Stephen Elop was Nokia's second choice for CEO, says ex-chairman

Stephen Elop left Microsoft just over three years ago to become the chief executive of Nokia, but he wasn't first choice for the job. Jorma Ollila, ex-chairman of Nokia who led the search for a new CEO in 2010, claims that he interviewed five candidates in the US for the job, The Wall Street Journal reports. Ollila's primary choice was a candidate who was number two "at a well-known American technology company." The mystery candidate isn't named, only described as in his 50s, but he's said to have bowed out of the application process due to personal reasons.

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