CEO of the Year

摘要

Even as dozens of other high-tech industry executives are obsessed with wiring the planet, Jorma Ollila, chairman and CEO of Finland's Nokia Corp., is equally intent on bringing peo- ple, words, data, and the Internet together anywhere and anytime without wires. Ollila, IW's 2000 CEO of the Year, calls it creating the Mobile Information Society. "What the Mobile Information Society really achieves for us is that it helps us to increase our quality of life by making the most of our limited supply of time. It helps boost our efficiency. It allows us to do more. To achieve more. It empowers us to make more of ourselves," he says. If that seems unabashedly ambitious for a former Citigroup Inc. banker, so be it. Indeed, promoting a culture of risk-taking has been one of the major themes of Ollila's eight years as chief executive of Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker that recorded 1999 revenues of US$ 19.92 billion (19.77 billion euros).