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Mangalore University graduate Rajeev Suri may head Nokia

  •   Fri, Mar 14 2014 07:20:38 PM

Mangalore University graduate Rajeev Suri may head Nokia

New Delhi, Mar 14 (PTI): After Satya Nadella, it may now be the turn of another Mangalore University graduate to head a Fortune 500 company.

Rajeev Suri, who currently heads Nokia's telecom equipment business, is tipped to become the global chief executive officer of Nokia Corporation.

An announcement elevating Suri may be made by March-end or April, when software giant Microsoft concludes the acquisition of Nokia's handset business, Finnish media reports suggest. After the acquisition, Nokia will be left with the telecom equipment, location-based services and advanced technologies business.

Nokia said its longstanding policy is not to comment on media speculation.

Suri is also an engineering graduate from Mangalore University like Nadella, who took over last month as US-based Microsoft's third CEO after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.

If chosen, Suri will join an 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.

Suri, who has headed Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN) since October 2009, has been credited for "presiding over consistently improving results leading to the successful turnaround and restructuring of the company."

According to his official profile, Suri has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Manipal Institute of Technology (class of 1989) under Mangalore University. He is based in Espoo, Finland.

With more than 23 years of international experience, Suri has worked in strategy and mergers & acquisitions, product marketing, sales, major account leadership, regional and business unit leadership and has lived in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe.

Suri joined Nokia in 1995 and headed the Asia Pacific region for NSN in 2007.

In July last year, Nokia agreed to buy German engineering giant Siemens' 50 per cent stake in their mobile broadband joint venture NSN for 1.7 billion euros (USD 2.2 billion) after which the firm was renamed Nokia Solutions and Networks.

  

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  • prakash, mangalore

    Sat, Mar 15 2014

    Its eyeporking to know both Nadella and Suri both are from the Manipal Institute of Technology.A great achievement by these guys. CEO Of Microsoft and CEO of nokia is indeed great.

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Katapadi/Bangalore

    Sat, Mar 15 2014

    Good news that Rajeev Suri,a graduate from our Mangalore University to become head of Nokia.We wish him all the best.Thanq.

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  • M.K, Mulky/Sharjah

    Sat, Mar 15 2014

    We are very happy that our Indians raising to these positions. But the bigger question is why these brains are running out of India. Who is responsible for this. Why can't we give opportunities to them in India.

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  • Robin, Byndoor

    Sat, Mar 15 2014

    For your Information, Nokia is owned by Microsoft. When Microsoft purchased Nokia, First thing I did was thrown my Nokia set to River.... (Of course it was 6 years old... He... He... He...)

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  • KLD, Mangalore

    Sat, Mar 15 2014

    this is victory of Aam Admi graduate. All of the region and Mangalore University graduates to be happy with this

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  • Anantha Rao, Belthangady

    Fri, Mar 14 2014

    Rajiv Suri studied PUC ( Science ) at Ganapathy Junior College, Mangalore. I was his classmate.

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, Bahrain

    Fri, Mar 14 2014

    Congrats Suri,another Indian taking over as a head of Nokia. We are proud of u Suri.

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  • JM Lewis, Mangalore/Dxb

    Fri, Mar 14 2014

    One more STAR on the Crown of MIT, Manipal......

    Keep going... Karnataka Education/Human Resources Ministers.. Wake up and increase employment opportunities for our future generation and reduce brain drain...

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai

    Fri, Mar 14 2014

    Congrats to Mr. Suri on his achievement!! No doubt it is a great credit to his Alma mater, but the moot point is what has he has done or will do for it or to his countrymen in return (the poor peasants, have-nots) ever??

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  • Alex, MANGALORE

    Sat, Mar 15 2014

    President John F Kennedy said to his countrymen at the inaugural function, my fellow countrymen dont ask what your country can do but what you can do for your country.

    However the current scenario in India for the last couple of decades has shown that scrupulous and honest people are not at all wanted and they can not make a living in India in honest ways.

    So the brain drain will be there for India, and will go on for another hundred years at least till the mindset of the people changes.

    The other day a taxi driver told me that India will never SUDRAO until people take full responsibility and conscious of their own actions.

    We see all persons, however big and small abruptly change behavior once in a position of some kind of power.

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