Rajeev Suri

Rajeev Suri (born 10 October 1967) is an Indian born Singaporean business executive. He has been the CEO of Inmarsat since February 2021.^[3] From April 2014 to July 2020, Suri was the CEO of Nokia.^[4][5] Before being appointed to this position, he was the CEO of Nokia Solutions and Networks (from 2009). Suri has held various positions within Nokia since 1995.^[6][7]

Rajeev Suri
Suri in 2016
Born	(1967-10-10) 10 October 1967 (age 57) New Delhi, India
Citizenship	Singaporean[1]
Alma mater	Manipal Institute of Technology (BE)[2]
Title	CEO, Inmarsat
Spouse	Nina Suri ​ (m. 1992)​
Children	2

Early life

Rajeev Suri was born on 10 October 1967 in New Delhi, India, and was raised in Kuwait.^[8] He is a Singaporean citizen. Suri has a bachelor of engineering degree in electronics and communications from Manipal Institute of Technology, which was then affiliated to Mangalore University.^[1][9]

Career

Suri joined Nokia in 1995.^[10] He followed Simon Beresford-Wylie as the CEO of NSN in October 2009 after Nokia Networks and Siemens Networks was merged.

In April 2014, Suri was appointed as the CEO of Nokia.^[5]

In March 2020, it was announced that Suri would step down as CEO of Nokia.^[11][12] He was replaced by Pekka Lundmark in August 2020.^[13]

On 24 February 2021, Suri was appointed as the CEO of Inmarsat, replacing Rupert Pearce.^[3]

On 29 November 2023. Suri was appointed as the new Chairman of Digicel Group.^[14]

Personal life

Suri is based in Singapore and London.^{[15][16][17][18]} He is married to Nina Alag Suri, a businesswoman and the founder and CEO of Singaporean startup X0pa.ai.^[19] They have two sons.^[20]