Our Experts
Our experts are world class in agile practices and mindset. Behind every pro there is a team of top-notch experts, with only your success in mind. Our people lead by example and grow your people into their roles.
Our Staff
Susanna Salomaa
Chief People & Growth Officer +358 50 573 5341
Susanna has over 20 years of experience in leadership roles within business and the IT world. She has walked in the shoes of both clients and service providers, so she knows what successful collaboration and customer experience require on both sides. Susanna aligns business objectives with people’s motivation in a way that drives change and enables teams to thrive.
Heidi Grönroos
Business Development Lead +358 50 3879037
Heidi serves as a Business Development Lead, responsible for business development, new customer acquisition, and growing existing client relationships. Her background as a cultural producer and sales professional combines precision, creativity, and strategic thinking. Alongside her work, Heidi is currently further strengthening her expertise through studies in strategic leadership. Her strong experience in sales, customer acquisition, event production, and project management across various industries enables her to identify opportunities and build sustainable solutions. Heidi is a solution-oriented, innovative, and goal-driven team player who enjoys taking on new challenges.
Elina Kervinen
Organisational Coach & CEO +358 40 552 6022
Elina is our CEO and the other Co-Founder of Taskmill, and both an experienced Agile Evangelist and an efficient hands-on Agile Leader. She has more than 15 years of practical and strategic experience in ramping up challenging development projects in varying circumstances. She devotes to finding the best fit agile models to serve you as a customer, and your valuable existing and prospective customers. Elina has a good business acumen, and is often successful in elaborating and crystallizing the meaning of agile change to all organizational levels, including the top management.
Jutta Glad
Agile Leadership Consultant & COO +358 40 540 8664
Jutta is the co-founder and COO of Taskmill. Jutta’s practical understanding of agile methodology extends beyond team boundaries, clarifying everyone’s understanding of how to operate as part of an efficient agile organization. Jutta combines efficiency, emotional intelligence, and expertise in agile tools. Additionally, Jutta has strong experience in leading agile projects and developing operational models.
Minna Mäki
Minna is a finance professional with over 25 years of experience in the industry. She is particularly skilled in clear and impactful communication across different stakeholders and works naturally with both experts and management. She is driven by a strong desire to continuously learn and understand the underlying reasons behind things – Minna asks “why” before considering “how.” This mindset makes her a valuable partner in development and change initiatives.
Rita Saastamoinen
Rita works as our financial specialist. Her job description focuses on financial and personnel management tasks, such as invoice processing, payment and follow-up, as well as managing salary and contract matters. In addition, Rita assists in tasks related to sales and marketing.
Tomi Korpela
Agile Leadership Consultant, CTO
Tomi has more than 25 years of experience in IT development. During his career, he has worked, among other roles, as a hands-on application developer, system expert, technology director and IT architect. During the last few year Tomi’s tasks have been oriented towards the agile world – he has, for example, led development teams to more rational ways of working, acted as a Scrum Master in critical projects, and coordinated the activities of stakeholders. Equipped with many tools, Tomi has learned that the most important thing is to not be afraid to get your hands dirty.
Elina Jolma
Organisational Coach +358 50 304 0243
Elina is responsible at Taskmill for the consulting services portfolio, its development, and consulting ways of working. She also serves as an expert in organizational development, product management, and change capability. Elina helps organizations clarify direction, lead through goals, and build operating models where teams thrive and strategy turns into concrete results in everyday work. Her strength lies in combining business, people, and development in a way that increases clarity, ownership, and genuine collaboration across team boundaries. She has deep industry expertise particularly in the financial sector and retail.
Emma Kettunen
Emma makes sure everyday life at Taskmill runs effortlessly. She’s organized, reliable, and always ready to lend a hand. With experience in administration, finance, and customer service, Emma approaches every task with calm confidence and care. Emma brings positive energy, structure, and dependability to the team.
Harri Pendolin
Lead Consultant, Product Management
Harri has over 20 years of experience in product management and software development. He has helped numerous organisations strengthen their product expertise, improve collaboration, and put strategy into practice, both as a product leader and as a coach. Harri’s special expertise includes software products, SaaS development, and product management operating models. Harri combines strategic vision with practical execution, and his passion is to help teams and organisations succeed in product management.
