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Matti Alahuhta was appointed to the Board on 1st February 2006. He is also president and chief executive of Kone Corporation. Kone is one of the world's largest elevator manufacturers with annual sales of £2 billion global operations and 27 000 employees.
Prior to that he worked at Nokia Corporation for more than 20 years. His most recent roles at Nokia were: executive vice-president and chief strategy officer; president mobile phones; then president telecommunications.
Matti is foundation board chairman of the International Institute for Management Development and chairman of Technology Industries of Finland Centennial Foundation. A Finnish citizen he is aged 55.
Key to membership of principal Board committees:
(b) Audit
(c) Remuneration
(d) Nominating
(e) Community Support
(f) Pension Scheme Performance Review Group
(g) Equality of Access Board
All the non-executive directors are considered independent of the management of the company. | 