Board of Aalto BT ry

Get to know the board roles and the amazing volunteers behind them. A new board is elected for each calendar year and any member can run. Senior Advisor is exceptionally chosen from the old board.




Chairperson

Topias Lahikainen

Responsible for:

  • Action plan (beginning of the year) and action report (end of the year)
  • Applying for grants
  • Creating agendas and leading meetings
  • Strategy and long-term future
  • External relations to KY, AYY, and other associations
  • Ensuring smooth operations and timeliness
  • Planning board’s own events

Vice Chairperson

Niklas Roininen

Responsible for:

  • Supporting Chair and stepping up when Chair is unavailable
  • Merch and board shirts
  • Alumni affairs
  • Volunteers

Treasurer

Janne Haataja

Responsible for:

  • Budgeting and accounting
  • Invoicing companies and students
  • Collecting receipts
  • Financial reporting

Corporate Relations

Iivari Piiponniemi

Responsible for:

  • Answering to company enquiries about partnerships
  • Updating company contracts
  • Planning collaboration with partners
  • Contacting new companies for new partnerships and sponsorships for projects

Corporate Relations

Jaakko Martikainen

Responsible for:

  • Answering to company enquiries about partnerships
  • Updating company contracts
  • Planning collaboration with partners
  • Contacting new companies for new partnerships and sponsorships for projects

Corporate Communications

Dani Abibo

Responsible for:

  • Answering to company enquiries about excursions, ads and job ads
  • Creating events and handling sign-ups for excursions
  • Posting ads and job ads to BT’s channels

Academic Relations

Jakke Liikanen

Responsible for:

  • Meeting faculty regularly
  • Communicating with faculty on current academic affairs
  • Negotiating financial support from faculty for events
  • Organising Faculty Coffees together with faculty
  • Creating Telegram-chats for courses
  • Contacting faculty and professors with issues of teaching

Event Coordinator

Otto Lehto

Responsible for:

  • Organising different kinds of traditional and new events for BT
  • Planning execution and leading taskforces for events
  • Collaborating with stakeholders for events

Projects

Pauliina Savolainen

Responsible for:

  • Organizing Annual Ball
  • Organizing Study Trip

Communications

Victor Peterson

Responsible for:

  • Communicating current news and announcements to BT’s channels
  • Creating events, sign-ups and contacting participants
  • Taking care of BT’s social media presence together with AD
  • Keeping website up to date

Brand Manager

Yến Phạm

Responsible for:

  • Creating visuals and templates for events, posts, and channels
  • Coordinating our board members’ official photoshoot(s)
  • Managing the design of overall badges, as well as other promotional items and materials for our events
  • Overseeing the re-branding process from Aalto ISM to Aalto BT

Senior Advisor

Aleksanteri Roiha

Responsible for:

  • Transferring knowledge from the last year’s board
  • Advising on BT’s operations e.g. how an event was organised last year
  • Supporting other roles when necessary