Jukka Ylppö
Member of the Board of Directors
power electronics
Orion
Finland
Biography
M. Sc. (Eng.), M. Sc. (Economics) b. 1955 Member of the Board of Directors of Orion Corporation since 2 April 2007, Vice Chairman as of 20 March 2012 Member of the Audit Committee, Remuneration Committee, R&D Committee and the Nomination Committee. Career Jukka Ylppö has done a long career in the product development organisation of ABB Corporation since 1981: 1999– Senior Advisor in the development of control systems for industrial electric drives 1996–1998 Head of the development of a control system for a new thyristor supply unit 1993–1995 Development of new controls for direct-current drives 1991–1992 Automation system development engineer, Västerås, Sweden 1988–1990 Sales engineer of ship automation systems 1986–1987 Project manager of the development of analyzers for paper making processes 1984–1985 Head of the development of control systems for direct-current drives 1982–1983 Product development engineer / power electronics
Research Interest
power electronics