Inka Sarén
Inka has over 20 years of experience in business development as well as in leading projects, programs, and teams on both the client and service provider sides. She combines business objectives with people’s motivation, ensuring that projects move forward and teams succeed together while staying on schedule. Inka is known for earning clients’ trust and for her ability to build winning teams. She has also been responsible for developing various operating models and processes, including in the area of portfolio management, and is committed to driving change all the way through to completion.
Juliana Lindqvist
Juliana has strong experience in business development, project management, and team leadership. She combines strategic thinking with a customer-focused approach to turn goals into concrete results and help teams succeed together. Juliana’s background in product management, data-driven decision-making, and developing new services supports her ability to build measurable objectives and implement change in practice. Juliana helps organizations and teams grow, renew, and achieve their goals through data and agile ways of working.
Kristiina Lindh
Lead Consultant, Strategy & Leadership
Kristiina has over 20 years of experience in leading complex transformations and executing strategy. Her core expertise lies in supporting organizations in strategy execution, goal-oriented leadership, and building operating models that enable continuous improvement and strong execution capability. Kristiina’s strength is her extensive background in business leadership, strategy execution, and change leadership, combined with a practical and solution-focused coaching approach. She is an experienced leadership team coach and board professional who moves naturally between strategic and operational levels. Kristiina is driven by helping clients succeed together and turn strategy into measurable results and continuous development.
Mikko Piiroinen
Agile Leadership Consultant +358 40 342 43 05
Mikko is the dream member of any development team, whether you need an efficient Scrum Master to speed up the team, or a trusted Product Owner to crystalize the targets. Mikko understands the team dynamics well, and gets along smoothly with different team stakeholders from designers to end users and developers. Mikko’s toolbox includes any needed frameworks from Scrum to Kanban and LeSS to SAFe, and the necessary tools from Trello to Jira. Mikko has a previous background as journalist so he is also a fluent content producer.
Tarja Pehtonen
Tarja Pehtonen has over 15 years of experience in testing and quality assurance within the finance and IT sectors. She has worked as a test manager and IT specialist in demanding projects, being responsible for test planning, coordination, and ensuring system quality. Tarja’s core expertise includes test management, developing testing processes, and testing banking- and insurance systems.
Toni Takala
Toni brings over 11 years of experience from the insurance and IT sectors, and he’s used to working in an agile way – both as a team lead and a hands-on expert. He’s built solutions that truly support the customer’s everyday needs and has led development as both a product owner and a consultant. Toni gets excited about solving problems and seeing teams create meaningful results together. At Taskmill, Toni helps our clients build agile ways of working that don’t just sound good – they deliver real outcomes and satisfied people.
Timo Ruottinen
Agile Leadership Consultant +358 40 846 80 54
Timo truly has the know-how to implement agile! He started his career hands-on, working with code and architecture. Since then, Timo has worked both as a team coach and supervisor and driven important development goals as a product manager. His solid experience and successes and some coincidences has made Timo a confident do-er who doesn’t crack under pressure, and whose coaching and calm grip makes him a great addition to any team.
Hanna Havulinna
Hanna’s core expertise lies in change management. She leads IT projects using agile methods, guides organizations through change in a structured way, and supports different stakeholder groups in adopting new ways of working. As a change coach, Hanna ensures that change becomes visible through concrete everyday actions. Hanna works naturally in international multi-vendor environments, where success requires clear communication, cultural awareness, and alignment of diverse stakeholder objectives. Her strong language skills enable smooth collaboration across organizational and national boundaries. Hanna’s superpower is customer centricity: she carefully analyzes client needs and builds solutions that support both business goals and people’s ability to work effectively during change. With a background as a language specialist, she began her career as a lecturer in Italian. Today, she prefers speaking the language of agility and acts as a bridge between business and development teams.
Virpi Repo
Virpi is a professional in operational development, specializing in designing and improving operating models from executive level to team level. She has built Lean- and agile-based operating models for organizations of various sizes and led their implementation, including training and enablement. The objectives of these operating model transformations have included faster lead times, increased transparency, reduced waste, improved customer value, and more effective collaboration. In addition to developing operating models, Virpi has worked as an Agile Coach and as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) in SAFe trains consisting of 7–14 teams. In her work, she combines strong business and IT understanding, acts proactively, and drives initiatives decisively to completion. She is especially known for her hands-on approach — she engages deeply in her work with strong commitment and a genuine customer service mindset.
