Published: 28.8.2024

PRESS RELEASE 28 August 2024 - Riku Helander (M.Sc. (Tech)) has been appointed Senior Vice President of Telecom Business at Digita Oy and a member of the Digita Leadership team. He will start his role on October 1, 2024. Helander joins Digita from the Management team of Normet Group Oy, where he was responsible for the Service Business.

Riku Helander has extensive and diverse international experience in leading and developing business, sales, and marketing in the technology industry. His career includes leadership roles at Cisco, Juniper Networks, and Nokia.

“I am excited about the opportunity to join Digita at the current stage of the company’s strategy, aiming to make the company a growing provider of diverse digital infrastructure and services. I believe that together with the staff and other stakeholders, we can foster and promote a customer-centric culture and a thriving organization to achieve sustainable growth and enable renewal.”

“Starting in October, I will spend the first days and weeks getting to know the company, its strategy, and its customers with the Leadership team. I also hope to meet as many Digita employees as possible with the goal of getting to know the company thoroughly,” says Helander.

“I warmly welcome Riku Helander to Digita. Riku has extensive and diverse international experience in the telecommunications, IT, and technology markets and their responsible leadership roles. This experience, combined with Riku’s change management expertise, gives him excellent conditions to further develop our company and Digita’s Telecom business to be even more customer-centric, business-oriented, and competitive,” says Digita’s CEO Vesa Tykkyläinen.

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