Juha Lehtola has joined government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment as an investment manager.
His duties in the direct investments team include assessing growth companies as potential investments and preparing investment decisions.
Before moving to Industry Investment Lehtola was an investment director in Danish private equity firm Nordic Venture Partners and an investment manager in the Finnish company Aura Capital.
‘The financing market for growth companies is going through an extremely interesting phase, as the general economic downturn has presented companies with both new challenges and new opportunities for growth. Now is the right time to invest in promising growth companies,’ Lehtola says.
Lehtola lives in Espoo.