Stephen Elop has a new job – digi.no

Elop wrote himself into the history books when he in 2010 left a management position at Microsoft and was the first chief executive of Nokia without Finnish citizenship.

He was to increase the company’s renewal rate, and immediately took dramatic grip, best illustrated by the famous memo on a burning platform (Nokia’s operating system Symbian) that they had to leave.

Critics have argued that he, four years later served mobile division on a silver platter to Microsoft. Under his leadership, the Finnish industrial adventure reduced to a shadow of past greatness.

The Canadian got bonus for the job, and when he returned to Microsoft, he was in a period favorite to go all the way as successor to Steve Ballmer. The job he was known not.

On the other hand he had to leave the software giant a few years later, formally justified by the hardware division he led was merged with the Windows division. It happened last summer.

Commute to Australia

Today Bloomberg reports that Stephen Elop (52) has a new job.

There are Australian Telstra Corp. who has hired him into a new position as director of technology, innovation and strategy. He fits in the telecommunications company’s management team.

He will be responsible for leading the strategy work which is scheduled to make Telstra for a technology company in the world. He will commute between the US and Australia, and reports directly to the Managing Director, Andrew Penn, according to the announcement.

– I have long recognized Telstra as one of the most innovative and insightful in the telecommunications industry. Telstra has a strong customer focus and a willingness to invest in advanced products and services, said Stephen Elop.

Recently, he accepted an advisory position at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, where he originally took degree in computer science and management. Same university appointed him in 2009 an honorary doctorate. In that role, he will hold two lectures for students annually.

Telstra is Australia’s largest telecommunications operator measured in both subscriptions and coverage. They were the country’s telecommunications monopoly until privatization in the 1990s. In recent times, Telstra announced an increased international commitment.

In the homeland state they have 16.9 million mobile subscribers, 7.2 million customers in fixed telephony and 3.3 million broadband customers.

Here in this country will have to remember that the Norwegian search company Fast Search & amp; Transfer in 2006 posted an agreement with Telstra, which never came. It led to the Norwegian authorities later charged with leaders Real for accounting fraud, which ended in a conviction.