Finnish telecoms company Nokia on Monday said Pekka Lundmark would step down as CEO, and that it has appointed Justin Hotard to take over his role. Hotard, who will take up the position on April 1, is currently the executive vice president and general manager of Data Center & AI Group at Intel,

AI expert Justin Hotard is to become CEO of Nokia. He is to continue the Group's realignment in fields such as data centers and AI.

It is not just the connectivity inside the data center, but the connectivity across data centers. I think there will be opportunities in mobile networks as well. I look forward to seeing that close (Infinera acquisition),