Maria Sipilä

Maria Sipilä is a leading business growth thinker in Finland and a non-fiction author.

Her background includes global mobile phone marketing at Nokia during its peak growth years, when Nokia’s brand value was at its highest. She has held executive and board positions and worked as an advisor and coach for companies on international growth and modern marketing strategies.

Sipilä holds a Master of Science degree in Economics and Business Administration. Kansainvälistä kasvua – kohti maailmanluokan brändiä is her fourth non-fiction book.

Timo Nurmi

Timo Nurmi is an expert in communications and business, with over 20 years of experience in leadership, strategy, and leveraging technology to develop organizations. He currently serves as Vice President Group Comminucations at Valio and previously led Google’s communications in Finland for 14 years.

Timo's work combines hands-on business experience, deep technological understanding, and a clear vision of the role of communications as a driver of business transformation. His background includes roles as an entrepreneur, CEO, and consultant, and he has been involved in numerous transformation processes where communication played a central role.

He is also a partner at Fairness & Friends Oy, a company partly owned by Reaktor that develops an AI-assisted compensation tool, and an advisor to the AI startup Konsensus.me.