﻿{"id":43733,"date":"2023-05-16T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/?p=43733"},"modified":"2023-05-16T09:36:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T06:36:56","slug":"thomas-hietto-appointed-new-business-area-president-for-sweco-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/insight\/press-releases\/thomas-hietto-appointed-new-business-area-president-for-sweco-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Hietto appointed new Business Area President for Sweco Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"block cb block--white\" >\n\t<div class=\"block__inner cb__inner cb__inner--one\">\n\t<div class=\"col--12 col--center col--wrapper\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col col--6 editor-content\">\n\t\t\t<h2>Thomas Hietto appointed new Business Area President for Sweco Finland<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43730\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/hietto_hires-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/hietto_hires-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/hietto_hires-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/hietto_hires-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/hietto_hires-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/hietto_hires-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/hietto_hires-520x293.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/hietto_hires-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/hietto_hires-533x300.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Press release<\/p>\n<p>16.5.2023, Helsinki and Stockholm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Hietto takes up the role as the new Business Area President for Sweco Finland and joins Sweco AB\u2019s Executive Team effective 1 June 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the greater part of his career, Thomas Hietto has worked for the Kone Corporation in several senior positions and in different markets around the world. He has also been Deputy CEO of Caverion Corporation. Thomas Hietto holds an MSc in Industrial Management from Helsinki University of Technology (Aalto University), Finland as well as an MSc in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Hietto will succeed Markku Varis who is retiring after 30 successful years with Sweco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased to present Thomas Hietto as the new Business Area President for Sweco Finland and to welcome him to the Group\u2019s Executive Team. Thomas has long and extensive experience in leading large international organisations and improving their performance in changing times and I am confident that he will continue to ensure Sweco Finland\u2019s successful journey. I would also like to thank Markku Varis, who has been instrumental in Sweco Finland\u2019s positive development and a valuable member of the Group\u2019s executive team,\u201d says <strong>\u00c5sa Bergman<\/strong>, President and CEO of Sweco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to be joining a company and a team so fundamentally dedicated to taking on some of the most important challenges of our time. I look forward to joining Sweco, working together, and building and strengthening our people for the benefit of our clients and society as a whole,\u201d says <strong>Thomas Hietto<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, please contact:<\/p>\n<p>Sanna Huopio, Communications Director, Sweco Finland, sanna.huopio@sweco.fi, +358 50 302 8898<\/p>\n<p>Cecilia Str\u00f6mmar, Head of Press, Sweco AB, cecilia.strommar@sweco.se, +46 72 39399 03<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Hietto takes up the role as the new Business Area President for Sweco Finland and joins Sweco AB\u2019s Executive Team effective 1 June 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":43730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43733"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43745,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43733\/revisions\/43745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}