Nokia

Harri Männistö

Harri Männistö is the Director, Head of Watch new, part of Nokia’s Multimedia Business Group.

Harri’s professional experience is composed of roughly two decades within Nokia and one decade in TeliaSonera, a Nordic/Baltic Telecommunications service provider and network operator.

Männistö has held various positions at Nokia including, product management, strategic marketing and general management - in Nokia Networks since 1980 and more recently in Nokia Multimedia.

In his current role in Nokia Multimedia, Männistö leads personal mobile TV and video consumption related activities addressing mobile telecom, internet and broadcasting sectors globally.

While at TeliaSonera, Männistö had Sonera business ownership and Board of Directors responsibilities of a dozen mobile operators worldwide. He also successfully led pre- and post-merger product management of the TeliaSonera group.

Having been exposed to the digital mobile industry from its beginning, Männistö has been extensively involved in driving to reality a global mass market for GSM-based personal mobile telephony, and thereafter its evolution and convergence with digital multimedia consumption.