Press Release: Nokia announces executive changes; renews Leadership Team
Final part of the individual press releases I think. This should explain a little bit more about the reshuffling going on at Nokia’s leadership team.
As a summary from the last post.
- Juha Putkiranta as executive vice president of Operations;
- Timo Toikkanen as executive vice president of Mobile Phones;
- Chris Weber as executive vice president of Sales and Marketing;
- Tuula Rytila as senior vice president of Marketing and Chief Marketing Officer;
- Susan Sheehan as senior vice president of Communications.
- Putkiranta, Toikkanen and Weber will join the Nokia Leadership Team effective July 1, 2012.
- Jerri DeVard steps down as chief marketing officer;
- Mary McDowell steps down as executive vice president of Mobile Phones; and
- Niklas Savander steps down as executive vice president of Markets.
- DeVard, McDowell and Savander will all continue in advisory roles through the transition of their roles; however, they step down from the Nokia Leadership Team effective June 30, 2012.
Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced that it has appointed Juha Putkiranta as executive vice president of operations; Timo Toikkanen as executive vice president of Mobile Phones, Chris Weber as executive vice president of sales and marketing; Tuula Rytila as senior vice president and chief marketing officer; and Susan Sheehan as senior vice president of communications. Putkiranta, Toikkanen and Weber also will join the Nokia Leadership Team effective July 1, 2012.
Formerly, Putkiranta was senior vice president, supply chain; Weber was senior vice president Markets, Americas, and Toikkanen was vice president, business development, programs and special projects.
Rytila, who will report to Weber, was formerly senior vice president of portfolio and business management, and Sheehan, who reports to Elop, was vice president of communications.
Nokia also announced the following executives are stepping down from the Nokia Leadership Team effective June 30, 2012 to pursue other opportunities outside of Nokia: Jerri DeVard, executive vice president and chief marketing officer; Mary McDowell, executive vice president of Mobile Phones; and Niklas Savander, executive vice president of Markets.
DeVard, who joined the company in January 2011, led Nokia’s marketing and brand management and served as a member of the Nokia Leadership Team.
McDowell has held a number of senior management positions at Nokia, including serving on the NAVTEQ board of directors, and most recently led Nokia’s global mobile phones business unit. She has served as a member of the Nokia Leadership Team since joining the company in 2004.
Since 1997, Savander has held a number of senior management positions at Nokia and Nokia Networks, including serving on the NAVTEQ Board of Directors and the Nokia Siemens Networks Board of Directors. Most recently, Savander led Nokia’s sales, marketing, supply chain, manufacturing operations and information technology teams and has served as a member of the Nokia Leadership team since 2006. Savander also will step down from the Nokia Siemens Network Board of Directors, effective June 30, 2012.
DeVard, McDowell and Savander will serve as senior advisors to Nokia through the transition of their roles.
Quotes
“Juha has demonstrated exceptionally strong leadership in leading our supply chain operations,” said Stephen Elop. “His breadth of experience at Nokia will help with our focus.”
“Timo is well known as an engaging leader with valuable business acumen and keen insights into delivering customer satisfaction,” said Stephen Elop. “These attributes will be key as we progress through our transformation.”
“Chris has made tremendous strides in kick starting our re-entry into the US and his track record of driving results will serve Nokia well,” said Stephen Elop.
“Tuula is widely known at Nokia for her versatility, creativity and focus on results,” said Stephen Elop. “She has played an instrumental role in Lumia product marketing and strategy, which will be valuable moving forward.”
“Susan brings a breadth of experience in the technology industry to her new role,” said Stephen Elop. “Her experience in consumer, employee and financial communications will serve us well through this transition.”
“Jerri has made a positive impact on Nokia’s advertising, marketing and brand efforts. Our marketing has made great strides under her leadership,” said Stephen Elop. “I will particularly miss the fresh insight and new energy that Jerri injected into the Nokia brand.”
“Mary’s leadership has been instrumental in our efforts to connect the next billion people to the Internet through innovation in new devices and services,” said Stephen Elop. “Under her direction, Nokia has brought new opportunities to consumers throughout growth markets and contributed strongly to Nokia’s business. I will miss the value she has brought to Nokia.”
“During his 16-year Nokia career, Niklas has successfully supported our growth and transformation through leadership roles in groups ranging from services to, most recently, sales, marketing, supply chain and IT,” said Stephen Elop. “Niklas has been a valued partner to me during my tenure at Nokia and his many ongoing contributions will be missed.”
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2 years ago, I never would have imagined that nokia’s strategy would consist of featurephones and then all windows phones. Wow.
