25 Nokia people

Esko Tapani Aho is a Finnish politician who was Prime Minister of Finland from 1991 to 1995.

Marko Ahtisaari is a Finnish technology entrepreneur and musician. Ahtisaari has been CEO and co-founder of two technology companies: Dopplr and Sync Project. After the acquisition of Dopplr, Ahtisaari was executive vice president of Design at Nokia and later a Director's Fellow at the MIT Media Lab. He is a composer, bassist and singer in the band Construction.

Matti Juhani Alahuhta was the President & CEO of KONE Corporation (2005–2014). Earlier he worked 26 years at Nokia Corporation and was Member of Nokia's Executive Board from 1993 to 2004. He is Chairman of the Board of DevCo Partners Oy. He is also Member of the Board of Directors of Kone Corporation (2003-) and AB Volvo (2014-).

N. Asokan is a Professor of Computer Science and the David R. Cheriton Chair in Software Systems at the University of Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University.

Stephen Elop is a Canadian businessman who most recently worked at Australian telecom company Telstra from April 2016. In the past he had worked for Nokia as the first non-Finnish CEO and later as Executive Vice President, Devices & Services, as well as the head of the Microsoft Business Division, as the COO of Juniper Networks, as the president of worldwide field operations at Adobe Systems, in several senior positions in Macromedia and as the CIO at Boston Chicken.

Rich Green is an American software engineer and business executive.

Bengt Robert Holmström is a Finnish economist who is currently Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Together with Oliver Hart, he received the Central Bank of Sweden Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016.

Knut Fredrik Idestam was a Finnish mining engineer and businessman, best known as a founder of Nokia.

Henning Kagermann is a German physicist and businessman. He was the former chairman of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer of SAP AG.

Kari Antero Oswald Kairamo, titled Vuorineuvos, was a Chairman and CEO of Nokia Corporation and a significant and popular person in the industry, who was also actively involved in Finland's foreign policy.

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo chaired the committee for World Design Capital Helsinki 2012, and is the former Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Nokia, as well as a former board member of Nokia Siemens Networks.

Lauri Jaakko Kivekäs, titled Vuorineuvos, was a Finnish businessman. He served as Minister of Trade and Industry from 1957 to 1958. He was the former Chairman of Confederation of Finnish Industries and the first Chairman of Nokia Corporation after the 1967 merger of the three Finnish companies Nokia Company, Finnish Rubber Works and Finnish Cable Works. He remained Nokia Chairman until 1977 when he was replaced by Björn Westerlund.

Lauri Simo Kivinen is the former CEO of the Finnish Broadcasting Company. He had previously held numerous management positions at Nokia and at Nokia Siemens Networks. Overall, Kivinen has spent more than twenty years within the telecommunications industry.

Pekka Lundmark is a Finnish business executive and current President and CEO of Nokia. Previously, he had served as CEO of Fortum, a Finnish state-owned energy company, from 2015 to July 2020.

Mary T. McDowell is an American technology executive and CEO of Mitel, a global business communications provider. Prior to that, McDowell served as CEO for Polycom from 2016 until its sale to Plantronics in 2018. While at Polycom, she led a strategic pivot to open ecosystems and bought Obihai to strengthen the company’s phone and cloud products. She serves on the boards of Autodesk and Informa plc.

Leopold (Leo) Henrik Stanislaus Mechelin was a Finnish politician, professor, liberal reformer and businessman. A leading defender of the autonomy of the Grand Duchy of Finland, and of the rights of women and minorities, Mechelin's 1905–1908 government ("Mechelin's Senate") made Finland the first nation in the world with the universal right to vote and to be elected. During his period in office the freedom of expression, the press, and of assembly were introduced.

Jorma Jaakko Ollila is a Finnish businessman who was chairman of Royal Dutch Shell from 1 June 2006 to May 2015, and at Nokia Corporation chairman from 1999 to 2012 and CEO from 1992 to 2006. He has been a director of Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd. since 1996 and UPM-Kymmene since 1997, and an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg Partners, a New York-based boutique investment bank founded by Joseph R. Perella and Peter Weinberg in 2006.

Paavo Rantanen is a Finnish former Foreign Ministry official, who was briefly the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Dame Marjorie Morris Scardino,, FRSA is an American-born British business executive. She is the former CEO of Pearson PLC. Scardino became a trustee of Oxfam during her tenure at Pearson. She has been criticized by Private Eye magazine because, while Oxfam campaigns against corporate tax avoidance as part of the IF Coalition, Pearson was "a prolific tax haven user...routing hundreds of millions of pounds through an elaborate series of Luxembourg companies to avoid tax". She became the first female Chief Executive of a FTSE 100 company when she was appointed CEO of Pearson in 1997. She is also a non-executive director of Nokia and former CEO of the Economist Group. During her time at Pearson, Pearson's profits tripled, to a record £942m. In December 2013, she joined the board of Twitter as its first female director, after a controversy involving a lack of diversity on the Twitter board.

Risto Kalevi Siilasmaa is a Finnish businessperson and the chairman, founder and former CEO of F-Secure Corporation, an anti-virus and computer security software company based in Helsinki, Finland. He is also the biggest shareholder of F-Secure, owning around 40% of the company. He was chairman of Nokia from 2012 to 2020.

Rajeev Suri is a Singaporean business executive and was appointed as CEO of Inmarsat in February 2021. He was previously the CEO of Nokia until 31 July 2020. Before being appointed Nokia's CEO in May 2014, he was the CEO of Nokia Solutions and Networks from 2009 and held various positions within Nokia since 1995. Suri became the CEO of Nokia when the sale of Nokia's phone division to Microsoft Mobile was completed, replacing Stephen Elop. He is an alumnus of the Manipal Institute of Technology, Karnataka state of India.

Carl Mikael Augustinus ”Mika” Tiivola was a Finnish businessman. He was the former CEO of the former Finnish bank Union Bank of Finland. He was the Chairman of Nokia Corporation when SYP was its largest owner in the 1980s.

Iiro Viinanen is a Finnish politician. Viinanen graduated as an engineer from a Tampere institute in 1967 and as a M.Sc. Tech. from Helsinki University of Technology in 1974. He was a Member of the Finnish Parliament from 1983 to 1996. His political party was National Coalition Party. He served as the Minister of Finance from 1991 to 1996.

Johan Verner Weckman was a wrestler, who is the first Finnish Olympic gold medalist.

Björn Georg Wilhelm Westerlund, titled Vuorineuvos, was a Finnish businessman and a short-time minister in the government of Finland. He was the former and first President and CEO of Nokia Corporation that was formed in a 1967 merger between the three Finnish companies Nokia Company, Finnish Rubber Works and Kaapelitehdas. He was the CEO until his retirement in 1977. He remained Chairman of the Board until 1979.