About
Pertti Korhonen (M.Sc in Engineering) has spent his forty year career mostly in technology industries from telecommunications, microelectronics, automation and robotics, automotive and system critical software, minerals, metals and biomaterials processing to circular economy solutions. For the first 20 years of his career, he worked at Nokia Corporation in a wide range of roles from Integrated Circuit Designer to Executive roles leading Product and Technology Development, Manufacturing Operations and Technology, Supply Chain, Purchasing, Software Business and as Chief Technology Officer and Executive Board Member. After his career at Nokia, he served as CEO of two listed technology companies, Elektrobit Plc and Outotec Plc, serving B2B customers on all continents. During recent years he has served in Chairman and Board roles in several listed and privately owned companies, as an Advisor and Investor with Private Equity companies and as Chairman of Business Finland, the State of Finland’s vehicle for financing R&D and Innovations.
Highlights
- Mr Korhonen played a key role in many milestones of Nokia’s climb from an unknown company to undisputed global leader in Mobile Communications. He designed system architectures and microchips for several now iconic products that pioneered the global mobile phone industry. After that he was in charge of scaling up production technology, supply chain, purchasing and software platforms to establish global leadership and excellence.
- He has since more than 10 years been passionate about creating technologies addressing challenges of global warming, environment pollution and over exploitation of natural resources.
- Mr Korhonen has been decorated as Knight and Commander of the Order of White Rose of Finland.
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