Meet the new CEO of NOKIA - Rajeev Suri

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India born Rajeev Suri will be the new CEO of Nokia, a 143 year old Finnish telecommunications equipment maker. Mr Suri, 46, until now led Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN), the smaller network equipment unit of Nokia when the company still made mobile phones. He will take charge from 1st May 2014. He replaces Stephen Elop, who has returned to Microsoft as the executive vice president of its devices group. Suri is the second Indian to assume the corner office at giant multinational firms, after Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella, 47, became the CEO of tech behemoth Microsoft Corporation in February. Interestingly, Rajeev Suri is also an engineering graduate from Manipal University like Satya Nadella. With this achievement Rajeev Suri has joined the elite club of Indians heading global firms, which includes PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi, Reckitt Benckiser Chief Executive Rakesh Kapoor, Ajay Banga, President and Chief Executive of MasterCard, and Anshu Jain of Deutsche Bank.

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