10197 S Stephen Place
Highlands Ranch,
CO 80130
Mobile: (303) 478-1028
Email: jmakikalli@comcast.net
Website: www.finland.org
Juha Mäkikalli has been serving as the Honorary Consul of Finland in the State of Colorado since May 2010. He is a past Dean of the Colorado Consular Corps and currently a Trustee of the Finlandia Foundation of Colorado.
Born and raised in Finland, Juha’s first U.S. experience was an AFS high school exchange year in Sacramento, California. He majored in international marketing and received a Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration degree from Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland, in 1993.
After obtaining account management and sales experience working with internationally operating Finnish companies, Juha relocated to Colorado in 2000 to establish a U.S. subsidiary for Novo Group plc, a Finnish information technology company. Since 2006, he has been working as a business development executive and project/program manager for Boeing Digital Solutions Inc. a.k.a. Jeppesen, a subsidiary of the Boeing Company.