Leadership Team.

Jan Kritz Jan Kritz

Jan Kritz

Group CEO

Jan’s unique combo of cloud-first expertise and positive leadership style makes him the perfect leader for Nordcloud. Together with his team of cloud ninjas, Jan supports customers at every step of their journey, helping them harness the power of an agile, cloud-native approach. Having previously held senior leadership positions at Capgemini and Atos among others, in his 5+ years at Nordcloud, he’s overseen our growth as we’ve cemented our position as Europe’s leading cloud-native partner.

Ilja Summala Ilja Summala

Ilja Summala

Group CTO

Ilja is a legend in the tech industry. After 12 years at tech giant Nokia, he joined Nordcloud as CTO in 2012 to lead us on our journey to become a full-stack, cloud-native system integrator. His passion and unparalleled technological skills help customers transform the way they manage infrastructure and develop applications in a cloud-native world.

Jaana Salmela Jaana Salmela

Jaana Salmela

Professional Services

Having held numerous leadership roles at both global and regional levels, Jaana has played a pivotal role in shaping and enhancing Nordcloud’s delivery culture and quality. With a robust background in managing enterprise-grade IT service teams and consulting organisations, she is tasked with scaling and enhancing our global professional services teams and offerings to meet the evolving demands of our key markets.

Tapio Koskinen Tapio Koskinen

Tapio Koskinen

Global Sales & Marketing

Want a cloud-native tech whiz who truly understands things from the customer’s side of the table? Tapio’s your guy. As our Global Sales Lead, he’s all about getting the right solutions and services to the right people, so everyone from directors to devs benefit from everything the public cloud has to offer. Certified in AWS and experienced in Azure and Google Cloud Platform, Tapio, along with his global team, give you impartial advice grounded in cloud-native experience.

Niko Mykkänen Niko Mykkänen

Niko Mykkänen

Alliances

We’re all about the power of collaboration at Nordcloud, which is why Niko plays such an important role. He’s the strategic link between our hyperscaler and technology partners, customers and internal teams – helping everyone drive more growth and innovation from public cloud capabilities. His impressive career has spanned leadership roles at AWS and Nokia, and he has a particular interest in AI and predictive analytics.

Petteri Uljas Petteri Uljas

Petteri Uljas

NCEE Sales

Petteri began his career as a software developer and has ascended through global leadership roles and board positions across multiple countries, within Capgemini and Tietoevry. His passion lies in achieving objectives through people, forging cohesive teams from diverse professional and cultural mixes, and fostering trust that sees results for both us and our customers. Petteri believes that there’s no cloud without people.

Scott Eivers Scott Eivers

Scott Eivers

UK Sales

Scott brings a wealth of experience at building successful services businesses in the technology sector into Nordcloud. Prior to Nordcloud Scott has led a variety of growth roles including most recently building the business consulting team of Gartner in EMEA.His role today is to lead the UK region, driving growth through the multiple sales and commercial routes. This builds upon his previous role at Nordcloud as the Chief Growth Officer where he had responsibility for building various growth acceleration initiatives including marketing, product mgmt, commercial mgmt and corporate development

Thomas Baus Thomas Baus

Thomas Baus

DACH Sales

Having been part of Nordcloud for most of the company’s lifespan, Thomas has dedicated heart and mind to nurturing our brand, expanding our customer base, fostering our team, and enriching our culture within our German-speaking regions. After holding various global positions, he now returns to focus on our ongoing growth and success journey in the DACH region.

Nilay Mardikar Nilay Mardikar

Nilay Mardikar

Migrations

Starting his career as a software developer, Nilay has been in the IT realm since 1994, having worked for the likes of Atos, Tietoevry, Capgemini, and Birlasoft previously. He’s committed to working closely with clients to define cloud success. Extensive experience in sales, solutions and delivery helps Nilay support individuals in various teams to thrive. In his current role, Our ambition is to broaden migration and post migration modernization delivery to foster growth, reliability, predictability with reuse and profitability for Nordcloud and IBM. Nilay has strong experience in critical delivery and sales, solutions roles including strategic engagements with different customers in Nordics, EMEA.

Indrayudh Ghosh Indrayudh Ghosh

Indrayudh Ghosh

Platform Engineering Services

Indra brings extensive experience in sales and delivery across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. As a tech evangelist and growth-oriented professional, Indra specializes in orchestrating large end-to-end deliveries while maintaining a steadfast focus on people. In the constantly evolving tech landscape, Indra spearheads the expansion of Nordcloud’s platform engineering services through AI and automation, driven by the collective efforts of our people.

Maria Ihamuotila Maria Ihamuotila

Maria Ihamuotila

Chief of Staff

Bringing expertise in strategy consulting, international expansion, and operational project management within dynamic, high-growth environments, Maria spearheads the development of Nordcloud’s group strategy and operations. She is driven by a passion for multidisciplinary topics and excels in translating strategy into actionable plans through clear communication, robust cross-functional collaboration, and data-driven problem-solving.

Ram Kumar Ram Kumar

Ram Kumar

Chief People Officer

Customer value focus

How do you make great things happen in the cloud? By having a crack team of cloud ninjas leading and supporting you. Which is where Ram comes in. He has the perfect combination of cloud/tech and HR experience, honed over decades working with the likes of IBM, Wipro, Nokia, Microsoft and Cloudator. His leadership helps ensure our customers and our colleagues benefit from strategies, processes and development opportunities that put them at the cutting edge of cloud.

Talent focus

Our purpose as a company is to accelerate the world to a more equal, greener and sustainable digital society. And that requires a team of uniquely talented people working together to achieve greatness. That’s where Ram comes in. He helps us build and nurture our team of digital builders born in the cloud – drawing on deep cloud/tech and people experience honed over decades working with the likes of IBM, Wipro, Nokia, Microsoft and Cloudator. 

Mette Lemming Mette Lemming

Mette Lemming

Chief Financial Officer

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