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As Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Tero Ojanperä is responsible for corporate and technology strategy, strategic alliances and partnerships, research, standardization, intellectual property rights, venturing, Mobile Software sales and marketing, Forum Nokia developer activities, business infrastructure and Industry Relations.
Tero has played a defining role in the research and development work of Nokia’s business groups since joining the company in 1990 as a research engineer within Nokia’s Oulu mobile operations.
Throughout his career Tero has consistently shown an ability to balance the strong elements of his scientific background with Nokia’s broader business strategies. During 2002-2004 he headed Nokia Research Center, a corporate research unit driving Nokia’s technological competitiveness and renewal. Prior to this role, he held several senior management positions in Nokia Networks.
He has been a member of the Group Executive Board of Nokia from January 2005.
A highly respected authority on radio access technologies, Tero spearheaded several radio systems research efforts around wideband CDMA, GSM and US TDMA mobile protocols within Nokia. He also led industry-wide radio interface research and standardization projects and initiatives, including the EU 4th Framework Program project (FRAMES), which laid the foundation for today’s third-generation (3G) technologies.
Tero is the Chairman of Nokia Foundation, supporting the development of scientific competence and educational capabilities in information and telecommunications technologies. He has held positions on several technology organizations and committees.
He is a highly respected industry commentator and author of the book "WCDMA for Third Generation Mobile Communications" (1998) and its second edition "WCDMA: Towards IP Mobility and Mobile Internet" (2001). He has also authored several conference and journal papers and contributed chapters to industry reference works including "The Mobile Communications Handbook, second edition" (1999).
He holds a master’s of science degree from the University of Oulu, Finland and a Ph.D degree from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Tero was born Nov 12, 1966, in Korsnäs, Finland. He is married and has three children. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, sports and spending time with his family. | 