Nokia - Company Announcement

Nokia simplifies its organizational structure to accelerate execution and innovation

Nokia Corporation
Stock exchange release
May 11, 2010 at 14:00 (CET +1)

Nokia simplifies its organizational structure to accelerate execution and
innovation 

Espoo, Finland - To increase competitiveness and deliver a stronger and more
differentiated consumer experience, Nokia will introduce a simplified company
structure for its devices and services business comprised of three units:
Mobile Solutions, Mobile Phones and Markets. Effective July 1, 2010, the move
aims to accelerate product innovation and software execution in line with the
company's goals of integrating content, applications and services into its
mobile computer, smartphone and mobile phone portfolio. 

The new Mobile Solutions unit will concentrate on the company's high-end mobile
computer and smartphone portfolio.  Based on both the MeeGo and Symbian
software platforms respectively, these devices will be tightly integrated with
Nokia's Internet services to increase the combined value for consumers. 

The renewed Mobile Phones unit will focus on maintaining Nokia's leadership in
the feature-rich mobile phone market and driving the direction of Series 40,
the world's largest mobile operating system. Both the Mobile Solutions and
Mobile Phones units will have dedicated portfolio management, including product
planning, R&D and dedicated software assets. 

Markets will be responsible for Nokia's ‘go-to-market' activities, including
sales and marketing, management of Nokia's global supply chains and sourcing
operations. 

“In addition to extending our leadership in mobile phones, we are decisively
moving to respond faster to growth opportunities we expect in smartphones and
mobile computers,” says Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO of Nokia. “Nokia's new
organizational structure is designed to speed up execution and accelerate
innovation, both short-term and longer-term.  We believe that this will allow
us to build stronger mobile solutions - a portfolio of products and integrated
services that connect people and enable new ways of communicating, sharing and
experiencing mobility.” 

To strike the right balance between business continuity, professional
competencies and faster execution, this organizational realignment includes
changes among Nokia's senior executives. 

The Mobile Solutions unit will be headed by Anssi Vanjoki and be comprised of
MeeGo Computers, led by Alberto Torres, and Symbian Smartphones, led by Jo
Harlow. As part of the Mobile Solutions unit, Services - led by Tero Ojanpera -
will continue to develop Ovi as an integrated service into smartphones and
mobile computers, and lead the development and deployment of new services into
Nokia's mobile phones. Nokia has also appointed Rich Green to the position of
Chief Technology Officer, assuming responsibility for driving common technology
architecture across Nokia. Green brings a wealth of experience from his time in
Silicon Valley, including a number of years at Sun Microsystems. He will report
to Anssi Vanjoki. 

Headed by Mary McDowell, the Mobile Phones unit will work closely with Services
to add value to lower-end devices through offerings such as Ovi Life Tools, Ovi
Mail, Ovi Store and Nokia Money. 

The Markets unit will continue to focus on Nokia's overall sales and marketing
efforts, solution selling, transformation to digital marketing and
consolidation and globalization of Nokia's supply chain and sourcing. Markets
will be headed by Niklas Savander. 

Kai Oistamo assumes the role of Chief Development Officer and head of Corporate
Development. 
Rick Simonson, who currently heads Mobile Phones, has decided to retire from
full-time duties at Nokia. Simonson will leave the Nokia Group Executive Board
effective June 30, 2010. However, he will continue as a senior advisor to
Nokia, focusing on Nokia Siemens Networks, until the end of the year. Simonson
will continue to serve as a member of Nokia Siemens Networks' Board of
Directors after he leaves Nokia. 

“Rick has made a substantial contribution and leaves behind a legacy in
operational and financial leadership. I would like to thank him for his
invaluable contribution,” says Kallasvuo. “We will certainly miss Rick, but are
pleased he will continue as a senior advisor to Nokia until the end of year,
and continue as an NSN board member beyond that.” 

As of July 1, 2010 Nokia's Group Executive Board will consist of the following
members: Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Esko Aho, Juha Akras, Timo Ihamuotila, Mary
McDowell, Kai Oistamo, Tero Ojanpera, Niklas Savander, Alberto Torres, and
Anssi Vanjoki. 
A chart of the new organizational structure, valid from July 1, 2010, is
available at http://www.nokia.com/A4630650?category=company 

About Nokia
At Nokia, we are committed to connecting people. We combine advanced technology
with personalized services that enable people to stay close to what matters to
them. Every day, more than 1.2 billion people connect to one another with a
Nokia device - from mobile phones to advanced smartphones and high-performance
mobile computers. Today, Nokia is integrating its devices with innovative
services through Ovi (www.ovi.com), including music, maps, apps, email and
more. Nokia's NAVTEQ is a leader in comprehensive digital mapping and
navigation services, while Nokia Siemens Networks provides equipment, services
and solutions for communications networks globally. 

