Jorma Ollila | |
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Born | Jorma Jaakko Ollila 15 August 1950 Seinäjoki, Finland |
Alma mater | University of Helsinki London School of Economics Helsinki University of Technology |
Occupation | Businessman |
Years active | 1973–present |
Title | former chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, former chairman and former CEO of Nokia Corporation |
Term | 2006–2015 |
Predecessor | Aad Jacobs |
Successor | Charles O. Holliday (from May 2015) |
Board member of | UPM-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]