Mika Saarela

Mika Saarela is a highly experienced Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, having joined the company in July 2014 to enhance product creation processes for Surface products as part of the Microsoft Devices PMO team. Prior to Microsoft, Mika served in various roles at Nokia from June 1998 to June 2014, including Senior Manager of Operational Development for Nokia Lumia Engineering and Head of Product HW Validation & Analysis, focusing on product validation and testing processes. Mika also worked as a Manager for HW Validation, ensuring consistent operations across global productization locations, and held several engineering and quality management positions, emphasizing product reliability and testing. Mika holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oulu, obtained between 1990 and 1998.