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.




Apply to the board by filling out this form.

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
  • Projects throughout the year

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