Jorma ollila biography for kids
Dr.
Jorma Jaakko Ollila (born 15 August ) is a Finnish businessman who was chairman of Royal Dutch Shell from 1 June to May.
Jorma Ollila
Finnish businessman
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 Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd. since 1996 and UPM-Kymmene since 1997, and an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg Partners, a New York–based boutique investment bank founded by Joseph R. Perella and Peter Weinberg in 2006.[1][2][3]
For Nokia, he was credited with turning the company into the then world's largest mobile phone maker.[4]
Education
After elementary school in Kirkon koulu, Kurikka, Finland, Ollila went to high school in Vaasan Lyseon Lukio, Vaasa, with the help of a scholarship at the United World College of the Atlantic, where he earned his 'A' levels.[5]
Thereafter, he obtained a Master of Political Science from University of Helsinki