Eduard Kempi
Senior consultant, Product development
Eduard has over 15 years of international experience in product development, technology consulting, and managing development projects. He has held key roles in large enterprises and has also run his own tech startup. He brings strong expertise in agile tools and in leveraging AI in product development. Eduard’s strengths include an entrepreneurial mindset, and he greatly enjoys developing customer-centric products and services.
Maija Autti
Maija knows the secrets of software development like the back of her hand! During her career, Maija has, for example, led various projects and small-scale development, developed systems in a multi-supplier environment, and been responsible for testing and quality assurance. With vast experience, Maija is also an agile master – for example, rationalizing operating methods and processes are things Maija is familiar with. Maija has also seen first-hand that agile methods familiar from software development can indeed be applied regardless of industry, for example in finance or trade.
Markus Laatikainen
Markus has over fifteen years of experience in implementing and developing various agile methods and frameworks, such as SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban. He has helped numerous organizations achieve significant improvements in agility, team collaboration, and productivity. With a strong background in the banking and financial sector, he excels at facilitating change, removing obstacles, and promoting continuous improvement. Markus’s coaching is solution-focused and hands-on, ensuring concrete results and readiness for ongoing change.
Mila Hildén
Mila has broad and versatile experience in developing systems, services, and operating models across software development, finance, and the gaming industry. Over the years, she has gained extensive experience in leading projects and agile teams, both as a Product Owner and as a Project Manager. She has also been involved in planning and executing large-scale development initiatives as well as developing PMO functions. In addition, Mila has contributed extensively to building organization-wide operating models and processes, particularly to support strategic leadership and agile ways of working — including change management (incl. the OKR framework), project management, product management, and quality management.
Rasmus Ståhle
Organisational Coach +358 44 705 3234
Rasmus helps organizations build clarity, direction, and effective ways of working together. He collaborates with leadership teams and employees to develop operating models, strengthen collaboration, and ensure that strategy translates into tangible results in everyday work. With nearly three decades of experience in developing organizations and operating models, Rasmus is known for his calm, inclusive, and practical approach. He has a strong ability to listen, facilitate even difficult conversations, and build shared understanding that leads to sustainable change.
Ville-Veikko Järvilehto
Ville-Veikko has one decade of experience in software and service development as a product owner and Scrum Master, complemented by expertise in music, intellectual property rights, and media industries. He has been involved in many larger and smaller system projects, in addition to always being part of developing the ways of working and processes in work communities. Ville-Veikko’s strengths include coordinating technical details and commercial objectives and acting as a translator between these stakeholders.
Isa Vogel
Chief Commercial Officer +358 40 052 5520
Isa is responsible for the overall sales and customer relationships at Taskmill, from new customer acquisition to long-term partnerships. She builds sustainable, trust-based client relationships. Isa’s work combines strategic business understanding, agile execution, and a strong ability to identify customers’ real needs. Thanks to her expert background, Isa quickly grasps complex entities and ensures that Taskmill’s services and experts support clients in the best possible way.
Ulla Lehtonen
Ulla is a hands-on change facilitator and implementer who helps teams and stakeholders set goals, deliver value, and stay motivated when adopting new ways of working. She is a professional in product leadership and agile methods, with broad experience in guiding software development teams as well as applying agility in other types of work. In her work, Ulla emphasizes psychological safety, collaboration, a culture of experimentation, and building shared understanding. Her key strengths are authenticity, appreciation of others, and flexibility.
Antti Oikarinen
Antti is an experienced quality assurance professional with a proven track record in leading international teams and managing multi-vendor environments. He has a strong background in guiding cross-functional teams, supporting high-quality software development, driving business growth through data-driven decision-making and ensuring customer success at every stage of the process.
Auli Mikkonen
Auli is a versatile and experienced professional with over 20 years of experience in developing systems, services, and operating models in various roles, particularly in the telecommunications and financial sectors. She began her IT career as an application developer and system specialist, and has since led numerous projects in different capacities, utilizing both the waterfall model and various agile methodologies. She has also served as a supervisor and coach for technical teams. Her strengths include a hands-on, solution-oriented, and customer-centric approach. Auli excels at building team spirit and motivating people to perform at their best. In addition, she quickly grasps even large and complex entities.
