Huhtamaki Oyj has appointed Riikka Tieaho (age 50) as Executive Vice President, Sustainability, Corporate Affairs & Legal, and General Counsel. Riikka will be a member of the Global Executive Team, reporting to President and CEO Ralf K. Wunderlich. She will start in her role no later than June 1, 2026 and will be based in Espoo, Finland.
Riikka joins Huhtamaki from Wolt, where she has served as General Counsel since 2020, and brings 20 years of legal and leadership experience from Nokia, a global publicly listed company. Aino Kyytsönen has been appointed from within the company to ensure continuity as Interim Senior Vice President, Sustainability, Corporate Affairs & Legal, and General Counsel until Riikka joins Huhtamaki. Following the above change, the members of Huhtamaki?s Global Executive Team are: Ralf K. Wunderlich (Chair), President and CEO; Fredrik Davidsson, President, Foodservice Packaging; Sara Engber, President, Fiber Packaging; Thomas Geust, Chief Financial Officer; Axel Glade, President, Flexible Packaging; Katariina Kravi, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Safety and Communications; Ann O?Hara, President, North America; Riikka Tieaho, Executive Vice President, Sustainability, Corporate Affairs and Legal (latest June 1, 2026); and Changsheng Wu, Executive Vice President, Procurement.
Huhtamaki Oyj specializes in developing, manufacturing and marketing paper, cardboard and plastic packaging. Net sales break down by market as follows:
- outside catering (59.3%): disposable packaging and tableware for the fast-food professionals and vending machine. Net sales break down by geographic area between North America (59.6%) and Europe/Asia/Oceania (40.4%);
- food processing industry and consumer goods (40.7%): flexible packaging, films, molded fiber packaging, etc. for the packaging of food, cosmetics, household products, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Finland (1.7%), the United States (35.3%), Germany (11%), the United Kingdom (7.8%), India (6.2%), Australia (4.1%), Turkey (4.1%), Thailand (3.8%), Poland (3%), South Africa (3%), Spain (2.3%) and others (17.7%).
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