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unusual facts about Pekka Ala-Pietilä


Blyk

Blyk was founded by two Finns, Pekka Ala-Pietilä (formerly president of Nokia) and Antti Öhrling (ex-chairman and founder of the Contra advertising group).


Malcolm Quantrill

He was the first person to write critical monographs in any language on three individual Finnish modernist architects, Alvar Aalto - Alvar Aalto: A Critical Study (1983) - Reima Pietilä - Reima Pietilä: Architecture, Context, Modernism (1985) - and Juha Leiviskä - Juha Leiviska and the Continuity of Finnish Modern Architecture (2001).

Marko Ahtisaari

In 2006 he left Nokia and joined his former boss, Nokia CEO Pekka Ala-Pietilä to start an advertisement-supported mobile network Blyk.

Pietilä

Bonita Pietila, Finnish American casting director and producer for The Simpsons


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