Leila Ovaska
Leila is an expert in quality assurance and testing, with over 30 years of experience primarily in the finance and insurance sectors. She has served as a Test Manager but are also proficient in hands-on testing work. Leila has experience with various testing methods and tools. She is analytical, persistent, and detail-oriented. Her extensive experience and versatile skills make them a true professional in testing and quality assurance.
Our Partner Trainers
Andreas Björk
Management of Agile Frameworks
Andreas builds strongly performing teams, and value producing companies. He has led various successful transformations, product launches, and critical projects. Andreas is an efficient agile coach and an experienced virtual team leader. He holds the recipes the scale agility outside the IT area and inspire employees to participate the change. Andreas speaks fluent English, Swedish, and Finnish.
Jaakko Koivula
Trainer, PO, Scrum Master
Jaakko is a specialist and advocate of agile methodologies. He is a skilled and experienced product owner and Scrum Master, and also adept at project management. Additionally, Jaakko is highly respected as a trainer, teaching organisations how to use Scrum and agile methodologies. He draws on his extensive experience to provide practical examples to participants.
Jaakko emphasizes the importance of building and maintaining trust in everything he does, as it is the secret ingredient behind success.
John Inge Hervik
Head of AWA Norge Training | ICF-PCC
John Inge is a PCC certified coach from ICF with more than 15 years experience in agile ways of working. He has a technical background from software development, and has also studied psychology and coaching.
His approach to agility is value-based, and focuses on contributing to improvements in the organisations he works for. This approach emphasises increased trust, good communication, continuous learning and a defined agile mindset. The result is better anchored organisational and process changes where value creation is at the centre.
He gets feedback that his enthusiasm really engages the participants and makes complicated topics available for everyone.
Jose Casal
Flight Levels, Training from the Back of the Room
Jose Casal is a business agility consultant & trainer with extensive experience. He is dedicated to helping organisations and individuals embrace modern management concepts including Flow Thinking, Kanban, Flight Levels & Scrum.
Jose is strongly motivated towards continuous learning and research, he is able to help organisations achieve better Agility. His goal is to create thriving and engaged organisations.
Tiina Nevalainen
Senior Consultant / Test Manager
Tiina has extensive and broad experience in software testing and working closely with the customer interface. As a Test Manager in her daily work, she strives to ensure that the customer’s needs are adequately addressed in the implementation. Hands-on experience has taught her the importance of getting the business to understand the significance of testing and making sensible choices for the overall outcome. After Tiina’s training, you will have a better understanding of the choices that need to be made in your project and how to drive testing comprehensively and efficiently forward.
Timo Rongas
Mr. Remote By Nature
Timo has a developer’s background, and has worked with various different types of agile teams in varying agile roles for a long time. Team and organization management is close to Timo’s heart, and he is also a keen innovator of efficient remote work models. Even if, in the optimal situation, the agile team and the whole project work in the same physical space, it is not always possible, and Timo holds the skills to manage dispersed and complex working environments.
Vilja Heikiö
Vilja has 15+ years of UX and service design with companies like Nokia, Etisalat, and latest F-Secure, where also working as a Head of CX. She has successfully utilized design sprints, workshops and customer centric design methods in agile product development environment. She will gently but firmly guide you to the world of service design, and help you solve the right customer problems.
Wolfgang Steffens
Transformation & Organisational Design Consultant
Wolfgang on intohimoinen, energinen, inspiraatioita antava ja autenttinen valmentaja, jolla on yli 10 vuoden kokemus laajamittaisesta Lean- ja Agile-tuotekehityksestä. Hän on systeeminen ajattelija, organisaation muotoilun valmentaja, sertifioitu CAO-kouluttaja, sertifioitu LeSS-kouluttaja ja -valmentaja, Agile-valmentaja sekä Scrum Master.
Jussi Lattu
Jussi is one of Finland’s top experts in modelling automatized processes and developing automation. He has a wide understanding of automatization both from a business and technical perspective and knows the best practices for implementation. Jussi’s super power is increasing understanding between the business and tech units, and helping people define common goals and achieve them.