PEKKA A. IMMONEN
By : (C.R.)
PEKKA A. IMMONEN, 41, will move to New York on May 15 to take up the position of Finnair's director of sales for the United States. Immonen, who became Finnair's director of sales for Central and Eastern Europe last November, has been in Poland since 1997 and with Finnair since 1977. His roles at the company have included working on loading docks at Helsinki's Vantaa Airport, and as a traffic officer at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo and Moscow's Sheremetyevo-2 airports. Immonen earned a degree in economics from Moscow State University in 1984 and a technical degree in business from the Helsinki Polytechnic Institute in 1993. He said he speaks Finnish, English, Swedish, Russian and a little Polish. He also said his hobbies include Aikido and riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
