Mika Mäkelä

Heading NKT's expansion to the emerging market of North America.

NKT has pioneered the cable industry since 1891 and is today one of the world’s leading cable solution providers with 3,700 employees around the globe. We develop, manufacture and market high quality cables, accessories and solutions for electrical infrastructure, the construction field and in the railway industries. We supply creative, highly technological and sustainable products, services and solutions for our customers. NKT is listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen and had a turnover of EUR 1,5 bn in 2018. NKT High Voltage Solutions Cologne is a system supplier to the energy generation, transmission and distribution sector who runs the state of the art plant in Cologne, Germany and operates globally through its projects. Together with approx. 700 colleagues we achieved EUR 250 m turnover in 2018.

Business centric Head of Finance role for the largest Business Line within NKT, High Voltage Solutions as well as for Operations and Technology Divisions with team of approx. 80 finance professionals. High involvement in sales, operations and project execution. Leading the financial merger of the acquired ABB High Voltage Cables business in to the existing NKT Projects business.

ABB is a world-leading supplier of high-voltage cable systems, installation and service for all types of submarine and underground power transmission solutions. With power cable expertise dating back to 1883, ABB has pioneered a range of cable system technologies and has an extensive track record of manufacturing efficient, reliable and powerful high-voltage cable systems. The business operates today locally in 6 countries with approximately 950 employees and creates EUR ~600m revenues within two business lines. Within my time in the global management team (since 2012) we have grown from 600 employees and EUR ~350 m revenues while performing strategic portfolio review and divesting our factory in US. Whereas all growth has been organic. Special tasks: Lead of the divestment project where the whole ABB Cable business was sold to NKT Cables with enterprise value of EUR 836m. Closing performed successfully in February 2017.

ABB Power Cables Service was founded in May 1st, 2011 with a mission to be world leading power cable service company. I played an active role from the very beginning with forming this brand new business for ABB and establishing these services to the global market. From a 2 man start-up we grew to be the benchmark service business within the industry of high voltage cables. Challenges were to establish the fully new business and to do it globally by making a success from the Close to the Customer Strategy together with the local ABB units. Special tasks: Start-up business within ABB, Global business strategy, Member of ABB High Voltage Cables Global Management Team, Member of ABB Power Systems Divisional Service Team. Head of strategy work and project manager for what became ABB Victoria - worlds most advanced cable-laying vessel. Vessel was christened in May 2017 - on-time, cost and quality.

Being the first controller within ABB HVC Installations & Service department the work was initially to establish the function and key processes as well as to secure succession planning. As an Installations & Service Management Team we achieved to establish a company in company which delivers world class high voltage cable systems to the customers. During my time the organization grew from 37 to over 140 employees. Special Task: From October 2011 I also had a task to establish the ABB Offshore Engineering Center. Rotterdam, NL was selected as the location for the new ABB function and I managed it until handing it over to the permanent manager in May 2012.

Focus on complete production cost control with closed loops between the Sales, Design and Manufacturing by the form of monthly Lessons Learned. When taking over the role immediately after a complete ERP change, the challenge was to get the processes and tools working with the new system SAP as well as securing data quality. Special task: Master Data Manager for the Transformers factory, Member of ABB Finland Master Data Function

Project Manager in the SAP implementation for Materials Management (Logistics) and Master Data. The project was a complete ERP change from BaaN to SAP. The implementation was managed in only 9 months. It was handed over on time and in budget together with Master Data quality exceeding 6 sigma. Project was rewarded as the most successful within ABB Finland. Special tasks: Master Data Manager for the Transformers factory, Member of ABB Finland Master Data and Materials Management Functions.

Assignee in the ABB Group Headquarters within Group Function Shared Accounting Services (SAS) as Assistant Controller. Monthly follow-up of the 34 countries, consolidation of the data and presenting it to the group management. Special tasks: Member of the team rolling out the group wide program Target Ten aiming for USD 1 billion annual cost savings within ABB Group. Member of the core team building the data system for setting the targets to the countries and enabling the follow-up.

Program Management Office (PMO) coordinates all the ABB internal projects and ensures that the projects are delivered on time, in budget and in required quality. At the time majority of the projects were SAP implementations and upgrades. Within the 6 months we achieved 3 successful go-lives. Special task: Member of the Corporate Process Improvement Team for ABB Benelux, which develops internal processes and drives towards operational excellence.

Predefinition phase is the most crucial in any ERP (SAP) implementation. My role was to do this work for ABB Transformers with concentration in Materials Management (Logistics). Masters Thesis “IMPLEMENTING SAP - MATERIALS MANAGEMENT MODULE, Case ABB Transformers, Vaasa, Finland” was published from this work. Special task: Member of ABB Finland Master Data, Materials Management and Sales & Distribution Functions

DigiComp was an ICT company founded by friends from university with a vision of revolutionizing eCommerce. Successfull start-up and establishment of new software product was concluded. When we sold the core business in March 2008 we had 9 employees and a turnover exceeding 2.5 million euro. Due to the financial difficulties part of the company went bankrupt. As an entrepreneur I held various responsibilities within the company, mainly concentrating in marketing & sales together with finance. Special tasks: Financing with venture capitalists, divestment, bankruptcy

Part-time lecturer for M.Sc students in course of e-Commerce while being M.Sc student myself.

Mandatory military service together with Reserve Officer School (2002/10 - 2003/01)

SKOL Ry was over 100 years old, politically and religiously independent student union supervising the benefits and rights of the Finnish business students. Despite of being one of the oldest student organisations in Finland SKOL was in deep financial crisis. During my year as the chairman we managed to change the course to positive and secure the continuity. In late 2001 we merged the union with 3 other student unions, and new strong umbrella organization Finnish Student Alliance – OSKU Ry. OSKU operates in 116 schools and has more than 60 000 members. Special task: Founder and First Vice President of Finnish Student Alliance – OSKU Ry

Together with Oracle, Nokia, Emirates, DP World and Save the Children in Bangalore, Dubai and London.

Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration; majored in Industrial Management and minored in ICT Law, e-Commerce and Mathematics & Physics. Graduated in 4 years (average 6 years) as best in class with GPA 4,12 / 5,00