Digia Oyj appoints Ari Rikkilä as Director, Sales and Marketing with effect from May 16, 2017 and Kristiina Simola as CFO effective from August 17, 2017. Rikkilä is joining Digia from Accenture, where he was the Nordic sales lead for cloud services. He has also held leadership positions at other companies, such as Tieto and Also Group, and been CEO of Nervogrid and Efecte Corp.

Rikkilä has extensive experience in harnessing cloud services to promote business development. Erkki Talvela, Digia's current SVP Sales and Marketing, will be leaving the company. Kristiina Simola is joining Digia from her current position as CFO of Ixonos Plc.

Her previous positions have included Deputy Managing Director and Group CFO of Mirasys Oy, Senior Manager and Finance Transformation Business Lead at Deloitte Oy, and CFO at Profit Software Oy.