Aija Bärlund

Partner, Chief Executive Search | Board Member | Board Chair | Author: Voittajajohtoryhmät & Vastuullinen hallituksen jäsen.

📍 Finland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025
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Feb 2022
We live and breathe esports. Our mission is to help gamers become e-athletes by providing comprehensive solutions and tools for gamers. We vision a world where playing esports is recognized as not just gaming, but as an act on improving skills and ability to thrive through the most demanding circumstances. Unevn has a passion to revolutionize the transportability of high-end professional gaming equipment. We believe there is a demand for compact and powerful gaming entity where you have everything for a high-end gaming experience.
Board Member
Jan 2019
We are on the food side - promoting more sustainable cooking methods and delighting the world with tasteful solutions.
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2025
Board Member
Mar 2025
Tuotamme ihmisen arvoisia maahanmuutto- ja lastensuojelupalveluja, mielenterveys- ja päihdepalveluja sekä tarjoamme palveluasumista ikäihmisille. Toimintamme kattaa yli 20 asumisyksikköä eri puolella Suomea ja meillä työskentelee yli 500 hyvinvointialan ammattilaista.
2024
Board Member
Apr 2024
Elecster is the leading company in the world as a system supplier for UHT lines, Aseptic Pouch Filling Machines and ecological Pouch Packaging Materials. With over 50 years experience of engineering and manufacturing of dairy machinery and packaging material it has developed the superior know-how of compatibility required for milk pouch technology.
Partner
Jan 2024
Executive Search – and far beyond. Chief exists to make our clients succeed. In addition to the premium executive search process, we coach each leader to in reaching sustainable results and high performance. Our value for you is embedded in the three promises: 1. Our goal is to make your strategy work. Thus, we analyse your business inside out. We gather and share valuable insight. 2. We find, attract and assess the leaders that are best prepared to take your company to the next stage. 3. We coach and support each leader and their readiness and stay there for the first year to maximise the ROI on your executive recruitment. We are a boutique executive search firm with an international soul, located in Helsinki city center. As our name ‘Chief’ indicates, our focus and best expertise is at board and c-level assignments. Chief is specialised in following roles: ▫️Board chair & members ▫️CEO ▫️CFO ▫️COO ▫️CHRO ▫️CMO ▫️CSO ▫️CIO ▫️CDO ▫️Country Manager ▫️Managing Director ▫️EVP, SVP & VP level roles in Large Cap organisations. Delivering executive search to the highest standards requires having all the essential elements of a top quality search process in place as we do. In addition, we’ve designed a Leadership Performance Program (LPP) that is provided for all hired candidates as an essential part of our search process. The program takes place during the leader’s first 6 months. The LPP allows the candidates placed by Chief to perform better than the same candidates placed by another search firm would. Our best expertise covers following verticals: - Information Technology and Digitalisation - Venture Capital and Private Equity - Industry and Manufacturing Wherever you have a leadership need, we can assist you. Chief is a member of Global Executive Search, an international network of independent Executive Search firms in 35 countries. If you have a need to hire an executive that moves the needle for your business, reach out: +358 40 809 5291 / www.chief.fi
2022
Investor
Feb 2022
We live and breathe esports. Our mission is to help gamers become e-athletes by providing comprehensive solutions and tools for gamers. We vision a world where playing esports is recognized as not just gaming, but as an act on improving skills and ability to thrive through the most demanding circumstances. Unevn has a passion to revolutionize the transportability of high-end professional gaming equipment. We believe there is a demand for compact and powerful gaming entity where you have everything for a high-end gaming experience.
2021
Interim Managing Director
Sep 2021
FiBAN is a Finnish non-profit association of private investors and one of the largest and most active business angel networks in Europe with 600+ investor members in 12 countries. A matchmaker of growth-ready early-stage startups and private investors. Our three main activities are: 👉 Matchmaking startups and private investors 👉 Sharing and developing angel investing best practices via certified investor training. 👉 Representing private investors​ interest in societal matters and through producing data from the early-stage investment landscape. FiBANs Data: www.fiban.org/data For Startups: www.fiban.org/apply For Members: www.fiban.org/join In all FiBAN events and contexts, we expect our members and partners to follow our Code of Conduct. Please find it here: https://fiban.org/code-of-conduct/ FiBAN Notification Channel for reporting inappropriate behavior: https://fiban.ilmoituskanava.fi/ and on the footer of our website.
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