In addition, Vanjoki has served as the chairman of the board of Amer Sports, on the boards of the Oulu earlight company Valkee Oy and the Basware software company from Espoo.

Vanjoki was a member of the group assembled by CEO Jorma Ollila, the so-called "dream team".

He was nominated as Nokia's new CEO to replace Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, but the company chose Canadian Stephen Elop as its director.

[8] In January 2011, Vanjoki invested in Apple's iPhone Game Book service intended for golf players, and at the same time became a board member of Free Drop Innovations Oy Ltd.[9] Vanjoki considered Nokia's alliance with Microsoft in autumn 2011 unnecessary.

[11] He considered the transfer of Nokia's phone unit to Microsoft in September 2013 shameful.