Nokia's head of global services to leave the company (updated)

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08/12/2020 15:59

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    HELSINKI, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Finnish telecoms equipment maker
Nokia's  NOKIA.HE  president of global services and member of
the group's leadership team Sanjay Goel will leave the company,
a Nokia spokeswoman told Reuters on Tuesday.
    Several members of Nokia's top management team have departed
since Pekka Lundmark took over as chief executive in August.
    Nokia said Goel's exit was a result of the company moving to
a new operating model to be implemented on Jan. 1. It was
introduced to investors together with the group's third-quarter
earnings at the end of October.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2HK0CA
    "As part of new operating model, we are also streamlining
our Group Leadership Team, in order to best support the four new
business groups," the spokeswoman said, adding that Nokia
planned to share more details of its new operating model on Dec.
16, and in its Capital Markets Day in March.
    Other senior managers who have left the company recently
include Chief Marketing Officer Barry French and Chief
Technology Officer and President of Bells Labs Marcus Weldon.
    In May, Nokia's enterprise chief Kathrin Buvac left the
company to lead business development at Amazon Web Services, and
in June, Nokia nominated Marco Wiren as its new chief financial
officer to replace long-serving Kristian Pullola, who will leave
the company at the end of this year. 
    "There is some evolution within the senior team and these
changes are being worked through at an individual level with a
lot of mutual goodwill and respect," the spokeswoman said.
    

 (Reporting by Anne Kauranen in Helsinki and Supantha Mukherjee
in Stockholm; Editing by David Goodman and Bill Berkrot)
 ((anne.kauranen@thomsonreuters.com; +358925166112;))