Participants
Bo Harald
Head of Executive Advisors at Tieto, Chairman of the EU Expert Group on Electronic Invoicing
Mr. Bo Harald graduated from Åbo Akademi (law, economics and business administration) and joined Union Bank of Finland in 1975 where he first worked in trading, loan syndication and establishing of overseas units in Luxembourg, Singapore and London. Since 1979 he was engaged in promoting and building electronic banking, payments and e-business ser-vices and became known as Mr E-banking. Union Bank of Finland is now a part of Nordea Bank – the largest Nordic bank and a global leader in e-banking and e-business services. Bo Harald was a member of the board of directors and participated in many payment and technology advisory boards before he retired in 2005 and joined Tieto as Head of Executive Advisors. In this task he is working with customer from all sectors with a particular focus on how value can be created by combining business concepts and technology solutions across industries.
Bo was working closely with Tieto already during his time with Nordea as Tieto delivered among others its pan-Nordic e-banking solution and also was a close partner when building the e-invoicing service network. Bo is now chairing the EU Commission Expert Group for e-invoicing and has earned the nickname Mr E-invoicing.
CV
1975-95 Union Bank of Finland, (trading, overseas units, credits, payments, e-banking and e-business solutions, board member and EVP. 1995-2005 same in Merita Bank, MeritaNordbanken and on Nordic group level in Nordea Bank Plc.
Past and present banking and non-banking board memberships (Valmet Transmec, SSH, Ovako, Rocla, LP-group) in Nordic countries
Chairman for Mobey Forum 2000-5
Past and present advisory board memberships Cisco, Microsoft, VISA
2006 – Head of Executive Advisors in Tieto
Chairman for national e-identity development program and mobile ID subgroup
Chairman for EU Commission Expert Group for e-invoicing