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Hans-Mikael Helenius

CEO @ Kalaneuvos 🐟 & Nordic Trout 🐟 🇫🇮🇸🇪 | Turnaround, M&A & Scale-Up for PE-backed, listed and family owners | Board Chair | Relentless for transparency and structure with discipline

📍 Tampere, West and Inner Finland, Finland🔄 Updated November 2026💼 4 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019
Angel investor🌍 Finland
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2023
Interim Managing Director
Mar 2023
Nordic Trout is the largest farmer of rainbow trout in Finland and Sweden. Our main products are fresh gutted rainbow trout, sea trout and rainbow trout roe, ‘red caviar’. Rainbow trout roe is a valued and tasty delicacy, the roe season is between November and January. We have 32 production facilities in Mainland Finland, Aland and Sweden. Annual production is approx. 10 million kilos of rainbow trout. Company turnover was €52 million in 2017. Nordic Trout is the only fish farming company in Finland that is able to offer fresh rainbow trout to wholesalers, commerce and further processing all year round.
late stageFisheries
2021
Managing Director
Oct 2021
Kalaneuvos Oy, formerly known as V. Hukkanen Oy, has operated in fish industry since 1975 and is nowadays one of the biggest operators in the Finnish market. Our main values are high quality, being on the cutting edge of the industry, continuing as a family-run business and being both environmentally and socially responsible. These values play an important role in our everyday work. We process, import, export, sell and wholesale fish to private, retail and wholesale customers as well as businesses operating in the convenience food industry, the HoReCa sector and other operators in both domestic and international markets. Kalaneuvos Oy’s product selection includes fresh, smoked, cold smoked, frozen, slightly salted and marinated products. We provide fish products in several variants – caviar, whole fish, fillets, slices, portions, cubes, boneless and skinless fish. We have the ISO 9001 Quality Management System and the FSSC 22000 Food Safety System Certification, which provide a framework for effectively managing our organisation’s quality and food safety responsibilities. We also have the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System. Our fish farming group is specialised in smolt production and trout farming. The Group has 30 fish farming plants in Finland and Sweden. Our fish farms can supply fresh trout to wholesalers and further processors throughout the year. Kalaneuvos Oy has always invested in modern production lines and well-being at work. We employ over 230 people, and the total revenue amounted to over EUR 100 million. The total combined annual volume of fish products processed by the Group is over 20 000 tons. Our northern location, long traditions and carefully selected raw materials guarantee great quality and taste for our products. We look forward to providing high-quality, fresh and frozen Nordic fish products to the global markets.
2019
Partner
Dec 2019
Oivaltava hallitus on yrityksen kilpailutekijä. Yhdessä valtakunnallisesti toimivan Hallituspartnerit-verkoston kanssa rakennamme Suomea, jossa on menestyvä ja kasvava pk-yrityskenttä. Hallituspartnerit-verkoston tarkoitus on elinkeinoelämän kilpailukyvyn vahvistaminen erityisesti pk-yritysten hallitustyöskentelyä kehittämällä.
ALSO Cloud Solutions Oy
Managing Director
Jan 2019
Board Member
2019
Kaffa muuttaa kahvikulttuuria Suomessa ja kahvikauppaa maailmalla. Kaffa käy tutkimassa jokaisen pavun alkuperän paikan päällä ja paahtaa tarkoin valitut pavut käsin Helsingin Punavuoressa. Laatu, kestävä kehitys ja läpinäkyvyys ovat Kaffan toiminnan ydin.
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