Curriculum Vitae · Business & ICT Leadership

Micke Rantanen

Vice President, DNA Oyj · Executive MBA 2026

Micke Rantanen ++++

I am a business leader and ICT change driver. I have led development organizations, project portfolios and service portfolios as a single coherent whole. My strength is forward-driving, positive momentum where service delivery, productization and financial ownership meet: I set a clear direction, give people the room to execute, and keep promises on the numbers.

Experience

Business Lead, B2B Cloud Business

2025 – present

DNA Oyj · job rotation

  • Building a new cloud business: Sovereign Cloud, Managed Public Cloud and internal hosting services — service concepts, pricing and productization.
  • Responsible for defining the business model, technology choices and partner network for a new service area.
Read more about the rotation

This rotation runs alongside the Aalto EE Executive MBA programme as part of a broader career development path, combining business acumen with deep cloud technology expertise to build a new line of business for DNA.

Vice President, Common Services & Development Platforms & ITSM

09/2022 – 2025

DNA Oyj

  • Led a 30+ person development organization through four direct reports, with a budget of over €10M.
  • Raised service delivery maturity through automation — brought ZeroTouch and DevSecOps practices into shared services and development platforms.
  • Ran RFI/RFP tenders and contract negotiations for key supplier relationships.

Head of Identity and Access Management & ERP

10/2018 – 09/2022

DNA Oyj

  • Responsible for leading two specialist units and for the goals and finances of the IAM and ERP development programmes.
  • Renewed the IAM architecture and SSO solutions together with the partner network.

System Specialist, Team Lead

10/2013 – 10/2018

DNA Oyj

  • Technical architecture for e-commerce payments and TUPAS authentication; led the IAM and SSO renewal as team lead.

Previously: System Specialist, PlusTV — BSS & web development, 12/2012–10/2013

Education

Executive MBA

Aalto EE · graduating 12/2026

Specialist Vocational Qualification in Management

Salpaus · 2016–2017

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

Arcada · 2007–2012

2nd Lieutenant

Finnish Defence Forces, Reserve Officer School · 2006–2007

Skills

Change Management P&L / Budget Responsibility RFI/RFP Contract Negotiations Service Delivery & ITSM Cloud Services Automation & ZeroTouch DevOps IAM

Languages

Swedish
native
Finnish
fluent
English
fluent