Esko Kankainen

Group CFO | Securing Profitability | Private Equity Environment at Eduhouse Oy

Esko Kankainen is an experienced financial executive with a strong background in private equity environments and corporate finance. Currently serving as Group CFO at Eduhouse Oy since May 2025, Kankainen plays a pivotal role in securing profitability for the Nordic Learning-as-a-Service pioneer. Previously held the position of Group CFO at Renoa from September 2022 to April 2025, leading financial strategies for a provider of essential utilities renovation services. Prior roles include Group CFO at Pinja Group, CFO at Coptersafety, and Group CFO at Fonecta Oy, where Kankainen was instrumental in driving digital transformation and profitability turnaround. Kankainen's early career includes significant positions at Volvo Group, Itella, and Nordea Markets, complemented by a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Helsinki.

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Eduhouse Oy

Eduhouse is a Finnish educational organization with a huge hunger to grow and develop. Although we operate in the traditional field, we are anything but a traditional educational entity. The cornerstones of our operations are digitalization and competence development. We have been working on competence development since 2002. Our operations changedtheir heads in 2016 when we moved our operations online and started offering online training instead of traditional training.


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Helsinki, Finland

Employees

51-200

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