Sakari Ahdekivi has been appointed chief financial officer and member of the executive management team at Ahlstrom, a global high performance fiber-based  materials company. He will join Ahlstrom on February 1, 2014.

Prior to Ahlstrom, Ahdekivi was managing firector at Tamro Finland and Baltics. He has also held CFO positions at Tamro, YIT, and Huhtamäki, and various financial controlling positions at ABB.