eQ Plc, the Finnish asset management and corporate finance group with €13.8 billion of assets under management, has appointed Pertti Vanhanen to expand the group’s business into international markets and to broaden its institutional client base, particularly in private equity and real estate.
In the newly created role of director of international business, he will sit on the executive management team, working from offices in London and Helsinki.
Vanhanen is a highly experienced real estate investor with an extensive track record working across private and public markets. Most recently, he was CEO of the European and Singaporean operations of the Australian REIT, Cromwell Property Group. Prior to that, he held several senior international leadership positions between 2002 and 2020 at Aberdeen, the UK-based asset management and investment company.
The appointment is part of eQ’s 2030 strategy and follows the recent appointments of Kasperi Putkonen, a former London-based Goldman Sachs banker, as director responsible for international sales, and Sara Hedberg Chance, former CEO of Altamar Capital Partners, as a partner to eQ.
Source: eq.fi on 9th March 2026.