HELSINKI: Nokia announced yesterday the appointment of Rajeev Suri (pictured) as chief executive officer.
The 46-year-old, originally from India, has been at Nokia since 1995, and most recently headed up Nokia Solutions and Networks, a joint venture with Siemens now fully-owned by the Finnish group. Following the sale of Nokia’s once iconic handset operations to US software giant Microsoft on Friday, its telecom networks business now represent 90 percent of the group’s operations.
The group said that Suri had overseen an increase in the value of the telecom networks business to the tune of about €8bn euros.
An electronic engineering graduate from Manipal Institute of Technology, Suri previously held management positions at ICL in India and the construction firm Churchgate Group in Nigeria. AFP
