Olli-pekka kallasvuo biography of barack
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Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo | |
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| Born | (1953-07-13) 13 July 1953 (age 71) Lavia, Finland |
| Occupation | Chairman of the Board of Cinia Oy [1] |
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (born 13 July 1953) is the current Chairman of the Board of Cinia Oy[1] 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.[2][3]
Career
[edit]Prior to joining Nokia, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo held a variety of positions with the former Union Bank of Finland.
Kallasvuo's involvement with Nokia began in 1980 when he was appointed as corporate counsel. 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. From 1990 onward Kallasvuo was a member of the group executive board
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Connecting People
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is both passionate and humble. He’s passionate about his company and his people, and humble about himself and his accomplishments. He even jokes that as chief executive he lacks charisma. And yet, Kallasvuo has provided leadership and a guiding hand during nearly every phase of Nokia’s historic transformation from industrial company, producing a varied assortment of goods ranging from electrical cables to bicycle tires and boots, into the mobile telecommunications industry.
During the course of Kallasvuo’s career, Nokia shed its nontelecommunications businesses, invested in forefront technologies, and eventually changed its entire focus to mobile technologies and services. While that course may have been risky, it succeeded in transforming Nokia into the world’s largest mobile telecommunications producer, measured by market share, with more than $50 billion in revenue, 123,000 employees, a global footprint and one of the world’s most respecte
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Moments of Truth: Global Executives Talk About the Challenges That Shaped Them as Leaders
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Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo has been the president and CEO of the telecommunications company Nokia, in Espoo, Finland, since June 2006.
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Franz Humer is the chairman and CEO of the pharmaceutical firm Roche, based in Basel, Switzerland.
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Arthur Gensler founded Gensler—a global architecture, design, planning, and consulting firm—41 years ago. The firm has grown to 2,400 people in 30 offices.
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Sergey Petrov (sapetrov@rolf.ru) is the founder and sole owner of the $2.4 billion Rolf Group, Russia’s largest foreign car importer and distributor.
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Alan Klapmeier cofounded Cirrus Design, a Duluth, Minnesota–based manufacturer of private aircraft, with his brother, Dale, in 1984.
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Duleep Aluwihare is the managing partner at the accounting firm Ernst & Young in Warsaw, Poland. This essay was adapted from one that appeared in the December 2004 edition of Harvard