Goodluck with that. Can’t the people at nokia board or something investigate elop and his advisor’s decisions?
People at Nokia board brought in Elop and supported him all the way, the dissonant tones were shut down swiftly, what gives you the idea that the BoD would want to investigate Elop? They’d have to investigate themselves first…
as usual +++++++1
Statcounter says windows has reached over 10% of mobile web traffic. Perhaps a 40% plus market share…per poweruser.
twig, you’re our fellow commenter and we love you very much. But you’re living in a world of make-believe. With flowers and bells and leprechauns, and magic frogs with funny little hats.
My world is filled with references, news facts, numbers and years of successful business experience. The leprechauns sold me their gold for $350 and they thought it was a good deal so we had frog legs for dinner.
Sorry, in Finland. In global its 3-4 percent and rising. Possible 8-10 by year end. I love my Nokia 900. I would not go back to an Android again. I talked to 2 ATT stores and they said the one penny androids have been selling but then a couple months later the young customer brings it back and pays off his contract. The need for a windows pay go or 311 pay go is great in the U.S. The older customers are heavy lumia buyers who can pay the contracts and remember the quality and name.
congrats, unfortunately your Finish Nokia is no more, the movements you are seeing are just the signaling of what is to come soon real soon… Hostile take over or simple buy from microsoft…
Nokia the global worldwide brand from Finland is dead toast kaput finito…
So you are saying now you never were a Nokia user? Noooo it can’t be. LOL.
Hey, Microsoft just announced a major announcement for Monday.
“So you are saying now you never were a Nokia user” you are not very smart are you??? were in the name of “fluf, and pink unicorns” did you read that…
Yeay another “major announcement” from Microsoft, wp8 best thing since sliced bread?, Microsoft buys Nokia ??
How come I cant get exited.
Maybe because the first is just like wp7 was the big thing after the winme the big thing etc etc etc… or becouse the second just meens alot of time spent in court with Microsoft explaining that it had no stake in the events….
in any case Nokia the finish brand I loved will have become dead.
Major announcement, could it be a Nokia buyout? Naaah, Elop can slash the price even lower, if only he could get rid of NSN as well it’d be a swell deal for Microsoft. Or Microsoft can just buy the patents as Nokia already said they’re willing to sell… They can wrap it into `we deeply care for Nokia` (now give us your patents!) PR blurb and everybody will be happy…
Maybe that’s market is thinking…. Nokia stocks prices are stabilizing around 2.40… It Microsoft announces that monday their intention of formaly buy out Nokia, then the the crazy people, those who scream to the four cardinal points that Elop was just a trojan win… It’s hard to accept that Elop acts like a MS worker instead of a Nokia worker???
Helsinki stock exchange closed at -15%, so the similar is expected from NYSE, don’t think that speculations about buyout have much effect on the stock price at this point.
Well if you ask me, it just help to stabilize the price, it was into a fast road to the 1.90 ~ 2 Euro zone, but in the middle in turn upside… it won’t gain that 13 % lost at the start of the day, but it will maintain in that price range for the rest of the week… Jesus crazy world!!! huge sacrifice just to give a chance to MS…
I don’t think anyone would buy them even at this minuscule price due to the shear (in comparison to every other mobile phone manufacturer) number of workers Nokia employs.
What would stop the buyer to just firing the employees? Elop has been laying off people for over a year now.
Or the buyer could just devide the company and sell the parts to best bidders. Selling just NSN will already cut ~70 000 workers off of that work force. That would leave some 40 000 (after today’s announced cuts) workers in Nokia.
I think Nokia will be bought before this year is over. It’s that or bankruptcy.
All this happan by killing a mature OS(SYMBIAN) and kill off a OS that has a great potentally(MEEGO)Both are QT and if polished will dominate the world.Since Elop came from microsoft he will definitly use microsoft things like wp8.He will never admit that MEEGO is the best and wp is a failed plan.We have to see the wp8 will bring hope for nokia but as we know,they just cannot put a 41mp into restricted OS.Symbian still has more features than wp8.Not going to buy lumia.People may jump to ios or BB10 OR tizen.some say bb10 look like meego.the habit of over promise under delivery must change or else they might just go bankrupt
Firing within Europe or with Unions is expensive and takes a while probably too long to make it worth while. Look at the restructuring costs they are facing for 10,000 being let go = €1.3B, think 10 times that amount for the rest.
If MS were to buy it I’d be strangly happy. Atleast it won’t be bought by equity funds or something similar that will just cut it up and sell it on. If MS buys them it will atleast have a chance at remaining to be called Nokia.
