30 September 2008

Nokia's Chief Technology Officer Bob Iannucci
Resigns For Personal Reasons

According to Reuters’s Tarmo Virki, Nokia's Chief Technology Officer Bob Iannucci will step down from his position for personal reasons effective immediately, a spokesman for the world's top cell-phone maker said on Monday.

Iannucci, who started as a CTO at the Finnish handset maker in January, will continue to work as an adviser to the company, while it will review the need for the CTO role in the future, the spokesman said.

Bob Iannucci has been in the IT industry for the last three decades. Bob joined Nokia in 2004 as Head of Nokia Research Center's Computing Architectures Laboratory.

Before joining Nokia, he held a variety of research and development management positions at Cosine Communications, Compaq, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Exa Corporation, and IBM.

Since Jan. 1, he was the new chief technology officer of Nokia. He is also the first member of the board who is not based in Finland, remaining in Palo Alto, California, where he has headed the Nokia Research Center since 2004.