REG-Nokia appoints Kristen Pressner as Chief People Officer and member of the Group Leadership Team

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Nokia Corporation
Stock Exchange Release
10 November 2025 at 09:45 EET

Nokia appoints Kristen Pressner as Chief People Officer and member of the
Group Leadership Team

Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced the appointment of Kristen Pressner
as Chief People Officer and member of the Group Leadership Team, effective 1
May 2026.

Pressner has over 30 years of international experience in HR, talent
management, and organizational transformation. She joins Nokia from Roche
Holding Group, where she most recently served as Global Head of People &
Culture for Roche Diagnostics. Across her tenure at Roche Holding, she played
a key role in strengthening leadership, evolving the company’s operating
model, and shaping a culture that enables innovation and drives business
impact. Earlier in her career at Texas Instruments, she held various HR
leadership roles focused on driving culture and capability transformation in
the dynamic global technology environment.

“I am thrilled to welcome Kristen to Team Nokia as we work together to build
a culture of empowerment, accountability, and a customer-first mindset to
increase focus and improve performance across our business. Kristen brings a
wealth of experience in driving transformation through business. She will lead
our cultural evolution toward an AI-empowered, united team, focused on
delivering for our customers and seizing the opportunities the AI supercycle
is creating for advanced and trusted connectivity,” said Justin Hotard,
President and CEO of Nokia.

“This is an incredibly exciting time to join Nokia. The company is
transforming for the era of AI, cloud, and next-generation networks and at the
center of that transformation are its people. Nokia’s success depends on the
creativity, courage, and collaboration of its teams around the world, and
I’m inspired by the opportunity to play a key role in unleashing that
potential. As a global technology leader with a remarkable heritage and a bold
future, Nokia is poised to shape the next chapter of connectivity and I
can’t wait to be part of that journey,” Pressner commented.

Pressner will be based in Finland and report to Nokia’s President and Chief
Executive Officer, Justin Hotard.

Additional background information on all current members of the Group
Leadership Team can be found
at: www.nokia.com/en_int/investors/corporate-governance/group-leadership-team.

Kristen Pressner, CV 
Born: 1970
Nationality: American and Swiss

Education: 
Master of Business Administration (MBA), International Human Resources
Management, University of Dallas

Bachelor of Arts, Communication, Purdue University

Experience: 
2005–2025 Roche Holding Group
* Global Head of People & Culture, Roche Diagnostics, 2016–2025
* Vice President, Head of HR, Europe, Middle East, Africa & Latin America,
Roche Diagnostics, 2012–2016
* Sr. Director, Global Learning & Development, Group Human Resources, Roche
Holding Group 2007–2012
* Director, Talent Management, Roche Diagnostics Operations US, 2007
* Manager, Human Resources Operations US, 2005–2006
1996–2005 Texas Instruments
* Human Resources Manager, High Performance Analog, 2001–2005
* Strategic Staffing Manager, Student Program & University Relations,
1999–2001
* Mergers & Acquisitions Project Manager, Human Resources, 1998–1999
* Senior International Assignments Specialist, 1996–1997
1992–1996 Branch Manager, Spherion Corporation

1992–1994 Account Executive, Trade Insurance Services

About Nokia

At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together.

As a B2B technology innovation leader, we are pioneering networks that sense,
think and act by leveraging our work across mobile, fixed and cloud networks.
In addition, we create value with intellectual property and long-term
research, led by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs, which is celebrating 100
years of innovation.

With truly open architectures that seamlessly integrate into any ecosystem,
our high-performance networks create new opportunities for monetization and
scale. Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia to
deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and work with us
to create the digital services and applications of the future.

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