Stephen Elop

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Stephen Elop (2008)

Stephen Elop (born December 31, 1963 in Ancaster , Ontario , Canada ) is a Canadian manager . From September 21, 2010 to September 3, 2013, he succeeded Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo and was the first non-Finn as President and CEO of Nokia . After his resignation as Nokia CEO, he was head of the mobile phone division, which was sold to Microsoft in 2014 .

Life

Elop graduated from McMaster University in Hamilton (Ontario) with a degree in computer engineering and management , from which he graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Engineering degree. In 2009 McMaster University awarded him an honorary doctorate .

Elop was CEO at the software manufacturer Macromedia . After his company was acquired by Adobe in 2005, he took on responsibility for global sales and distribution for Adobe Inc. Subsequently, Elop was Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Juniper Networks , a provider of network infrastructure and a partner of Microsoft. In January 2008, he became president of Microsoft's business customer department and was involved in general Microsoft strategy development as part of top management.

2010 Elop went as CEO of Nokia, where he announced on 11 February 2011 that his future Nokia smartphones instead of running the operating system Symbian with Windows Phone wants to deliver Microsoft. This decision was later seen as one of the main reasons for Nokia's demise. He returned to Microsoft following the acquisition of the Nokia cell phone division in 2014 and became Vice President of the Microsoft Devices Group . As part of the move, Elop received a severance payment of almost 19 million euros.

Stephen Elop and a Lumia 640

His conduct in dismissing 12,500 of the 25,000 Nokia employees he took over from Microsoft, which he dealt with in two sentences, has been criticized.

On June 17, 2015, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the separation from Elop in an email .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heise Online: Nokia is looking for a new strategy and new bosses. September 3, 2013, accessed September 3, 2013 .
  2. ↑ STEPHEN ELOP, B.ENG. '86
  3. ^ Frank Riemenschneider: Windows Phone and Nokia: Hope for the grace of Microsoft. February 28, 2011, accessed August 28, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Frank Riemenschneider: How Stephen Elop hit Nokia against the wall - his most catastrophic mistakes. June 7, 2011, accessed August 28, 2014 .
  5. ^ Frank Riemenschneider: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop: From disaster manager to grave digger. July 10, 2011, accessed August 28, 2014 .
  6. ↑ http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2471790,00.asp
  7. ↑ Frank Riemenschneider: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop receives almost 19 million euros in severance payment. September 20, 2013, accessed August 28, 2014 .
  8. ↑ derstandard.at: Ex-Nokia boss Elop: IT manager with qualities in the body check
  9. ↑ derstandard.at: Sharp criticism of ex-Nokia boss Elop after mass layoffs
  10. ↑ Satya Nadella email to employees on aligning engineering to strategy
personal data
SURNAME Elop, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian manager
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Ancaster , Ontario, Canada