Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo | |
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| Born | July 13, 1953 |
| Occupation(s) | President and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia Corporation, Chairman of Nokia Siemens Networks |
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (born in Lavia, Finland on July 13, 1953) is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia Corporation and Chairman of Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture between Nokia and Siemens AG.
Career
Kallasvuo joined Nokia in 1980 as Corporate Counsel, and has held roles of increasing responsibility since that time. In 1987 he was appointed Assistant Vice President, Legal Department, and in 1988 he was named Assistant Vice President, Finance. In 1990 he was promoted to Senior Vice President, Finance.
In 1992, Kallasvuo was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In 1997-1998 he served as Corporate Executive Vice President, Nokia United States, being responsible for all Nokia's business operations in the US. He returned to the position of Chief Financial Officer at the beginning of 1999, the position he had held prior to moving to the United States. From 2004–2005 Kallasvuo was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Phones. On October 1, 2005 he was named President and COO before his appointment to the current position, Chief Executive Officer on June 1, 2006.
Trivia
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- Kallasvuo has been a member of the Group Executive Board of Nokia since 1990.
- Prior to joining Nokia, he held a variety of positions with the Union Bank of Finland.
- Kallasvuo serves on the board of EMC Corporation, the world-leading American information storage and management company.
- He holds a master's degree in law from the University of Helsinki.
- In his spare time, he enjoys golf, tennis, reading about political history, and watching Bollywood movies.
- His unofficial nickname in the media is "OPK"
- His favourite website is; "Wikipedia [the user-generated online encyclopedia]. I love the way it aggregates information from different people."[1]
References
- KALLASVUO Olli-Pekka International Who's Who. accessed September 4, 2006.