Bo Harald

Bo Harald has since the beginning of 2006 been in charge of the Executive Advisors unit at Tie-toEnator. On December 2007 he was appointed as the Chairman to the EU Expert Group on Electronic Invoicing.

Before that his professional career (1975-2005) focused on developing Nordea’s Electronic Banking an payments operations. He held managerial positions among others in Union Bank of Finland International, Luxembourg, Deputy Managing Director of Union Bank of Finland Sin-gapore, Managing Director of Union Bank of Finland in London, Board Member of Union Bank of Finland, Head of Corporate Sector, Large Corporations and Helsinki District.

After the merger of Union Bank of Finland and Kansallis-Osake-Pankki to form Merita Bank in 1995, he had board responsibility for Western Finland and Payments & Network Banking.

In 1998 Merita Bank and Nordbanken (Sweden) formed MeritaNordbanken (later Nordea) Mr. Harald was appointed Executive Vice President, Payments and Network Banking.

Mr. Harald also served as Chairman of Mobey (Mobile Financial Services Forum) and has held and holds directorships in various companies and associations. He is a frequent lecturer of Inter-net and E-commerce topics and was named by Institutional Investor in 2000-2003 as one of the most influential technologists of the 20th century. He was granted the first award by the Finnish Min-istry of Transport and Communications for promoting the information society in 2004.