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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE STATEMENT
Maciej Kranz
Chief Technology Officer
b. 1964. MBA. Business Administration
Member of the Executive Board and employed by KONE
since 2019.
Previously served at Cisco Systems as Vice President and
General Manager of Corporate Strategic Innovation Group
2013-2019, General Manager of the Connected Industries
Group 2012-2013, Vice President of Borderless Networks
2009-2011, Vice President of Wireless Networking 2006-
2009 and Vice President of Ethernet Switching 1999-2006.
Current key positions of trust: Member of the Board of
loTecha Corporation.
Tomio Pihkala
New Equipment Business
b. 1975, M.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering)
Member of the Executive Board since 2013. Employed by
KONE since 2001.
Previously served as Executive Vice President, Chief
Technology Officer 2015-2019, Operations Development
2013-2015, Vice President, Technology Finland 2011-2013,
as Director, Service Equipment Business, in KONE China
2009-2010, as Director, Product Strategy and Marketing, in
KONE China 2007-2008. Current key positions of trust:
Member of the Board of Toshiba Elevator and Building
Systems Corporation, and Member of the Board of Vexve
Armatury Group.
Ken Schmid
Americas
b. 1963, B.A. (History), MBA (Business Administration)
Member of the Executive Board since March 2020. Employed
by KONE since 1986 (Montgomery Elevator Company until
1994).
Previously served as Senior Vice President, Finance for
KONE Americas and member of KONE's Global Finance
Leadership Team 2005-2020; Senior Vice President of Global
Information Services 2003-2005; Senior Vice President, CIO
for KONE Americas 1998-2003; Vice President of Quality
1995-1998. Earlier in his career Ken held various new
equipment sales roles in multiple branch offices within KONE.
Current key positions of trust: Member of the Board of
National Elevator Industry, Inc. (NEII), Member of the Board of
Advisory Board to Invest in Finland, USA.
Susanne Skippari
Human Resources
b. 1974, M.Sc. (Econ.)
Member of the Executive Board since 2017.Employed by
KONE since 2007.
Previously served as Head of Human Resources in New
Equipment Business 2015-2017, and Head of Talent
Management 2007-2008 and 2011-2015. Susanne has also
worked as Area Human Resources Director for Europe,
Middle-East and Africa between 2009-2011. Prior to joining
KONE, she served eight years at Nokia and worked in many
Human Resources roles in Finland and in Argentina.
Tricia Weener
Marketing and Communications
b. 1970, B.A. Business studies
Member of the Executive Board and employed by KONE
since January 2021.
Previously served at HSBC as Chief Marketing Officer,
Commercial & Global Banking & Markets 2019-2020 and
Commercial Banking 2016-2020, Group Head of Brand
Partnerships 2017-2019, Asia Head of Marketing,
Commercial & Global Banking & Markets 2013-2019, Head of
Integrated Marcoms 2011-2013, and Europe Head of
Marketing and Comms, Commercial Bank 2009-2011. Prior to
HSBC, Tricia was the CEO and Founder of Intelligent
Marketing & Communications Ltd 2003-2009, worked at The
Marketing Partnership Ltd 1997-2003, ALPHA Airports Group
1996-1997 and British Aerospace Defence Ltd 1989-1994.
Susanne Skippari served as interim Executive Vice President,
Marketing and Communications until January 18, 2021. Klaus
Cawén served as Executive Vice President responsible for
M&A, Strategic Alliances and Legal Affairs until January 31,
2021 and Pierre Liautaud served as Executive Vice President
responsible for South Europe, Middle East and Africa until
March 31, 2021.
After the reporting period, on January 18, 2022, KONE
announced that Thomas Hinnerskov, Executive Vice
President responsible for South Europe, Middle East and
Africa, has decided to leave KONE for a position outside the
company latest at the end of May 2022.
More information
Corporate governance page 107
More information
Shareholdings of KONE Corporation's public insiders are
available on page 111
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