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Anssi Markku Kaleva Vanjoki (born 13 September 1956) is a Finnish businessman who was Executive Vice President of
Nokia Corporation Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, in the Helsinki metro ...
and member of the executive board from 1998 to 2010.) Vanjoki is the director of Rantakesä-RKBS Oy, which provides business management consulting services, and the CEO of Aqsens Oy, which manufactures measurement, testing and navigation equipment. He serves on the board of the Järvelä-based wood processing company Koskinen and the Helsinki-based patent company Atacama Labs Oy. In addition, Vanjoki has served as the chairman of the board of Amer Sports, on the boards of the Oulu earlight company Valkee Oy and the Basware software company from Espoo. Vanjoki has served as chairman of the board of Oriola in 2015–2020 and chairman of the board of Elisa since 2019.


Career

Vanjoki served on the board of
Nokia Corporation Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, in the Helsinki metro ...
since 1998 and he worked for Nokia since 1991. He worked, among other things, as director of the Markets unit, director of the Multimedia business group and director of
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. Vanjoki was a member of the group assembled by CEO
Jorma Ollila Jorma Jaakko Ollila (born 15 August 1950) is a Finnish businessman who was chairman of Royal Dutch Shell from 1 June 2006 to May 2015, and at Nokia Corporation chairman from 1999 to 2012 and CEO from 1992 to 2006. He has been a director of Ota ...
, the so-called "dream team". Vanjoki has been the chairman of the board of Amer Sports Oyj and a member of the board of Sonova Holding AG. Vanjoki has a master's degree in business administration. Vanjoki is the former director of Nokia's wireless services unit. Vanjoki left the company in September 2010. He was nominated as Nokia's new CEO to replace
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (born 13 July 1953) is a Finnish businessman who serves the current Chairman of the Board of Cinia Oy, chaired the committee for World Design Capital Helsinki 2012, and is the former chairman, chief executive officer and pres ...
, but the company chose Canadian
Stephen Elop Stephen Elop (born 31 December 1963) is a Canadian businessman who most recently worked at Australian telecom company Telstra from April 2016. In the past he had worked for Nokia as its first non-Finnish CEO and later as Executive Vice President ...
as its director. Vanjoki started at
Lappeenranta University of Technology Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT (''Finnish language, Finnish'': Lappeenrannan-Lahden teknillinen yliopisto LUT), better known by the abbreviation LUT University (''Finnish language, Finnish'': LUT-yliopisto) is a Finland, Finnish ...
as a professor (Professor of Practice) in the fall of 2013. After Nokia, at the end of 2010, Vanjoki invested in the earlight company Valkee Oy company. In January 2011, Vanjoki invested in Apple's
iPhone The iPhone is a line of smartphones developed and marketed by Apple that run iOS, the company's own mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by then–Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, at ...
Game Book service intended for golf players, and at the same time became a board member of Free Drop Innovations Oy Ltd. Vanjoki considered Nokia's alliance with Microsoft in autumn 2011 unnecessary. In 2012, he gave up Nokia's stock. He considered the transfer of Nokia's phone unit to Microsoft in September 2013 shameful.


Personal life

In October 2001, Vanjoki received a fine for speeding, i.e. 690 000 marks (about 116 000 euros). The fine sparked a social debate and, among others, according to the Minister of Justice
Johannes Koskinen Hannu Erkki Johannes Koskinen (born 10 December 1954) is a Finnish politician and a lawyer as profession. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP). Koskinen was born in Janakkala. He has been a member of the Parliament of F ...
, "the entire system of fines has to be revised due to the shortcomings written into the law". In February 2002, the Helsinki District Court reduced Vanjoki's fine to 35 000 marks (about 5 900 euros), because according to the salary statements submitted by Nokia, Vanjoki's income had decreased. Vanjoki is the father of basketball players Anselmi and Viljami Vanjoki.


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