Thomasine Kamerling, Executive Vice President, Sustainability and Communications, and a member of Huhtamaki Global Executive Team has decided to leave Huhtamaki to pursue other career opportunities.
Salla Ahonen has been appointed as Executive Vice President, Sustainability and Communications and a member of Global Executive Team at Huhtamaki as of January 1, 2024. She will report to President and CEO Charles Héaulmé and will be based in Espoo, Finland.
Salla joins Huhtamaki from Neste where she has served as Vice President, Sustainability. Prior to joining Neste in 2019 she served as Senior Advisor at Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) in Brussels where she represented and promoted the interests of Finnish industry in relevant policy initiatives, with special focus on circular economy, producer responsibility, plastics strategy, research and innovation, digitalization and trade. She has also worked as Director, Sustainability and Environmental Policy at Microsoft, and prior to that at Nokia, where she was responsible for all environmental and sustainability related policies and influencing them in the EU.
Effective immediately, Sami Pauni, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Legal, Group General Counsel, will have an interim role as Executive Vice President, Sustainability and Communications in addition to his current role, until Salla joins on January 1, 2024.
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