Kaisu Leppänen
Director and Team Leader for Bioeconomy, M.Sc. (Chem.)
+358 44 288 4824Kaisu is working as a Director at Spinverse. She leads Spinverse's Bioeconomy team and helps companies and consortia with their R&D&I needs, including for example building and scoping collaborative projects, finding partners, preparing public funding applications, and developing growth and innovation strategies.
Kaisu has wide experience from planning and managing different types of R&D&I activities, ranging from single company projects to large scale multi-party innovation programs and ecosystems. She works with both growth-seeking SMEs and large corporations in the fields of e.g. bioeconomy, circular economy, materials, and renewable energy. She is also an experienced facilitator of public-private-partnership activities.
Kaisu holds a M.Sc. degree in analytical chemistry from University of Helsinki and has also studied Organizations and Management at Aalto University School of Economics. From her previous work as a researcher at the Finnish Forest Research Institute she has hands-on experience in the research and development of new biorefinery processes and bio-based products.
In her spare time, Kaisu enjoys social dancing (especially salsa and other Afro-Latin dances), cycling, travelling, as well as good food and wine.