Nokia’s Stephen Elop Jumps Off Burning Platform Onto D9 Hot Seat: The Full Interview (Video)

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has not had the best of times since he left a top job at Microsoft to take over the reins of the Finnish mobile giant. What with layoffs, executive shakeups, an earnings scare and stock drops, along with a need to completely rehaul its offerings, he’s had a lot to wrangle with.

Stephen Elop

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Elop joined Nokia as president and chief executive officer in 2010, and has now signed a historic pact with this former employer, Microsoft, to use the latter's new smartphone operating system on Nokia's handsets, which have been severely challenged by those from Apple and Google. Prior to throwing in his lot with the Finns, he served as president of Microsoft's Business Division and was a member of Microsoft's senior leadership team responsible for the company's overall strategy. Macromedia, Adobe, and Juniper Networks all played a role in shaping his current thinking on communications tools, corporate development and manufacturing. Elop earned a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and management from McMaster University in his home country of Canada, and was subsequently awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Good going, eh?

Posts With Stephen Elop

U.S. Sales Are Bright Spot for Nokia’s Lumia

No signs of Lumia demand “falling off a cliff” — in the U.S., anyway.
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Nokia Dips Into Red as Q1 Sales Drop Nearly 29 Percent

Nokia’s quarterly results were, as expected, grim, with a steep drop in sales and operating losses. And the company’s top sales executive is stepping down.
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Diving Bell Locates Nokia Share Price

Ugly. Make that grotesque.
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Nokia Warns on Q1, Q2 Earnings Amid Rough Transition

Nokia warned that it won’t reach its goal of being at roughly break-even in its phone business for the first quarter, and said second-quarter results should be about the same.
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Nokia to Sell High-End Lumia in China

Finnish phone maker Nokia Corp. is launching sales of its high-end Lumia smartphones in China in a move to gain market share in the world’s largest smartphone market and to push forward the troubled company’s turnaround.

Nokia’s Strategy Comes Into Focus in Barcelona

At an event in Barcelona, Nokia adds a new low-end Lumia 610 and the 808 Pure View, a Symbian smartphone with an impressive 41-megapixel camera.
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Microsoft’s Millions Help Cushion Nokia’s Windows Phone Transition

Redmond paid Nokia $250 million in “platform support payments,” the first of many such infusions that should help ease what is clearly a painful transition.
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Nokia Sells a Million Windows Phones, but Symbian Dropping Faster Than Expected

It remains to be seen if Nokia can grow its Windows Phone business faster than its Symbian business tails off.
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Nokia’s Developer Newsletter More Forthcoming Than Execs, Promises Lumia 900 Set for March Debut

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop refused to be at all specific on when the new LTE-capable smartphone would ship, but the company’s developer newsletter states plainly that it will come in March.
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The Chat I Had With Stephen Elop as We Both Nearly Missed Final Ballmer-Note

The Nokia chief had plenty to say about the new Lumia 900, Windows Phone and more. In fact, the chat was so good, we ran late to see Microsoft’s last CES keynote.
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Why Microsoft Might Yet Need to Buy Nokia

Nokia CEO Vows to Pump Up the Volume