About

Maija Vartiainen joined IF P&C Insurance Company in August 2010 after gaining over 11 and half years of experience as attorney at law at Dittmar & Indredius. Drawing on her experiences, Vartiainen frequently leads cross-functional teams around various projects and brings a service-minded approach by encouraging her team to proactively understand the company business and drop unnecessary legalese. Due to the data intensive business model of insurance companies, upcoming European data protection legislation is set to have a huge effect on the entire industry. Recognised for her expertise, over the past two years Vartiainen has been heavily involved with the legislative work through the Federation of Financial Services in Finland, and participated in the legal coordination of upcoming implementation within the company at the Nordic level. She says ‘selling our ideas, getting the leaders’ input and acceptance, as well as huge awareness and training effort directed for all employees, have been a great challenge but also extremely rewarding’.