Do you really think MS will keep the whole of Nokia? MS is more interested in Navteq, Nokia’s patents, design team, and research center. They don’t have any use of NSN and Nokia factories or dev centers. They will be sold off as soon as MS buys Nokia as part of restructuring.. If MS buys Nokia, Nokia as a brand is dead.
Nokia is so arrogant with Ellop in charge,nothing we say on forums like this will ever change. Nokia is finally dead, it reminds me of Gerald Ratner when he made his famous speech that his products were crap and Ellop did the same with his memo. Windows was never going to be a overnight success, it will take a couple of years to take shape so in the meantime don’t throw away what is your bread and butter, Microsoft need a strong Nokia for Windows to succeed not a week one. I believe that Nokia had a gem in the N9, i just hope that RIM make a success of BB10 and show Ellop what a missed opportunity they had with the N9. After 11 years of being a proud Nokia User my next phone wont be Nokia
http://www.puhelinvertailu.com/uutiset.cfm/2012/06/14/nokia_ei_aio_enaa_jatkaa_meltemin_kehittamista?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+afterdawn_uutiset+%28AfterDawn+-+Uutiset%29
Meltemi is not coming.
DS,
could you give some more info on meltemi?? what it looked like, details of the OS, etc..?
a twet I have read recent… “Engineers were locked out of their source code management systems and wikis before the announcements were made this morning.” Really? from a user called @elburger, retwetted by @summeli and others… So finally do you still believe Elop is working for Nokia????
It was confirmed by Lorn Potter (Senior Software Engineer at Nokia):
Also, somebody else mentioned that even before the press conference on Tomi’s blog. Can’t even give a slim chance for the code to be saved by some would-be-martyr, or progress data be presented, gotta burn it! Burn it all!
Basically… It’s: all Windows Phone or nothing suckers… Sorry it someone get ofended, but that are the right words nothing more, nothing less
Well, as to Windows Phone(WP7\WP8\WinRT) its probably the best chance for Nokia to release something better or comparable to their competitors, something continually which they have failed to do for the last 5 years.
In Nokia’s defence, Apple\Android double team didnt just take out Nokia, other casualties : Sony\Ericsson, RIM + Moto.
Everyone says Elop’s memo of Feb11 sank Nokia, it didn’t – it just killed the Symbian beast that was running the corridors out of control and consuming every chance Nokia would have to get out of the quandary they blindly wondered into.
The other thing was their total failure to focus their collective efforts onto 1 platform, instead of 6 : S30/S40/S^3/Meemo/meltemi/QT.
And while your competitors have been focusing on 1 platform = TOTAL COLLECTIVE SUICIDE.
They clearly didnt have a clue. The game changed – Nokia still ran their show like it was 2001. They have at most 1 year to produce a fabulous phone that everyone wants to own, failing that they are f*****.
The “share price\profits\staff numbers\cash retention” have still got a long way to fall before the turnaround.
Nokia has been running the company like it was 2001 for years, that is absolutely the right assesment. Symbian never stood a chance against Android and the plethora of manufacturers backing/using it.
Frankly, I lost hope that Nokia will put out something that will be shock and awe. They never have, atleast not something that ticked all the boxes. So why would they all of a sudden be able to do it now?
Harangue, Yeah, even if it was just a new standalone OS then that would have been hard enough maybe esp with a great browser, but the whole package inc google services and their backing – just too much for the standalone symbian to compete with.
Instead of 8. WP7.x and WP8 should be included
yes thats true !
So, how is that WP strategy working out so far, huh?
I bet it was a such a moneymaker that it brought in revenues and profit one quarter after another.
:sarcasm:
You think their competitors are gambling on one platform?
I think not, have a closer look around….
They were juggling 3x for all intents & purposes: S40/Meltemi/WP.
Two of which share much in the way of a code-base…
The others were being phased-out already, no more heavy work on them LT.
Three is not over the top looking at what everyone else is doing.
And S30/40 probably would’ve been phased-out eventually too.
Probably much more quickly than S^3 is….
Now that the Microsofication of Nokia is complete, time to move on to other company/OS. The question is which one?
That would be android for me, maybe htc or sony devices.
For me, it’s going to be RIM if they deliver the BB10 without selling out like Nokia. It does seem promising http://crackberry.com/hands-blackberry-10-initial-thoughts-and-photo-gallery
For me, it would be Android. I don’t want to jump on a sinking ship again with Nokia and WP…
Sure I will miss the beautiful homescreen widgets, sleeping screen, clear sound quality, and maps of my current symbian c7
Anybody going for iphones? Or does it defeat the core reason of abandoning Nokia?
