Hanna Loikkanen

Hanna Loikkanen was appointed as the Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of Bank of Georgia Group PLC on 24 February 2018. Ms Loikkanen serves as Chair of the Remuneration Committee, as well as a member of the Audit Committee and Nomination Committee. Ms Loikkanen also serves as a member of the Bank’s Supervisory Board. Ms Loikkanen previously served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of BGEO Group PLC, which included positions on their Nomination and Risk Committees.

Ms Loikkanen has over 25 years of experience working with financial institutions in Russia and Eastern Europe. She worked at the Moscow office of a Swedish asset management company East Capital from 2007 until 2015, managing a private equity fund focusing on investments in financial institutions in the region. During this period, she served on the boards of several regional banks, with special focus on corporate governance and business development. Prior to this, Ms Loikkanen held the position of CEO at FIM Group in Russia, a Finnish investment bank, where she was responsible for setting up and running FIM Group’s brokerage and corporate finance operations in Russia. Earlier in her career, Ms Loikkanen worked for Nordea Finance in various senior management positions in Poland, the Baltic States and Scandinavia with a focus on business development, strategy and business integration; for SEB in Moscow where she was responsible for the restructuring of SEB’s debt capital market operations in Russia; and for MeritaNordbanken in St Petersburg where she focused on trade finance and correspondent banking. In addition to her directorships at Bank of Georgia Group PLC, Ms Loikkanen serves as a Non-Executive Director, Chair of the Compensation and Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of PJSC Rosbank, a universal bank listed on the Moscow Stock Exchange (Société Générale Group in Russia), as a Non-Executive Director and a member of HR Committee at Finnish state owned development financier FinnFund, and as a Non-Executive Director of Stockholm First North listed investment company VEF Ltd.. Since 2014, she has acted as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of T&B Capital, an independent regulated wealth management company based in Helsinki.

Ms Loikkanen holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Helsinki School of Economics, and was a Helsinki School of Economics scholar at the University of New South Wales.