Career
Since January 16, 2012, Natalya Svetushkova has become the new general director of Tieto Rus LLC and regional manager in Russia. In this position, she will be responsible for Tieto's operational activities in Russia, focusing her efforts on strengthening existing business and growing sales, the company said in an official statement.
Veli Pirttiaho, who has held the position of Acting Regional Manager of Tieto in Russia, has been Chief Operating Officer since January 16. Mr. Pirttiaho has been with Tieto for more than 25 years, of which the past four years have been associated with Russia. In the new position, he will be responsible for the activities of Tieto Business Lines technical units in the country. In addition, he is entrusted with the task of helping Natalia in business, sales and communication with other Tieto divisions.
Natalia has two higher education (mathematics and finance), received at universities in Moscow. Natalia Svetushkova's professional experience in the Russian IT industry has more than 15 years, during which she has accumulated deep knowledge of project management at the international level.
Earlier, Natalia held various positions related to business development, consulting and management at SAP and its Russian and foreign partner companies, as well as at Hewlett-Packard. The decision to appoint Natalia was influenced by the fact that she repeatedly proved the ability to build a business: for example, participating in the creation and development of the Hewlett-Packard High Technology Center (Moscow) in 2004-2006 and the opening of the proaxia consulting group in Russia in 2010-2011.
According to Wim Hausman, Vice President for Central Europe and Russia Tieto, commenting on the appointment, Russia is an "interesting market" for IT service companies, and Tieto also has its "special plans" in this region.
In January 2020, Natalya Svetushkova headed the TietoEVRY in Russia. Under her leadership, Tieto's business developed over the previous eight years.
2021: Head of the digitalization committee of the Russian-German VTP
On May 11, 2021 Russian-German Chamber of Commerce , the election of the head of the digitalization committee was held. Following the voting of the members - RossiyskoThe German VTP, Natalya Svetushkova, general director, was elected chairman. TietoEVRY Russia Her first deputy was a Alexander Ermakov partner, the Awara IT Solutions TietoEVRY reported on May 19, 2021.
Natalya Svetushkova has held leadership positions in Russian and the European IT Russian companies for more than 20 years, of which 10 years - as general director. TietoEVRY
Having extensive experience in participating in IT projects, and actively studying digitalization trends, Natalya aims to make the work of the committee more interesting, brighter and most useful for all business segments.
Its task is to allow committee members to quickly receive information about digital innovations and successful cases in IT, as well as to consider and discuss the most popular topics of digitalization of the economy.
The Digital Technology Committee has been operating since 2016 and is a platform for networking all member companies of the Russian-German VTP. Participants can exchange experiences, receive information about new technologies and digital trends in the business sector, such as robotization and,, Industry 4.0 Internet of things digital, infrastructure development,,,, ON startups cyber security electronic commerce electronic, marketing as well as IT legislation.