Kaisa H. Hietala

Ms. Kaisa Hietala serves as Independent Director of the Company. Ms. Hietala previously served as Executive Vice President of Renewable Products and member of the Executive Committee at Neste Oil Oyj from 2014 to 2019. At Neste, she held several prior roles from 1998 to 2014. Currently, she is a Partner and co-owner of GAIA Consulting, a sustainable business consultancy focused on helping companies turn climate challenges into profitable business opportunities. Ms. Hietala also currently serves on the Board of Smurfit Kappa Group, an Irish corrugated packaging company and is Chairman of the Board at Tracegrow, a private Finnish sustainable fertilizers company. She is a member of Sustainability Supervisory Board of Aalto University, Finland and a member of the Supervisory Board of Oulu University. She was a former Board member of Kemira Oy, a Finnish specialty chemicals company. Ms. Hietala holds an MS from University of Oulu, Finland, and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, UK.