New Delhi: Nordic carrier Finnair's board
today named Mika Vehvilainen, a veteran from Nokia responsible
for the telecom major's business development in Asia, as its
new President and CEO.
Vehvilainen has been with Nokia since 1991 and is
currently Chief Operating Officer of Nokia Siemens Networks.
He has strong experience of sales and marketing and of
strategic management and business development in Asia, which
happens to be Finnair's focus market.
Forty per cent of Finnair's revenues come from Asian
traffic, with India being one the top growth markets.
The Finnish flag carrier flies daily to New Delhi from
Helsinki and operates a second service between Helsinki and
Mumbai.
"Finnair has all that it takes to emerge from the hard
times as a winner, but this will require goal-directed
development of the business practices," Vehvilainen, who will
take charge in January next year, said in a statement.
Finnair's current President and CEO Jukka Hienonen will
leave his post at the end of January 2010.
Bureau Report
First Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 19:10