Pirilä Appointed Communications Director at Finnish Forest Industries Federation

The Finnish Forest Industries Federation has named Anne Pirilä its new communications director. Pirilä he will also serve on the Federation's management board. Helena Aatinen, previous communications director of the Federation, joined Fortum Corp. at the beginning of this month.

Pirilä currently works at Rautaruukki as SVP in charge of communications and investor relations. Before Rautaruukki, she was the communications director of Ahlstrom Corp. She has also worked as a communications consultant at Viestintätoimisto Pohjoisranta and as a news reporter for the Finnish TV channel MTV.

"Anne Pirilä has extensive experience of different sectors of communications as well as strong competence in industrial communications in particular – this will be of great benefit to the forest industry's lobbying efforts," says Timo Jaatinen, director general of the Finnish Forest Industries Federation.

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