Leena Niemisto

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Ms. Leena Niemistö serves as Board Member at Nightingale Health. Dr. Niemisto is an Angel Investor. She served as Chairman at CardioSignal. She also serves as Board Member at Nightingale. She holds a Specialist in Physiotherapy degree from the University of Helsinki, Finland. She was the CEO and main owner of Helsinki-based medical center Dextra until 2012, after which she was Vice-CEO of Pihlajalinna and CEO of Dextra up to 2016. She has served as a Board member in several major Finnish corporations, including teleoperator Elisa, retailer Stockmann, Pihlajalinna and health food producer Raisio Group. In 2017 Talouselämä magazine rated her as the second most influential woman in Finnish business life. Dr. Leena Niemistö is a health care professional with 30 years of clinical and leadership experience. She holds MD and PhD from Helsinki University and has specialised in physical and rehabilitation medicine. She holds also Dr. Admin. Sc. hc from Vaasa University. She worked as a CEO in a private healthcare company Dextra (yrs 2003-2016) and a deputy CEO in a social and healthcare company Pihlajalinna (yrs 2013-2016). Currently she is a board member in several publicly listed companies (Stockmann, Pihlajalinna, Raisio, Nexstim, Nightingale Health), startups, organizations and foundations. She is also an active investor in several health-tech growth companies.