Chief Corporate Development Officer

b. 1979

Konstanty Owczarek is Chief Corporate Development Officer at Nokia, overseeing Nokia’s Corporate Development Organization.

Konstanty brings more than 20 years of experience, increasing value across a diverse set of industries with focus on AI infrastructure, technology and financial services, with a unique combination of expertise spanning corporate development, investment banking, strategy, investing and broadly finance. At Nokia, he leads the Corporate Development Organization to accelerate Nokia’s strategy evolution and execution, and oversees the teams working to support Nokia’s business development, mergers and acquisitions, integration, incubation activities and strategic partnerships.

Before joining Nokia, he consulted large technology companies and global investors at the intersection of technology, AI and capital. Prior to that, he held executive positions at HPE’s High Performance Compute, AI & Labs business, where he led strategy and business development, including the strategic pivot to Generative AI, as well as product life cycle management and other operating management. Before HPE, he was the Global Head of Strategy and Innovation for AIG’s Life and Retirement business and held other senior positions in corporate development and strategy. Prior to AIG, he spent 10+ years of career in investment banking and strategy in New York City working on global M&A, activism and strategic investments with large corporates and global investors.

Konstanty holds a Master’s degree in Finance and Banking from the University of Lodz in Poland, during which he completed an exchange as a Danish Government Scholar at Copenhagen Business School. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Emory University in the US, where he was the Ambassadorial Rotary Scholar.

He is based in the United States where he lives with his wife in three children. Outside his day-to-day job, Konstanty enjoys sailing, sports and traveling with family.

Career history:

• 2024–2025 Managing Partner and Founder, KJO Advisors LLC
• 2022–2024 Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Operating Officer, HPC, AI and Labs, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• 2020–2022 Global Head of Strategy and Innovation, President of New Markets, AIG Life, American International Group, Inc.
• 2018–2020 Head of M&A and Strategy, AIG Life & Retirement, American International Group, Inc.
• 2015–2017 Managing Director, AIG Corporate Development, American International Group, Inc.
• 2009–2015 Co-Founder, Strategic Risk Capital Advisors, LLC
• 2004–2009 Associate and Vice President, Integrated Finance Ltd. (IFL) / Marakon Associates
• 2003–2004 Analyst, Technology, Media and Telecom Group, Bear Stearns & Co.