Hanna Loikkanen was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of BGEO by the Board in June 2015 and was elected by shareholders at the 2016 AGM. Ms Loikkanen is also a member of BGEO’s Nomination Committee as well as the Risk Committee, and was appointed to BGEO’s Audit Committee in March 2016. Ms Loikkanen was also appointed to the Bank’s Supervisory Board in August 2015. Ms Loikkanen previously served as a Non-Executive Director of BGEO from 2011 until 2013 and as a member of the Bank’s Supervisory Board from 2010 until 2013.
Skills and experience:
Ms Loikkanen has over 20 years of experience working with financial institutions in Russia and Eastern Europe. She currently serves as an advisor to East Capital Private Equity AB. Until June 2016, she also served as a Non-Executive Director of AKI Bank in Tatarstan. Prior to this, she served from 2010 until 2012 as the Chief Representative and Head of the Private Equity team at East Capital, a Swedish asset management company in Moscow, with a special focus on financial institutions. Prior to joining East Capital, Ms Loikkanen held the position of Country Manager and Chief Executive Officer at FIM Group in Russia, a Finnish investment bank, where she was responsible for setting up and running FIM Group’s brokerage and corporate finance operations in Russia. During her tenure at FIM Group, the company advised several large foreign companies in their M&A activities in Russia. Earlier in her career, Ms Loikkanen worked for Nordea Finance in various management positions in Poland, the Baltic States and Scandinavia with a focus on business development, strategy and business integration; for SEB in Moscow where she was responsible for the restructuring of SEB’s debt capital market operations in Russia; and for MeritaNordbanken in St Petersburg where she focused on trade finance and correspondent banking.
In addition to her directorships at BGEO Group and the Bank, Ms Loikkanen serves as a Non-Executive Director and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee of Locko Bank, an SME-focused Russian bank and as a Non-Executive Director of Locko Invest, Locko Bank’s investment banking subsidiary. Since 2014, she has acted as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of T&B Capital, an independent regulated wealth management company based in Helsinki.
Education:
Ms Loikkanen holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Helsinki School of Economics, and was a Helsinki School of Economics scholar at the University of New South Wales.