Rajeev Suri

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Rajeev Suri
Born (1967-10-10) 10 October 1967 (age 56)
New Delhi, India
CitizenshipSingaporean [1]
Alma mater Manipal Institute of Technology (BE) [2]
TitleCEO, Inmarsat
Spouse
Nina Suri
(m. 1992)
Children2

Rajeev Suri (born 10 October 1967) is an Indian born Singaporean business executive. He has been the CEO of Inmarsat since February 2021. [3] Suri was the CEO of Nokia from April 2014 to July 2020. [4] [5] Before being appointed to this position, he was the CEO of Nokia Solutions and Networks (from 2009). Suri has held various positions within Nokia since 1995. [6] [7]

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Early life

Rajeev Suri was born on 10 October 1967 in New Delhi, India, and was raised in Kuwait. He is a Singaporean citizen. Suri has a bachelor of engineering degree (electronics and communications) from Manipal Institute of Technology, which was then affiliated to Mangalore University. [1] [8]

Career

Suri joined Nokia in 1995. [9] He followed Simon Beresford-Wylie as the CEO of NSN in October 2009 after Nokia Networks and Siemens Networks was merged.

In November 2011, Suri announced that the company planned to eliminate 17,000 jobs by the end of 2013. The reductions slashed the company's work force by 23% from 74,000. The cuts followed NSN's $1.2 billion purchase of Motorola's mobile network equipment business in July 2010.

In April 2014, Suri was appointed as the CEO of Nokia. [5] This was after Nokia had bought back full control of NSN and sold Nokia's phone division to Microsoft Mobile. Suri was the second non-Finnish CEO of Nokia after Stephen Elop.

In March 2020, it was announced that Suri would step down as CEO of Nokia. [10] [11] He was replaced by Pekka Lundmark in August 2020. [12]

On 24 February 2021, Suri was appointed as the CEO of Inmarsat, replacing Rupert Pearce. [3]

Personal life

Suri is based in Singapore and London. [13] [14] [15] [16] He is married to Nina Alag Suri, a businesswoman and the founder and CEO of Singaporean startup X0pa.ai. [17] They have two sons: Ankit and Anish.[ citation needed ] [18]

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Business positions
Preceded byas interim CEO Nokia Corporation CEO
2014–2020
Succeeded by
Preceded by Nokia Solutions and Networks CEO
2009–2020
Succeeded by