I’m a former apple ecosystem user. Was going back to to apple again while thinking of buying the new ipad but i found myself spending hours on the web trying to research for jailbreaking just so that i can bypass itunes and do a bluetooth file transfer. Then I realized that it was too much of a hassle as you are still forced to use itunes. Plus it will cost me $10.00 just for the bluetooth file transfer functionality.
if your are going android, I would suggest Sony. They have the most pleasing skin ontop of android. The best music player “walkman”. And is doing well with the updates. Their cameras are not bad too with links to their own sensors. Their phone designs are much better than samsung. The negative would be is that they are a bit more costly (depending on region).
LG would be interesting to watch to as less expensive alternative to Samsung for the same performance but LG seems to lag in the software side.
I think I’ll go with Samsung and their galaxies. That or Huawei. (They offer really cheap products)
Sad to see Nokia reduced to this.
That’s not drool, Mr. Elop.
Too much velocity.
who wants to bet against: mr Skillman wont be enjoying S40 development an is out soon?
Wasnt Smarterphone Linux (Limo) based? Was that bought for nothing or arr they planning to use it somehow?
oh yeah, dont forget they also bought that linux? feature phone OS also : makes 9 !
At least with wp7/8/RT – someone else is actually writing the damm thing, and paying them to use it.
Nokia don’t need to cut more people just one and he is stephen elop!!! Because nokia too much dropping and it wasn’t great News just a two choice 1 Make nokia bigger and Lumia sales high or go with droid/meego no2 you fired elop!!!
Yes good good Elop after killing Symbian and Meego and literally chasing away old faithful customers from Europe+Asia+Pacifics+LatAm+Africa driving down market share to single digits from a massive 35-38%,I hope you get good traction in North America,’coz that is the only place where your WP will sell.
Was planning on buying Symbian despite its limited life but now when Elop has once again declared he doesn’t care for anything else besides WP,I won’t buy Symbian.If the company that I would pay my hard earned money to doesn’t give 2 hoots about their own platform why should I.
I wonder why The Open Handset Alliance(the Android team Google,Samsung,HTC and others) doesn’t form a consortium and takeover Nokia or at least the patents of Nokia.
This would firmly put an end to trolling by MS and Apple,infact combined with Motos patents they could reverse the flow of patent punches and get iPhone/WP banned from several key markets.
::Evil Laughs::
One thing that I fear will happen is that M$ will by Nokia now that it is really cheap, and use those patents to do everything they can to stop Android. That would just be.. well evil.
That’s the MS way of doing thing… What’s happening to the comment section on MNB, every times I reply someone, the page reload automatically, this is just me or what???
Final stages of Nokia turning in an MS puppet. EU should be ashamed of not protecting Nokia.
Every Nokia tech posing danger to MS products will not be developed or “sold off” but will be killed inside Nokia. QT and Linux based products compete against MS and so has to be burned.
Burn all bridges, burn all bridges, burn all bridges to the platform
Lav , ssdh and James , with u!!
Well , Elop strikes again … I’m wondering now if maybe Elop and the board r deliberately running Nokia into the ground . To say the least , the aforementioned firings plus abandoning Meltemi seems ominous ..And wasn’t Mary McDowell being touted not long ago as the next CEO of Nokia ? Coincidence ?
It’s the only way Elop’s strategy makes any sense ; if ur company is in dire straits , u don’t go killing successful OSes ( Symbian and Meego ) , nor do u kill a project that can save ur company if ur primary option fails ( By all accounts , Meltemi was nothing short of awesome ! ) And yes , Symbian ossuccessful , it accounts for 80% of Nokia smartphone sales last quarter and Nokia Belle is every bit the equal of iOS or Android , and it’s not just me saying that . Even Phonearena and Engaget , known for their anti Symbian bias concur .
It looks like Elop is betting the farm ( Nokia ) on Wp8 . Maybe it will succeed , but there r some major issues… First , WP is immature , seriously late to the party , and there r many other OEMs trying to get a piece . Second , WP is data and cloud intensive , this is a problem in emerging markets .Third , in many ofthese emerging markets , the N9 was quite a success , and the 800 & 900 r based on the N9 design , yet Wp is functionally inferior to Meego . For these reasons , I don’t see WP being more than moderately successful , assuming it takes off of course , despite 1.8 years , the world marketshare is still single digits . And isn’t it interesting that we don’t hear much about WP sales in emerging markets ?
I suspect it’ll be interesting to see what McDowell and the other fired execs do . Until then , invest in Asha , Asha Touch , the N9 , the 808 , and Nokia Belle phones and wait out the storm , cheers !