As the in-house journalist for Nokia’s Cloud and Network Services, I embarked on a project to profile the business group’s various leaders so that those inside the 22,500 person organization, and outside it, could get to know them better.
It was about three years ago that Guy Shemesh gazed around his office before a hiring drive and was struck by an unsettling realization: nearly all his Nokia colleagues looked alike. As with most high-tech offices around the world, the…
When Stephan Litjens joined Nokia 25 years ago, he was eager to channel his entrepreneurial spirit into the newly liberalized telecom market in which private ownership was emerging and mobile networks were in their early days. In his native Netherlands,…
At the core of Cloud and Network Services sits the aptly named Core Networks business unit. It is responsible for designing, developing and getting to market the key technologies that operate the heart of a modern telecommunications network. And with…
It’s a cut-throat business fixated on wins and the bottom line. But the man responsible for generating Nokia’s Cloud and Network Services revenue from service providers takes a philosophical approach to the art of sales. Vishal Singh says it’s more…
Nancy Yueh leads the transformation drive for Cloud and Network Services and it’s an apt title for her to hold. After all, she’s transformed herself from an East Coast “Jersey Girl” to a mainstay in Silicon Valley, from a finance…
For Friedrich Trawoeger there is no real distinction between personal and professional life. As head of the Cloud and Cognitive Services organization, he oversees a range of advanced and managed services that look to ease the earth’s environmental and sustainability…
As chief operations officer for Cloud and Network Services, Christian Foerster is responsible for leading procurement, supply chain, process simplification and digitalization – making sure products are delivered when needed at quality and cost. In other words, he’s the glue…
While studying business administration at the University of Texas at Dallas, Issa Eid was hired as a product quality analyst at Nortel Networks in Dallas. Human resources and leaving the Lone Star state were the furthest things from his mind….
Throughout his extensive networking career, Karl Bream has frequently alternated between the carrier and enterprise worlds. Starting at AT&T and in later roles at Alcatel-Lucent and, following the 2016 merger, at Nokia as well, Bream has found himself moving back…
Chris Johnson has two passions: sales and music. For the past 30+ years, he has pursued both with similar enthusiasm. By day, he’s at the forefront of Nokia’s push into Industry 4.0 as leader of Cloud and Network Services’ Enterprise…
Hamdy Farid likens his path from a modest upbringing in Egypt to a top leadership position at Nokia to that of a typical immigrant story. After earning a computer engineering degree from Alexandria University, and briefly working in software in…