Reward Agency

Samuli Sistonen

Samuli has 25 years diverse and international experience from leading businesses and people, developing HR management, and consulting in performance management and rewards. Prior to founding Reward Agency, Samuli worked as the Managing Director of Mercer Finland and before then he was the Country Manager at Hay Group. In both companies he acted as an active member of Nordic leadership teams. Samuli has also worked as a consultant at Deloitte and PwC. At Tapiola Group Samuli was responsible for recruitments, personnel planning and rewards over 20 years back. Samuli also has valuable crisis management experience from the beginning of the millennium, when he served as an officer in Kosovo.

Over the years Samuli has supported hundreds of companies to develop HR, leadership, performance management and rewards. The clients come from different industries and vary from global listed companies to medium and small sized growth companies in Finland and abroad. The counterparts at client side are typically company owners, boards, executive management and HR professionals.

Samuli has written two books about performance management and rewards. Improve results and reward was published by Talentum in 2008. During 2010-2011 Samuli acted as the Chairman of the Board and Executive Remuneration working group of Boardman – a Finnish Board professionals’ organization. As a result of the unique group’s cooperation the book Executive rewards was published in autumn 2011.

Samuli holds a Master’s Degree from Helsinki University majoring in economics with minors in mathematics and statistics. Samuli also holds a Master’s Degree from Helsinki School of Economics majoring in organisation and leadership with minor in accounting.

Ville Kämppi

Ville has been part of Reward Agency team from 2017. Ville is a partner and completes client projects and demanding analysis from Alberta, Canada, where he lives with his family.

Ville has over 15 years of extensive international experience in consulting, business development and diplomacy. Ville has lived and worked abroad for several years and brings with him customer focused consulting knowledge for example from Mercer, Stanton Chase and Finpro. During his career in the diplomatic service Ville served for example at the Finnish permanent representation in Brussels prior to returning to consulting.

Ville has completed Master’s Degree in Economics from University of Helsinki, Bachelor of Science with Honours from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom majoring in economics with minors in statistics and econometrics. Ville completed his high-school at the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales. Ville is a citizen of both Canada and Finland.