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Shell names Jorma Ollila as new chairman

Financial Times: Shell names Jorma Ollila as new chairman

“The group lags behind competitors such as BP and ExxonMobil in production growth, faces lawsuits in the US over false reserves statements and announced a $10bn cost overrun at Sakhalin-2, its flagship Russian project.”

By Gordon Smith: Published: August 4 2005

Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday named Jorma Ollila, the current chief executive and chairman of Nokia, as a replacement for Aad Jacobs, its outgoing chairman.

Mr Ollila earlier this week outlined his plans to step down from the Finnish telecommunications group, where he has served as chief executive for the last 13 years.

The move follows calls by Aad Jacobs last month for his successor to be neither British nor Dutch following the unification of the oil group after 98 years trading as separate British and Dutch businesses. read more

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Nokia’s Ollila to Join Shell As Nonexecutive Chairman

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Nokia’s Ollila to Join Shell As Nonexecutive Chairman

Thursday 4 August 2005

A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE NEWS ROUNDUP
August 4, 2005 4:16 a.m.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Royal Dutch Shell PLC appointed the departing chief executive of Nokia Corp. to be its nonexecutive chairman as of June 2006.

Jorma Ollila, the longtime CEO who helped make Nokia the world’s No. 1 mobile-phone producer, is leaving the Finnish company after 20 years, 13 of them in the top job.
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He will replace Add Jacobs at Shell.

Mr. Ollila is widely credited for streamlining management and instituting training programs that have kept Nokia the most popular employer in Finland. read more

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