A lean team in Telenor’s new Nordic Hub will work to strengthen key areas such as 5G, IoT, and the business and SME segment across the company’s Nordic markets, announced Telenor this week.
EVP Jukka Leinonen will continue is his roles as Head of Nordics and CEO of DNA in Finland. Jesper Hansen, current CEO of Telenor Denmark, will join as the Nordic Hub’s COO, effective 1 August.
Working closely with the company’s Nordic CEOs, the Nordic Hub team will facilitate greater collaboration across the region, fostering growth and competitiveness.
Jukka Leinonen will continue to represent Nordics on Telenor’s Group Executive Management team. Jesper Hansen, current CEO of Telenor Denmark, will join the Nordic Hub as its COO, effective 1 August. Hansen will be succeeded by Lars Thomsen (Acting Head of Commercial & Strategy), who will step down from Telenor’s Group Executive Management team to take on the CEO role in his native country, Denmark. Anne Kvam, Head of Corporate Affairs, also steps out of Telenor’s Group Executive Management team. She will take on the responsibility to launch Telenor Group’s strategy and platform for achieving its climate ambitions, announced at the Capital Market Day in March.
Jukka Leinonen, Head of the Nordics
With a strong presence in the four Nordic markets, we are pursuing further growth opportunities across the region, through best-practice sharing, resource pooling and scaling of innovative products and solutions.
Sigve Brekke, President & CEO, Telenor Group
With Jukka at the helm of this united and collaborative force, we are well-positioned as a strong Nordic telco competitor.
