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Stephen Elop

1963 - Today

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Stephen Elop (born 31 December 1963) is a Canadian businessman who most recently worked at Australian telecom company Telstra from April 2016. In the past he had worked for Nokia as its first non-Finnish CEO and later as Executive Vice President, Devices & Services, as well as the head of the Microsoft Business Division, as the COO of Juniper Networks, as the president of worldwide field operations at Adobe Systems, in several senior positions in Macromedia and as the CIO at Boston Chicken.He is best known for his ill-fated tenure as Nokia CEO from 2010 to 2014, which included controversies such as the "burning platform" memo and the company's partnership with Microsoft, resulting in the move to Windows Phone software exclusivity. He was criticised for some of his decisions, which resulted in the company suffering massive losses both financially and in market share. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen Elop has received more than 469,459 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Stephen Elop is the 749th most popular businessperson (down from 629th in 2019), the 783rd most popular biography from Canada (down from 694th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Canadian Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 470k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Stephen Elops by language

Over the past year Stephen Elop has had the most page views in the with 37,480 views, followed by Finnish (5,799), and Russian (4,788). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kurdish (Sorani) (105.74%), Latvian (52.73%), and Russian (13.19%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Stephen Elop ranks 749 out of 847. Before him are Jodie Marsh, Marco Mattiacci, John Bryson, Ameera al-Taweel, Jared Isaacman, and Yang Huiyan. After him are Leslie Benzies, Nick Fry, Dasha Zhukova, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Ellen Stewart, and Maryana Iskander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Stephen Elop ranks 673. Before him are Tudor Casapu, Douglas Wakiihuri, Hardcore Holly, Christian Perez, Sławomir Skrzypek, and Daniel Mojon. After him are Derrick May, Miriam Blasco, Rachel Whiteread, Tõnu Trubetsky, José Zalazar, and Péter Fülöp Kocsis.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Stephen Elop ranks 783 out of 1,622. Before him are Peter New (1971), Bruce Fairbairn (1949), Myriam Bédard (1969), Philip J. Currie (1949), Joël Lautier (1973), and Christina Cox (1971). After him are Sylvia Fedoruk (1927), Eddie Shore (1902), Dylan Neal (1969), Lisa Jakub (1978), Irving Kaplansky (1917), and William Edmond Logan (1798).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Canada

Among businesspeople born in Canada, Stephen Elop ranks 7. Before him are Elizabeth Arden (1878), Joe Weider (1919), Lawrence Stroll (1959), Guy Laliberté (1959), Samuel Cunard (1787), and David Baszucki (1963). After him are Jade Raymond (1975), and Andrea Jung (1959).

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