Justin Hotard

Career

1. 2025 – now
   Nokiasrc
   President & CEO
   Announced 2025-02-10, started 2025-04-01, succeeding Pekka Lundmark; interim head of Mobile Infrastructure from 2026-01-01
2. 2024 – 2025
   Intelsrc
   EVP & General Manager, Data Center & AI Group
3. 2021 – 2024
   Hewlett Packard Enterprisesrc
   EVP & General Manager, High-Performance Computing, AI & Labs
4. 2019 – 2020
   Hewlett Packard Enterprisesrc
   SVP, President and Managing Director, HPE Japan and China
5. 2017 – 2019
   Hewlett Packard Enterprisesrc
   SVP & General Manager, Volume Global Business Unit
6. 2015 – 2016
   Hewlett Packard Enterprisesrc
   VP, Strategy, Planning & Operations, Data Center Infrastructure Group
7. 2013 – 2014
   NCR Corporationsrc
   President & General Manager, Global Small Business Cloud Platform
8. 2012 – 2013
   NCR Corporationsrc
   VP, Corporate Development
9. 2010 – 2012
   NCR Corporationsrc
   VP & General Manager, NCR Entertainment
10. 2007 – 2010
    NCR Corporationsrc
    Senior Director, Mergers & Acquisitions
11. 2005 – 2007
    Symbol Technologiessrc
    Director, Product Management
12. 2003 – 2005
    Symbol Technologiessrc
    Senior Manager, Corporate Development
13. 2002 – 2003
    Surface Logixsrc
    Business Development Analyst
14. 1996 – 2000
    Motorolasrc
    Senior Systems Engineer

Not located: 2000-2002 not described in the 20-F (the MIT Sloan MBA, class of 2002 per WS-wiki, falls in it); the 20-F gives 2016-2017 as the seam between two HPE roles without a gap

Achievements

• Hired from Intel to run Nokia from 2025-04-01 on the same salary and incentive levels as his predecessor, with the brief of growing AI and data-center businesssrc
• In his first year Nokia closed the EUR 2.5bn Infinera acquisition, announced a $1bn NVIDIA investment and AI-RAN partnership (October 2025), and set a new strategy at the November 2025 Capital Markets Daysrc
• Cut Nokia from four business groups to two operating segments (Network Infrastructure, Mobile Infrastructure) from 2026-01-01, and runs Mobile Infrastructure himself on an interim basissrc
• At HPE, ran the high-performance computing and AI unit that delivered the first exascale supercomputer for the US Department of Energysrc
• Put EUR 2.82m of his own money into Nokia shares in June 2025 under the co-investment plan and bought 84,404 more on Nasdaq Helsinki at EUR 9.15 on 2026-04-28src

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, BS Electrical Engineering (1997)src
• MIT Sloan School of Management, MBA (2002)src

Background

• Other American national per the 20-F, which gives a year of birth rather than an age, so no age is recorded here. The 20-F does not address family relationships among officerssrc
• Boards Listed as a member of the European Round Table for Industry (ERT)src
• Other Service agreement: 12 months' notice either way; on termination without cause, 12 months' compensation including incentives, with unvested equity forfeited unless the Board decides otherwisesrc
• In the press Public voice for removing 'high-risk vendors' from European networks and for more EU investment in digital infrastructure (CNBC interviews, April and September 2026)src