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 January 1 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 Procurement and Technology Officer role.
Management Team
Christophe Sut
Nationality: French and Swedish
Education: Master’s degree in Marketing and Sales, Bachelor’s degree in Languages and Mathematics
Current role: CEO as of 1 September 2023
Previous roles: Christophe has worked at Sandvik AB as the President of Sandvik Manufacturing Solution from 2021 to 2023. Prior to that, he served as the Executive Vice President of ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions from 2016 to 2021 and was the Vice President of Business Development from 2014 to 2016. Additionally, he held the position of CLIQ Development Director of EMEA from 2012 to 2014. Christophe was the Global Strategic Marketing Manager at Niscayah Group from 2010 to 2012. He also held various marketing and development roles at ASSA ABLOY AB in Sweden and France from 2001 to 2010. Earlier in his career, he worked in various marketing roles at ITW Group and SAM Outillage from 1997 to 2001.
CEO of Scanfil
Steve Creutz
Nationality: Swedish
Education: Courses in Management, Sales, and Finance
Current role: Vice President of Northern Europe
Previous roles: Steve has worked as General Manager at Scanfil Åtvidaberg AB, Sweden (2016-2024), and also in various managerial and business development positions at Scanfil Åtvidaberg AB and PartnerTech Åtvidaberg AB.
Vice President of Northern Europe as of January 1, 2025
Riku Hynninen
Nationality: Finnish
Education: Master of Science in Engineering
Current role: Chief Procurement and Technology Officer
Previous roles: During the years 2018–2021, Riku led Scanfil’s operations as COO. He has previously worked at Nokia Corporation (1995 – 2018), and he was 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.
Chief Procurement and Technology Officer as of January 1, 2025
Christian Kesten
Nationality: Swedish
Education: M.Sc. in Electronical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Current role: Vice President of APAC
Previous roles: Christian has worked as General Manager at Scanfil, Suzhou, China (2017-2024), and in various senior engineering and management positions at Sony Mobile Communications, BMC SE Potevio, and Ericsson.
Vice President of APAC as of January 1, 2025
Markku Kosunen
Nationality: Finnish
Education: Technology undergraduate
Current role: Vice President of Central Europe
Previous roles: Before joining Scanfil Group Markku has 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.
Vice President of Central Europe as of January 1, 2025
Anette Mullis
Nationality: Swedish
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Science (Social Work)
Current role: Chief People Officer. Anette joined Scanfil on October 14, 2024.
Previous roles: Anette transitioned 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.
Chief People Officer
Kai Valo
Nationality: Finnish
Education: Master’s degree in Economics
Current role: Chief Financial Officer
Previous roles: 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. In 1999–2008, he held several finance related management positions at Perlos.
Chief Financial Officer
Christina Wiklund
Nationality: Swedish
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Social Science, attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program
Current role: Chief Commercial Officer
Previous roles: Christina 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 2006–2018, Account Manager at Solectron 2002–2006, and in business development and account management roles at Ericsson 1999–2002.
Chief Commercial Officer