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I was working in IT in the private sector, and there was an opening to lead the consolidation of state IT services in the State Treasury of Finland. They wanted to build up a department to centrally provide to the public sector infrastructure-level services like network, email, collaboration, data center services.

So, I applied for that role, and I got it. I worked there for five years.

By 2014, there was a situation building up in the Ministry of Finance that the government CIO, my predecessor, was offered some new responsibilities. The heads of the ministry wanted to make a change, and I was asked if I could come in to cover the GCIO role for half a year, because so long appointment could be done just by the decision of the minister. Once I accepted, I was not sure I would not be in this position necessarily for longer.