Collan, Yrjö William Mikael Sex: Male Date of This CV: 31.8.2016

CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Name

Name: Collan, Yrjö William Mikael Sex: Male Date of this CV: 31.8.2016

2. Date and place of birth, nationality, current residence

Year of birth: 1975, Helsinki, Finland Nationality: Finnish Place of residence: Salo, Finland

3. Education and degrees awarded

Degree titles:

D. Sc. (Economics and Business Administration), Åbo Akademi University, major: Information Systems, graduation date: 17.12.2004 [Supervisor: Professor Christer Carlsson - [email protected]]

M.Soc.Sc., Åbo Akademi University, Major: Economics, graduation date: 15.12.2000

Title of Docent:

Title of Docent at Åbo Akademi University, information systems especially investment and financial planning, 1.7.2008-30.6.2013 – renewed 30.6.2013 for five years until 30.6.2017.

Title of Docent at Lappeenranta University of Technology, strategy research, especially real options in management decision-making, 1.2.2009 onwards

4. Other education and training, qualifications and skills

 A large handful of doctoral and other courses on different topics with regards to financial analysis and planning, international business, and information systems  Sargeant in reserve, Finnish Coastal Artillery

5. Language skills

Mother tongue: Finnish

Other languages: English: Fluent (written & oral) Swedish: Fluent (written & oral) Italian: Fluent (written & oral) Spanish: Basic (written & oral) German: Basic (written & oral)

6. Current position

Professor of strategic finance Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) Lappeenranta, Finland 01.01.2013 – 31.12.2017 (five year contract)

 Academic director of the Master’s Program in Economics and Business Administration on Strategic Finance and Business Analytics (MSF) 1.1.2013 onwards  Academic director of the Master´s Program in Industrial Engineering and Management on Business Analytics (MBAN) – starting in Fall 2017  Director, Innovation and Software competence area at LUT School of Business and Management 20.4.2016 – 31.8.2016  Acting director of the Department of Economics and Law 1.9.2013 – 28.2.2014  Vice-director of the Department of Economics and Law, 1.1.2013 – 31.8.2014

Additional current positions:

Member of the board of directors Fennicum Financial Consulting Ltd. December, 2000 –

Member of the board of directors SilentQuote Oy Ltd. February, 2007 –

7. Previous work experience

Member of the board of directors Vaadin Inc. (http://www.vaadin.com) June, 2006 – January, 2016 (after a $6M mezzanine financing round)

Visiting Professor University of Trento, Italy - Department of Industrial Engineering September – October, 2014

Visiting researcher University of Trento, Italy - Department of Industrial Engineering 04-05/2013

Professor, Accounting Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) Lappeenranta, Finland 01.11.2011 – 31.12.2012

University lecturer, Information Systems University of Turku Pori, Finland 1.11.2010 – 31.10.2011

 Information systems degree program lead  Chairman of the panel for development of research at the Pori Unit  Member of the Pori Unit steering group  Member of the panel for developing teaching at the Unit

Project manager and senior researcher Redevelop, TEKES funded industry research project at IAMSR, Åbo Akademi University Turku, Finland 1.5.2009 – 1.12.2010

 Industrial consortium research project on strategic IPR valuation and management  Consortium members Berggren, Kemira, StoraEnso, Kondis Finland Oy

Assistant professor Department for IT, Technical Faculty, Åbo Akademi University Turku, Finland 1.1.2009 – 31.7.2009

Project manager and senior researcher OptionsStrat, TEKES funded industry research project at IAMSR, Åbo Akademi University Turku, Finland 1.5.2007 – 31.12.2008

 Industrial consortium research project on real options in investment portfolios  Consortium members: Kemira, UPM-Kymmene, Kuntarahoitus, Cargotec

Senior consultant Gutta Oy (Private consulting company) Helsinki, Finland December, 2006 – November, 2007

 Project and corporate strategy consulting and financial & operational development  Business and group controlling  ERP systems roll-out

Principal Lecturer (FIN: Yliopettaja) Turku University of Applied Sciences Salo, Finland August, 2005 – December, 2006

 Project manager for an award winning practice enterprise project  Project manager for “From SEM to SME”, Interreg IIIA, EU project

Member of the external steering group Salo Region Business Incubator Salo, Finland August, 2005 – December, 2012

Researcher Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research, Abo Akademi University, Finland - WAENO Research project on giga-investment profitability (Completion of my D.Sc.) - OptionsPorts Research project on industrial real options March 2001 – July 2005

Lecturer (Paid on course by course basis) Department of Information Systems, Åbo Akademi University Turku, Finland October, 2000 – December, 2006 and September, 2007 - December, 2010

 Teaching of a number of courses in the department curriculum and acting as superviser of master’s thesis  Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research (IAMSR)

8. Research funding as well as leadership and supervision

Project manager and senior researcher – team leader for a small research team Redevelop, TEKES funded industry research project at IAMSR, Åbo Akademi University Principal research proposal writer; PI Prof. Christer Carlsson; member of project steering group 1.5.2009 – 1.12.2010 (the project continued until 2012; total budget in the hundreds of 1000’s of €)

Project manager and senior researcher – team leader for a small research team OptionsStrat, TEKES funded industry research project at IAMSR, Åbo Akademi University Participating in the research proposal writing; PI Prof. Christer Carlsson; member of project steering group 1.5.2007 – 31.12.2008 (the project had started before I started to officially work for it; total budget in the hundreds of 1000’s of €)

Project manager for “From SEM to SME”, Interreg IIIA, EU project – research group lead Full control of project management, member of project steering group August, 2005 – December, 2006 (project had been applied by others, I ran it for about 1½ years)

A number of smaller personal research and travel scholarships. In addition, experience from many applications as PI, including 3 times EU COST (with 15 partner universities from 9 countries), TEKES, and Academy of Finland. Unfortunately un-funded.

