The principal duty of the Management Team is to assist the CEO in the company’s operative management. Other duties include matters relating to long-term planning, planning and monitoring of investments, and allocation of resources to key operations.
The Management Team consists of: Christophe Sut, Kai Valo, Anette Mullis, (from 14.10.2024) Riku Hynninen, Markku Kosunen, and Christina Wiklund. President and CEO Christophe Sut is the Chairman of the Management Team. As of 1 January 2025, the following persons have been appointed to the roles of regional Vice Presidents: Steve Creutz (new member of the Management team) for Northern Europe, Christian Kesten (new member of the Management team) for APAC, and Markku Kosunen for Central Europe. On the same date, Riku Hynninen will assume the Chief Technology Officer role.
Management Team
Christophe Sut
CEO of Scanfil as of 1 September 2023. Sandvik AB, President, Sandvik Manufacturing Solution 2021-2023. ASSA ABLOY AB Executive Vice President, ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions 2016–2021 and Vice President, Business development 2014–2016 and CLIQ development Director of EMEA 2012–2014. Niscayah Group, Global Strategic Marketing Manager 2010–2012, ASSA ABLOY AB, various marketing and development roles in Sweden and France 2001–2010. Various marketing roles at ITW Group and SAM Outillage 1997–2001. Christophe holds a Master’s degree in Marketing and Sales, and a Bachelor’s degree in Languages and Mathematics.
CEO of Scanfil
Steve Creutz
Nationality: Swedish
Education: Courses in Management, Sales, and Finance
Current Role: General Manager at Scanfil Åtvidaberg AB, Sweden (2016-Present)
Previous Roles: Various managerial and business development positions at Scanfil Åtvidaberg AB and PartnerTech Åtvidaberg AB.
VP of Northern Europe as of 1 January 2025
Riku Hynninen
Riku Hynninen (1972) was previously working at Nokia Corporation (1995 – 2018), in charge of developing the production technology for mobile network business, creating new product delivery capability, and product portfolio lifecycle management (2014 – 2018). Previously, he has been responsible among others the technical functions of the Nokia Suzhou factory and the creation and management of the delivery capability of several different mobile network product families in Italy and Finland. Riku Hynninen is an M.Sc.(Eng.).
Chief Technology Officer, responsible for supply chain, sustainability and technology as of 1 January 2025.
Chief Development Officer
Christian Kesten
Nationality: Swedish
Education: M.Sc. in Electronical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Current Role: General Manager at Scanfil, Suzhou, China (2017-Present)
Previous Roles: Various senior engineering and management positions at Sony Mobile Communications, BMC SE Potevio, and Ericsson.
VP of APAC region as of 1 Jan 2025
Markku Kosunen
Markku Kosunen (1967). Before joining Scanfil Group he worked at Mecanova Oy as Vice President of Business Development 2005–2007, Director of Operations during 2008–2010 and in different management positions at mechanics plants of Flextronics and Ojala-yhtymä in Finland during 1993–2005. Markku Kosunen is a technology undergraduate.
Vice President of Central Europe as of 1 January 2025.
Chief Procurement Officer
Anette Mullis
Anette joined Scanfil on October 14, 2024.
Anette’s over twenty years of strategic HR management experience spans various international sectors, including telecoms, electronics manufacturing, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals. She transitions to Scanfil from Arelion, where she was the Vice President of Human Resources and Sustainability (2021-2024). Her previous experience includes senior HR roles; Senior Vice President, Human Resources (2018-2021) at Mycronic, Global HR Business Partner / HEAD of HR Solutions Area OSS (2017-2018) at Ericsson, Director HR Business Partner Commercial Operations Europe (2010-2017) and Senior Manager Human Resources (2007-2010) at CSL Behring, and Associate Director, Employee Relations (2006-2007) and Associate Director, Global Assignment Services (2004-2006) at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. She has also worked at IKEA Homefurnishings (1988–2004) where she had progressively increasing HR roles incl. management roles and subject matter expert roles.
Anette holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Science (Social Work).
Chief People Officer as of October 14, 2024.
Kai Valo
Kai Valo (1965). During 2015 – 2016 Kai was the CFO for Norpe Group. Prior to that he was in Lite-On Mobile Group Director of Finance and Control in Beijing, China 2009 – 2015. Before that (during 1999 – 2008) he had several finance related management positions in Perlos. Kai holds a Master’s Degree in Economics.
Chief Financial Officer
Christina Wiklund
Christina Wiklund comes from GE Additive, part of General Electric Company, where she held the Vice President/Head of Sales EMEA position. She has more than 20 years of experience in electronics manufacturing and sales. Before joining GE Additive, she worked at Flex, a global manufacturing & supply chain company, where she was Vice President of sales and account management. Before Flex, Christina worked at Solectron and Ericsson in business development and account management roles.
Chief Commercial Officer