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Place of Birth: Kotka, Southern Finland Province, Finland
About Sari Baldauf
- Sari Maritta Baldauf (born August 10, 1955 in Kotka, Finland) nominated as Nokia's Chairman, and will succeed Risto Siilasmaa in 2020.
- Nokia’s Board Corporate Governance & Nomination Committee will nominate Sari Baldauf, current Vice Chair, to be the new Chair of the Board. She is the former head of Nokia Networks. Baldauf graduated as a Master of Economics from Helsinki School of Economics in 1979 and joined Nokia in 1983.
- She was selected into Nokia's Group Executive Board in 1994. Baldauf was selected as the most influential female executive in the year 1998 by Fortune.
- In 2002 Wall Street Journal named Baldauf as the Europe's most successful female executive. On December 3, 2004 Baldauf announced to resign from Nokia on account of personal reasons.
- She is currently a member of a number of executive boards of Finnish and international companies including Fortum, Capman, F-Secure, Hewlett-Packard and Daimler.
- In 2011, she replaced Matti Lehti as chairman of the board at the major electrical utility company in Finland, Fortum.
- This made her the first female chairman of a major Finnish company.
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