Nordic West Office, a subsidiary of Miltton Group, has since 2017 helped Nordic companies navigate and adapt to changes in the operating environment. Nordic West Office was founded in the midst of the upheaval in international politics and economy: Donald Trump had been elected President of the United States, the United Kingdom had left the EU, and Europe had recently faced a refugee crisis.
“We founded Nordic West Office because we considered it important to provide Nordic companies with a strong, international view and understanding of what effects the changes in the operating environment have on the business community. Recent developments in international relations and technological upheavals show that there is a growing demand for such support, and thus Nordic West Office’s operations shall be elevated to the next level. With his extensive understanding and excellent network, Charly Salonius-Pasternak is just the right person to be the CEO of Nordic West Office,” says Charles C. Adams, Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to Finland, one of the founders of Nordic West Office.
”I want to thank Nordic West Office for a unique opportunity to contribute to the resilience of Finnish companies and the society. After seven years I will shift my focus to Europe. I wish the new team the best possible success”, says outgoing CEO Risto E. J. Penttilä.
Miltton Group, the owner of Nordic West Office, has determinedly assembled an exceptionally wide-ranging group of experts in its ranks. At the end of last year, Miltton announced that it is pursuing completely new opportunities in serving its clients by combining human expertise with the opportunities offered by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. At that time, Silo AI’s co-founder Tero Ojanperä joined the company as an investor and a member of the Board of Directors.
“We are in the beginning of a new era in international relations, where rules and practices are being redefined. At the same time, technology has become an increasingly central part of geopolitics. All of this also makes the business environment even more difficult to predict. The new era requires authorities and companies to examine the operating environment more actively from different perspectives,” says Charly Salonius-Pasternak.
Under Salonius-Pasternak’s leadership, Miltton’s and Nordic West Office’s geopolitical expertise will broaden. The opportunities offered by technology and artificial intelligence for the implementation of a wide-ranging and continuous analysis of the operating environment will be brought to the core of the operations. The aim is to bring high-quality geopolitical analysis and monitoring not only to large companies, but also to a wider range of small and medium-sized export-driven Nordic companies that are sensitive to both geopolitics and technopolitics.
