NordenBladet – According to tax return data for the year 2020, in Finland the most money was made by mobile game creators. Earnings were highest in the case of mobile game company Supercell founder and previous creative director, 45-year-old Mikko Kodisoja – 93.5 million euros. The second highest was 43-year-old Ilkka Paananen from the same company, earning 86.7 million euros.
Behind the men’s income is the selling of the company and the popular mobile games Clash of Clans, Boom Beach and Clash Royale. Currently the majority shareholding belongs to the Chinese company Tencent Holdings.
The third highest earnings belong to the deceased Finnish billionaire Niklas Herlin’s son, heir of the elevator company Kone, 31-year-old Heikki Herlin, whose income was 28.3 million euros.
Jyväskylä’s father of a large family and psychologist Joni Kettunen, who sold to Garmin the physiological analysis service health firm Firstbeat Analytics, earned 27.9 million euros.
A proper profit from selling an IT company was made also by Juha Tommila who sold majority shareholding of the infosystems and financial services company Staria. Staria offers local and international infosystems, solutions for finances, personnel and payroll, and RPA. Vaaka Partners took up Staria’s majority shareholding in 2020.
Head of programming company Supermetrics, Mikael Thuneberg, earned, mainly from dividend income 24.7 million euros.
Founder of Scandinavian IT company Smartly, Kristo Ovaska, sold the company and earned 23.4 million euros. The company Smartly.io that helps advertisers automate their campaigns in Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest, sold majority shareholding to Providence Equity Partners.
Finland’s youngest IT-millionaire Tuomo Riekki, also behind the firm Smartly.io, earned 23.3 million euros.
One of Supercell’s founders, John Derome, earned 17.1 million euros.
Head of software company Admicom, Jyväskylä based 73-year-old millionaire Matti Häll, earned 15.7 million euros. Admicom, listed with Nasdaq First North stock exchange in Helsinki, focusses on ERP-systems and also offers accounting services.
Profit makers TOP 10 was as follows:
Kodisoja Mikko 93 499 919Paananen Ilkka 86 707 807
Herlin Heikki 28 305 626
Kettunen Joni 27 904 330
Thuneberg Mikael 24 730 853
Ovaska Kristo 23 360 264
Riekki Tuomo 23 289 937
Derome John 17 082 848
Häll Matti 15 734 335
Tommila Juha 14 642 693
The list may not be exhaustive, since more than 2000 Finns have requested their names to be removed from public tax information materials that are communicated to the media.
Source: NordenBladet.fi