Vaisala’s Board of Directors has appointed Kai Öistämö as President. Öistämö starts at Vaisala latest on October 1, 2020. Vaisala’s current President Kjell Forsén is to step down from his current position and retire by the end of 2020. Kai Öistämö joins Vaisala from InterDigital, where he has held the position as Chief Operating Officer since 2018, before which he served as Member of the Board. Prior to InterDigital, Öistämö worked at Siris Capital Group and held several demanding leadership positions at Nokia, where he also was part of the company’s Executive Board 2006–2014.