Jorma Ollila

Jorma Ollila
Ollila in 2013
Born
Jorma Jaakko Ollila

(1950-08-15) 15 August 1950 (age 74)
Seinäjoki, Finland
Alma materUniversity of Helsinki
London School of Economics
Helsinki University of Technology
OccupationBusinessman
Years active1973–present
Titleformer chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, former chairman and former CEO of Nokia Corporation
Term2006–2015
PredecessorAad Jacobs
SuccessorCharles O. Holliday (from May 2015)
Board member ofUPM-Kymmene and Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd.

Jorma Jaakko Ollila (born 15 August 1950) 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.[1][2][3]

For Nokia, he was credited with turning the company into the then world's largest mobile phone maker.[4]

  1. ^ Bray, Chad (30 June 2014). "Former Nokia Chief to Join Perella Weinberg as Advisory Partner". The New York Times. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  2. ^ "Jorma Ollila kertoo kirjassa, kuinka nousu Shellin hallituksen johtoon avasi ovet kuningashuoneisiin". www.iltalehti.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2023-09-13.
  3. ^ "Jorma Ollila". Sitra (in Finnish). Retrieved 2023-09-13.
  4. ^ Christopher Lawton; Ian Edmondson (September 15, 2010). "Nokia Chairman to Step Down in 2012". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved September 15, 2010.