Meet the Kyrö people
Over the years Kyrö has grown to a distillery that is known worldwide. Five guys with a dream turned into a supersized family. Get to know the Kyrö people.
Marketing & Sales
Our meditating CEO prefers the office to remote work and still remembers small talk from the year he spent in Chicago spreading rye.
Marketing and managing the visitor centre, and when she’s not doing that she just keeps dancing. Reija loves to travel and loves her kiddo; the curious and open-minded little human being we could all learn from.
Matti is a man of many talents. He has been spotted playing the piano, doing photography with a drone and knowing surprisingly much about skiis. Matti is our brand police and the go to- visual person.
Our marketing warehouse and customer service coordinator claims not to be a morning person but works like one. Uses every possible hour dreaming about a cottage by the ocean.
Lives in a baby bubble for now.
German Team
This Berlin superstar likes salt and Italy: together and separate. The rest she'll tell you over a negroni. On her days off, she gets really into different bottled waters and new marketing ideas.
Spreads the rye in Germany and drives a Volvo. Also the one we like to send to the kitchen and see magic happen.
UK Team
Moved to the UK to talk about Arsenal and rye. What will happen with the Diet Coke addiction remains to be seen.
If it was up to her she would spend eternity travelling around all corners of the world. When not dreaming of that, she works with all things UK Brand Management, everything from changing buttons on a page to working on marketing activities and events.
Despite the accent he's actually from Vancouver, hence the love for ice skating and pizza eating. UK Partner Manager enjoyes a tasty Sazerac and can't believe anyone who hasn't seen the Toxicity music video.
Visitor center
Watches over the premises and tells never-ending stories about (Iso)Kyrö history to everyone who wanders his way.
Sheep farmer and visitor center manager who keeps leaving his keys in places he forgets about. Besides cocktails, specialises in all things made out of sourdough.
Grandma's pancakes with real butter and sugar and the joy of finding wild strawberries started the story. Our head chef makes taste journeys at Kyrö unforgettable.
As a kid she was always on the baseball field. Now she's in the kitchen. When she's not cooking, she keeps herself busy travelling through Google Maps.
This master chef remembers the trips she made as a kid to the beach and the sandwiches they ate after swimming. She still loves food but rather than bread she now enjoyes a tasty piece of entrecôte.
The never-ending smile left her hometown of Isokyrö only to return with more stories to tell and more cocktails to prepare. Takes good care of the barrel owners.
When she's not hosting distillery tours, she enjoys Hogwarts spiced with magical tattoo ideas and ice cream bowls.
Tour host who got very excited about Disney+ coming to Finland. Loves sushi, iced coffee and her cat.
She believes fighting makes sense when you do it in Spanish, and mornings are worth it when you can sleep. Maybe that's why she works the nights behind the bar.
Every tour she hosts, the safety is guaranteed. Mainly because she's a paramedic.
From running barefoot in Kilimanjaro to running tours around a rye distillery in Isokyrö. The only one of us who can tell the story of Kyrö in Estonian.
Whisky team
Before becoming the head distiller for a Finnish whisky distillery, this (crazy) scientist was developing biofuels and brewing beer.
Prefers whisky smoky and knows how to replace problems with solutions. Leads the whisky team with loads of love.
Besides whisky distilling and creating new drinks, masters Swedish dialect closest to ancient language and surely after meeting him, you'll know where he's from.
Surprisingly talkative introvert who says he can distill whisky and play bass at the same time, but no one has seen that happen yet.
This whisky distiller spends his summers on a cottage and winters with his cat. Dearest memories include time spent with grandma doing lottery and eating pancakes, all in one night.
ABW (all but whisky) team
Gin blender who likes sauna, loves electronic music and laughs at really bad jokes. Better known as “the sauce guy”.
Former aircraft mechanic is a talent on the baseball field, as well as in gin distilling.
His favourite city is Madrid due to good weather, great wines and amazing food. Yet he moved to Isokyrö. Contract says Geiri does research and development. We think he’s also really good at making us all happy.
Bottling, Logistics & Production
In this case it takes one to tango and Jani is the one singing it while managing the Kyrö production.
Kyrö bottles would get lost in translation without our head of logistics team – the one with the Fernet-Branca coin.
Dreams about having another Hanami picnic in Tokyo one day. In charge of sending the bottles out to the world. Fan of whisky, drinks it neat.
Gardening enthusiast who keeps packing materials strictly in order and spices Isokyrö with her Swedish flavour.
As a kid, this master of logistics and bottling used to drive around in a truck with her dad listening to Swedish hits. Nowadays loves to wake up early and admits her favourite drink is milk.
Finance & people
Financial director who comes down the hills freeriding. Loves mushrooming and art galleries.
Remembers more than is humanly possible even for a finance manager. Spends most of her free time renovating a 100-year-old house by the Kyrö river.