BIOGRAPHY

Liisa Kanniainen,
Executive Director, Mobey Forum
Vice President, mobile banking, Nordea

Liisa Kanniainen holds Master of Science degree in International Economics.  After university studies Liisa worked a few years as a polytechnic teacher and acquired also the Polytechnic Teacher qualification.

Liisa Kanniainen has around 13 years experience with the mobile IT Industry, focusing on the mobile financial services. Liisa has led several pioneering projects during the early days of mobile financial services. First she worked at Digital B.V. in the Netherlands, then the next 6 years in Finland at Nokia Corporation. During her Nokia Mobile Phones years Liisa worked in various management positions in product development. Her last position at Nokia Ventures was Head of R&D, mobile commerce.

In 2001 she changed to Nordea Bank and Mobey Forum in order to full time concentrate on creating the cross-industry collaboration required for making the mobile financial services market as the Mobey Forum Workgroup Executive. In Nordea she has been in charge of mobile financial services on corporate level. In Mobey Forum she carries since Feb 2007 the full operational responsibility of all activities and daily management of the Forum as the Executive Director of the cross-industry consortium.