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Simo Vuorilehto

Finnish business executive (1930–2024)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ7518082 ↗
Source-derived summary

Simo Vuorilehto, titled Vuorineuvos, (8 August 1930 – 13 June 2024) was a Finnish businessman who was the chairman and CEO of Nokia Corporation. He became the chairman and CEO in 1988 after the death of Kari Kairamo. In 1990 he was replaced as chairman by Mika Tiivola. He remained CEO until 1992 when he was succeeded by Jorma Ollila. Vuorilehto died on 13 June 2024, at the age of 93.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Simo Vuorilehto” is finnish business executive (1930–2024). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Simo, Vuorilehto and Finnish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1930, 2024, 1988, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1930-08-08. For this dossier, Simo, Vuorilehto and Finnish is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7518082. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1930, 2024, 1988 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “Simo Vuorilehto” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.