9. Merits in teaching and pedagogical competence

Curriculum planning:  Lappeenranta University of Technology: Academic director of the Master’s Program on Strategic Finance (MSF) 1.1.2013 onwards  Lappeenranta University of Technology: Academic director of the Master´s Program in Business Analytics – planning the program in order for it to start in the Fall 2016  University of Turku, Pori Unit: Information systems degree program lead, Member of the panel for developing teaching at the Unit  Turku University of Applied Sciences: as principal lecturer responsible for the teaching programme of the department  Personally planned, prepared, and executed approximately thirty courses during the last fifteen years

Ph.D. Student supervision:  Presently supervisor of six doctoral students at Lappeenranta University of Technology  Supervisor of one finished doctoral student.  Presently second supervisor of a doctoral student at Åbo Akademi University

Supervision of M.Sc. and B.Sc. theses:  Currently supervising ~15 M.Sc. theses  In 2014-15 supervised 25 M.Sc. theses (finished), and 13 as the second supervisor  Multiple (in the tens) ready B.Sc. and M.Sc. thesis supervisions at four universities

Teaching awards:  Teacher of the Year 2011 – Selected by the student association “Porin Kylterit ry” at the University of Turku School of Business, Pori Unit  Teacher of the Year 2009 - Selected by the association of the economics and business administration students “Merkantila Klubben rf.” At the Abo Akademi University.

Teaching portfolio available at request

10. Other academic merits (selected)

 Ordinary member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters (Suomen Tiedeseura) – one of the four Finnish academies of science  Chairman of the board of the Finnish Operations Research Society (FORS), member of the board since 2012  Chairman of the Board of the Finnish Real Option Society 2010 -  Member of the North European Society for Adaptive and Intelligent Systems 2010 –  Senior Member of the International Association for Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT)  Associate member of the IEEE (until 2014)  EUA-EPUE (European University Association – European Platform of Universities Engaged in Energy Research, Education and Training) Mirror Group Expert Member for Horizontal Field II: Coordination of Education and Training Systems.  Faculty appointed reviewer in assessing the academic competence of an applicant for a title of docent at the Dept. of Information Systems at Abo Akademi university (2014)  Faculty appointed external reviewer in assessing tenure for full professorship, Department of Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada (2012)  Faculty appointed reviewer in assessing academic performance for a contract extension of a professor, Department of Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada (2010)  Faculty appointed opponent for the Doctoral Dissertation of now D.Sc. Jan Edelmann, at the Lappeenranta University of Technology. (2011)  Faculty appointed opponent pre-examiner for the Doctoral thesis of Juho-Kusti Kajander, at Aalto University (2016)  Editorial Board Member International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change (IJISSC)  Member of the Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in IT (ISOJDIT)  Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the J. of Applied Operational Research (JAOR)  Conference chairman or co-chairman in numerous international conferences  Stream organizer in many international conferences  Referee for numerous international journals and conferences (dozens)  Numerous invited keynote lectures abroad (Italy, Hungary, Thailand, Germany, Czech Republic etc.)

11. Positions of trust in society and other societal merits

 Member of the Board of the Philatelic Federation of Finland 2016 -  Member of the Council of the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences of the Åbo Akademi University 2003-2005  Deputy Member of the Board of Åbo Akademi University 2003-2005  Deputy Member of the Council of the Department of Information Systems, Åbo Akademi University 10/2003 – 2005

 Deputy member / member of the Åbo Akademi University Collegium 2010 – 2012  Deputy member of the council of the IT department, TkF, ÅA 02/2009 – 12/2009  Member of the board and cashier of Forskarföreningen vid Åbo Akademi (The Researcher's Association of ÅA), 2002 - 2005  Member of the Steering Group for TEKES research project Redevelop 2009 – 2010  Member of the Steering Group for TEKES research project OptionsStrat 2006-2008  Member of the Steering Group for TEKES project on Fuel Cells, 2006  Member of the Steering Group for From SEM to SME Interreg IIIA Project 12/2005 – 12/2006  Member of the SYKÄYS group (Planning of education in the Salo area) 09/2005-09/2006

12. Scientific and societal impact of research work

 About 35 journal articles  12 book chapters, 9 monographs, 65 peer-reviewed conference articles  611 citations according to Harzings publish or perish (30.09.2016), H index 14 (Harzing)  More than 150 publications in total  Web sites http://www.payoffmethod.com (over 5000 visitors) and http://www.lazyusermodel.org  RePEc shows over 11800 abstract views and 3600 downloads of my 9 papers listed there (http://logec.repec.org/RAS/pco318.htm) – I seem to still be on the ~24th position of Finnish authors on total downloads / abstract views

13. Other merits

Father of two beautiful children