Former Ericsson executive Nishant Batra to join Nokia as chief strategy and technology officer

STOCKHOLM: Nokia on Thursday named Nishant Batra as chief strategy and technology officer and member of its group leadership team, effective Jan. 18.

Batra, who is currently CTO at auto technology group Veoneer and previously worked for many years at Ericsson, will be based initially in Finland and then move to the United States.

Batra spent more than a decade at Ericsson and has been CTO at Veoneer since 2018.