[1][2][3] For Nokia, he was credited with turning the company into the then world's largest mobile phone maker.

A year later, in 1986, Ollila was head of finance during Nokia's renewal under then CEO Kari Kairamo.

When Ollila first came to power, the company had suffered from internal disputes and had a financial crisis of a number of years.

As CEO of Nokia he has led the strategy that restructured the former industrial conglomerate into one of the major companies in the mobile phone and telecommunications infrastructure markets.

Ollila said in a February 2011 interview with Finnish broadcaster Yle that he supported the Nokia-Microsoft partnership initiated by the CEO, Stephen Elop, and predicted the company's fortunes will strongly recover.

[15][16] Ollila was chairman of the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), the most reputed economic and social studies think tank in Finland.

[19] The oil company insists it cannot make the numbers add up to justify offshore windfarms.

Ollila had recruited four security guards for his book launch event in Helsinki in October 2013.

Ollila was fined 3,000 euros by Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (Fiva) for failing to make a timely disclosure that he owns an investment company called Kestrel SA.