Jaakko Veikko Emanuel Pöyry (August 6, 1924 in

Sodankylä Sodankylä (; sme, Soađegilli ; smn, Suáđigil; sms, Suäʹđjel) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the region of Lapland, and lies at the northern end of Highway 5 ( E63) and along Highway 4 ( E75). The Kitinen River flows nea ...

– September 8, 2006 in

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) was a

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industrialist. He founded

Pöyry Pöyry PLC ( fi, Pöyry Oyj), which merged in 2019 with Swedish company ÅF into AFRY, was an international consulting and engineering firm that served clients globally across the energy and industrial sectors and provided local engineering ser ...

( OMX: POY1V) and personally oversaw its growth from a small

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office to a global consulting and engineering firm focusing on the energy,

forest industry The wood industry or timber industry (sometimes lumber industry -- when referring mainly to sawed boards) is the industry concerned with forestry, logging, timber trade, and the production of primary forest products and wood products (e.g. furn ...

and infrastructure and environment sectors. It changed its name from Jaakko Pöyry Group in 2006. The company is headquartered in

Vantaa Vantaa (; sv, Vanda, ) is a city and municipality in Finland. It is part of the inner core of the Finnish Capital Region along with Helsinki, Espoo, and Kauniainen. With a population of (), Vantaa is the fourth most populated city in Finland ...

, Finland.

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20th-century Finnish businesspeople People from Sodankylä 1924 births 2006 deaths {{Finland-bio-stub