Jenni Santalo (MA) has been appointed as the Vice President, Marketing and Communications of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland as of 1 February 2018.
Jenni Santalo came to VTT from Tieto, where she has held various managerial positions in marketing and communications since 2011. She has accumulated experience in both digital presence, culture and marketing and influencer and corporate social responsibility communications.
"It is an extremely exciting opportunity to join an organisation as unique and innovative as VTT. I am proud to be part of VTT's aim to build an increasingly dynamic and solution-oriented world together with businesses and society. As a marketing and communications professional, I cannot wait to be able to tell all the amazing stories that VTT's scientific innovations have made possible", Jenni Santalo says.
Santalo will be working as a member of the management team of VTT's new Commercial Operations unit as of 1 March 2018. VTT is pooling its sales, marketing and communications processes into a new unit, which consists of the following three main functions: Sales and Customer Partnerships, Marketing and Communications and Research Service Design. The unit will be responsible for supporting customers and meeting their needs more and more comprehensively and efficiently.