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS 
It should be noted that certain statements herein which are not historical
facts are forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, those
regarding: A) the timing of the deliveries of our products and services and
their combinations; B) our ability to develop, implement and commercialize new
technologies, products and services and their combinations; C) expectations
regarding market developments and structural changes; D) expectations and
targets regarding our industry volumes, market share, prices, net sales and
margins of products and services and their combinations; E) expectations and
targets regarding our operational priorities and results of operations; F) the
outcome of pending and threatened litigation; G) expectations regarding the
successful completion of acquisitions or restructurings on a timely basis and
our ability to achieve the financial and operational targets set in connection
with any such acquisition or restructuring; and H) statements preceded by"believe,""expect,""anticipate,""foresee,""target,""estimate,""designed,""plans,""will" or similar expressions. These statements are based on
management's best assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently
available to it. Because they involve risks and uncertainties, actual results
may differ materially from the results that we currently expect. Factors that
could cause these differences include, but are not limited to: 1) the
competitiveness and quality of our portfolio of products and services and their
combinations; 2) our ability to timely and successfully develop or otherwise
acquire the appropriate technologies and commercialize them as new advanced
products and services and their combinations, including our ability to attract
application developers and content providers to develop applications and
provide content for use in our devices; 3) our ability to effectively, timely
and profitably adapt our business and operations to the requirements of the
converged mobile device market and the services market; 4) the intensity of
competition in the various markets where we do business and our ability to
maintain or improve our market position or respond successfully to changes in
the competitive environment; 5) the occurrence of any actual or even alleged
defects or other quality, safety or security issues in our products and
services and their combinations; 6) the development of the mobile and fixed
communications industry and general economic conditions globally and
regionally; 7) our ability to successfully manage costs; 8) exchange rate
fluctuations, including, in particular, fluctuations between the euro, which is
our reporting currency, and the US dollar, the Japanese yen and the Chinese
yuan, as well as certain other currencies; 9) the success, financial condition
and performance of our suppliers, collaboration partners and customers; 10) our
ability to source sufficient amounts of fully functional components,
sub-assemblies, software, applications and content without interruption and at
acceptable prices and quality; 11) our success in collaboration arrangements
with third parties relating to the development of new technologies, products
and services, including applications and content; 12) our ability to manage
efficiently our manufacturing and logistics, as well as to ensure the quality,
safety, security and timely delivery of our products and services and their
combinations; 13) our ability to manage our inventory and timely adapt our
supply to meet changing demands for our products; 14) our ability to protect
the complex technologies, which we or others develop or that we license, from
claims that we have infringed third parties' intellectual property rights, as
well as our unrestricted use on commercially acceptable terms of certain
technologies in our products and services and their combinations; 15) our
ability to protect numerous Nokia, NAVTEQ and Nokia Siemens Networks patented,
standardized or proprietary technologies from third-party infringement or
actions to invalidate the intellectual property rights of these technologies;
16) the impact of changes in government policies, trade policies, laws or
regulations and economic or political turmoil in countries where our assets are
located and we do business; 17) any disruption to information technology
systems and networks that our operations rely on; 18) our ability to retain,
motivate, develop and recruit appropriately skilled employees; 19) unfavorable
outcome of litigations; 20) allegations of possible health risks from
electromagnetic fields generated by base stations and mobile devices and
lawsuits related to them, regardless of merit; 21) our ability to achieve
targeted costs reductions and increase profitability in Nokia Siemens Networks
and to effectively and timely execute related restructuring measures; 22)
developments under large, multi-year contracts or in relation to major
customers in the networks infrastructure and related services business; 23) the
management of our customer financing exposure, particularly in the networks
infrastructure and related services business; 24) whether ongoing or any
additional governmental investigations into alleged violations of law by some
former employees of Siemens AG ("Siemens") may involve and affect the
carrier-related assets and employees transferred by Siemens to Nokia Siemens
Networks; 25) any impairment of Nokia Siemens Networks customer relationships
resulting from ongoing or any additional governmental investigations involving
the Siemens carrier-related operations transferred to Nokia Siemens Networks;
as well as the risk factors specified on pages 11-32 of Nokia's annual report
Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2009 under Item 3D. "Risk Factors."
Other unknown or unpredictable factors or underlying assumptions subsequently
proving to be incorrect could cause actual results to differ materially from
those in the forward-looking statements. Nokia does not undertake any
obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking statements, whether as
a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent
legally required. 

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