Owens Corning Insulation Europe HR Director
11/2016 – 12/2018 Owens Corning/Paroc Group, Paroc Group HR Director
06/2012 – 11/2016 KONE, HR Director, Finland and Baltics
09/2008 – 05/2012 Nokia, HR Business Partner
04/2005 – 08/2008 Nokia, Manager, Resourcing
03/2001 – 03/2005 Nokia, HR Account Consultant/(Senior) HR Consultant
01/1999 – 02/2001 Nokia, Communications Officer, HR

For more information, please contact

Heikki Haasmaa, CEO, +358 50 304 7765
Minttu Vilander, Chief Communications and Sustainability Officer, +358 40 575 6660
Sitowise mediadesk, mediadesk@sitowise.com, +358 44 427 9434

Information about Sitowise

Sitowise is a Nordic specialist and digital expert in the built environment. We offer design and consulting services for smarter and more sustainable urban development as well as smooth transportation. We operate in three business areas in Finland and Sweden: real estate and buildings, infrastructure, and digital solutions.

We want to raise the bar of being smart and sustainable, which is why our vision is to be the most responsible partner in developing a prosperous living environment. Sitowise has grown rapidly and profitably in the past years. The group’s net sales were EUR 179 million in 2021 and the company employs over 2,000 experts. Sitowise Group Plc is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki as SITOWS. www.sitowise.com

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