Meet the team!

advisors with long experience

When you have recognized the need for better control of your product strategy and product management, Nextage Advisory Services can help you and knows exactly how to go forward.

Nextage Advisory Services, with our vast experience of Products and a long experience of leadership in several industries, will help your company to define your product strategy, implement it and successfully execute it. We speed up the actions and know-how to motivate an organization to work towards common goals.

Our client-product-based approach differentiates Nextage Advisory Services from other actors on the market. We believe that your product and your visions around it are what make your company truly unique. We can promise you a greater understanding of innovation and its financial impact on your business today and in the future. This is the key to staying ahead of your competition in the market and increasing your profitability.

Niko Salonen

Knowledge

  • Product Strategy, Product Portfolio Management, Modularization, Engineering Processes and Tools, Product Lifecycle Management

Experience

  • 20 years Industrial business experience
  • Extensive experience in cross-cultural global products and projects
  • Operational development

Benefits
Strategic view and ability to manage and execute

Markus Ekman

Knowledge

  • Digitalization, IT, Processes, Product and Service Management, High-Tech & Innovation
  • Strategic Analysis, Guidelines & Frameworks
  • Transformational / Change Management

Experience

  • C-level positions and Management Team experience since 1999
  • Global responsibilities

Benefits
Enabling Added Business Value, Competitive Advantage, and New Winning Ways of Working

Tapio Juurakko

Knowledge

  • Product Strategy, Product Management
  • Innovation, Digitalization, and Business IT
  • Sales development

Experience

  • Managing Director in IT business since 2001
  • Business in Finland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark

Benefits
Understand the big picture and how to take action to reach targets.

Cornelis Jan-Prigge

Knowledge

  • Product Strategy, Engineering Processes and Tools and Manufacturing Processes
  • Product Lifecycle Management and Shop floor integration

Experience

  • 30 years Industrial business experience
  • Extensive international experience with global projects and customers
  • Trusted advisor PLM business processes inclusive shop floor integration and Assembly planning
  • Project and program management

Benefits
Flexible, broad knowledge about different industries and business processes, straightforward.

Henrik Nyberg

Knowledge

  • Change management focusing on people and smooth professional interactions
  • Process analysis and development
  • Operational excellence and management training

Experience

  • 25 years experience ranging from financial markets and digital asset management to senior IT management
  • Management and cooperation in international teams
  • Program/Project management in larger business transformation initiatives

Benefits
People guru speaking both business and IT, specializing in getting the right people in the room. Does not think the same way everyone else does.

Kari Suojanen

Knowledge

  • Product Data and Information Management
  • Master Data Management and Harmonization
  • Engineering Processes, Tools, and Workflows
  • Product Change Management
  • System Interfaces

Experience

  • Over 25 years of industrial business experience
  • Experienced in cross-cultural global products and projects

Benefits

Qualified to see the product life cycle as a panoramic picture. Out-of-the-box thinking.

Hannu Hannila

Knowledge

  • Product and Product Portfolio Management
  • Business Process Development
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Enterprise Data Management
  • Product Change Management

Experience

  • 25 years of work experience in managerial, expert, and research positions in several industries related to product and product lifecycle management
  • Wide range of experience in developing and managing business and product strategies, business processes, IT, and enterprise data.

Benefits

A practical approach to business development at strategic, tactical and operational levels.

Per Gabrielsson

Knowledge

  • Product lifecycle management
  • Engineering Processes and Tools
  • 3D-model usage during the whole product lifecycle

Experience

  • Over 25 years development of products, business, and processes
  • Project Manager changing organization WoW transfer from 2D-drawings to 3D-model as steering document
  • Help companies at all levels from CEOs to integration engineers

Benefits

Broad experience from different working areas gives an extremely good understanding of why, when, and by who data should be linked between systems. Love to solve problems, so nothing is impossible only more or less complex.

Markku Vierimaa

Knowledge

  • Product Life Cycle Management Processes
  • Enterprise and Engineering Change Management
  • Engineering Tools, Processes, and Item Management
  • Production and Manufacturing know-how from a PLM perspective

Experience

  • Product Lifecycle Management System know-how built from year 2010
  • PLM Process owner, PLM transformation project Manager
  • Customer Delivery Manager
  • Test Manager and PLM key user network co-ordinator

Benefits

Know how well-implemented PLM can enable organizations to reach their goals. Goals are set in the strategy, where measures can be for instance competitive advantage, cost savings, and quality of the product.

Nextage — Accelerate your business

Accelerate your business

Follow us on LinkedIn