Nokia just announced that Henry Tirri has been appointed executive vice president, Chief Technology Officer and a member of the Nokia Leadership Team, effective September 22, 2011. He reports directly to President and CEO Stephen Elop.

Before joining Nokia, Henry Tirri was Professor of Computer Science at the Department, where he also got his PhD.

As Nokia's CTO, Tirri is now charged with setting Nokia's technology agenda both now and in the future, and driving core innovation to enable business development opportunities. Tirri will be based in Sunnyvale, California.

See Nokia's press release for more information. Henry's old web page at the department is still there, but with little updates after leaving to Nokia.

Editor: Hannu Toivonen