Sauli Brander has been appointed as SVP, Customership and a member of the management team at Metsä Group’s Wood Supply and Forest Services as of 1 April 2026. He will be responsible for the strategy process of Wood Supply and Forest Services, the planning of wood procurement, trade with industrial customers, international wood procurement and reception at mills. Brander has a long and varied experience in management tasks in UPM’s wood sourcing organisation.
Yrjö Perälä, who has been working as SVP, Customership since 2018, will transfer to the position of part-time project director as of 1 April 2026. He has announced that he will retire in summer 2027. In the project director’s position, Perälä will be responsible for advancing strategic projects defined by EVP, Wood Supply and Forest Services.
Brander and Perälä will report to Juha Jumppanen, Metsä Group’s EVP, Wood Supply and Forest Services.
For further information, please contact:
Juha Jumppanen, EVP, Metsä Group Wood Supply and Forest Services, tel. +358 50 384 4808
Juha Laine, SVP, Marketing and Communications, Metsä Group Wood Supply and Forest services, tel. +358 50 346 0350
Metsä Group’s Wood Supply and Forest Services
metsagroup.com/metsaforest
Metsä Forest provides and develops services for the members of Metsä Group’s parent company, Metsäliitto Cooperative. The company procures all the wood used by Metsä Group’s production units. The cooperative consists of more than 90,000 forest owners, who own about half of Finland’s privately owned forests. We are committed to regenerative forestry to measurably strengthen the state of forest nature. We promote a culture of diversity, equality and inclusion.
In 2024, our sales totalled EUR 2.4 billion, and we have around 700 employees. The sales of the whole Metsä Group were EUR 5,7 billion.
