Inseego announced various appointments and operational changes as it consolidates its recent acquisition of Nokia’s fixed wireless business.

The American broadband vendor appointed two Nokia veterans to its executive suite. Pranav Shroff will join the firm as SVP and managing director for India and Asia-Pacific (APAC) sales. Shroff, who most recently served as marketing director for pharma firm Eli Lilly, boasts product experience at Apple and Microsoft.

A decade long stint at Nokia makes up the biggest patch on his CV. Following an engineering role at Indian giant Wipro, Shroff joined the Finnish vendor as a consultant in 2003, before becoming R&D lead in 2007. More management roles in product development beckoned, before Shroff became head of product marketing for all Nokia devices launched in India.

Shroff then joined Microsoft in 2013 as product marketing head for its Lumia smartphone, before taking a turn in Taiwan in 2016 for a four-year stint as head of global product for HMD Global.

Shroff then enjoyed a SVP for marketing position for Indian telco Airtel, before becoming head of product marketing for Apple in 2022. He’d eventually ascend to a marketing director role for almost two years at the consumer tech giant.

Inseego is also welcoming Ossi Korpela as SVP and managing director for Europe, Middle-East, and Africa (EMEA) sales.

Korpela’s career began with a 12-year tenure at Nokia, starting in London in 2002. Leaving his sales role in the U.K., Korpela would transition to Scandinavia as an account manager in 2006, before progressing to a Norway-based global account director position almost four years later.

He would leave Nokia in 2014 as its GM for the region, taking on a similar role at Microsoft for almost three years.

Coincidentally, Korpela would also join HMD Global, albeit as part of its German operations. He left this GM role for a similar one at Porsche Finland. Since leaving that position in June 2025, Korpela has worked as a growth advisor.

Inseego Chief Commercial Officer Steve Harmon also saw his role expanded to now lead Americas sales, including the vendor's expansion into Latin America.

"Our commitment to building a global business is reflected in the strength of the team we are putting in place," Inseego CEO Juho Sarvikas noted in a statement. "[Harmon] has built a disciplined commercial engine in North America, [Korpela] brings deep knowledge of the European operator landscape, and [Shroff] brings the regional insight, senior operator relationships, and technology depth we need across APAC."

The CEO added the two new appointees join Inseego “in these pivotal roles to drive the business forward, having worked with them in the past, I am confident they will have an impact in our international growth strategy.”

"APAC is one of the most dynamic connectivity markets in the world, with enormous opportunity across fixed wireless access, mobile broadband, and enterprise wireless," Shroff said. "Inseego has the technology, customer relationships, and momentum to play an important role in this region. I am excited to work with our teams and leading global carriers to build the next chapter of growth."

On his appointment, Korpela commented: "European operators are at the center of the fixed-wireless access opportunity, and they value partners they can trust. I am joining Inseego to help ensure that customers who built their businesses on this technology have continuity and a clear path forward, and to help bring Inseego's solution to consumers and businesses across EMEA."

Inseego here we go

Inseego also announced Amsterdam as its center for international operations, while establishing a key engineering center in Athens, Greece. The European footprint sees the San Diego-headquartered firm make firm on its promise to go global with the acquisition of its shiny new fixed wireless wares.

Sarvikas commented on the expansion that “the combination of … a strong engineering presence in Greece and a new center for international operations in Amsterdam, sets the right foundation to drive growth and support customers around the world.”

"Amsterdam gives Inseego an efficient, well-connected base for supporting international customers and scaling our operations across Europe and beyond," Inseego CFO Steven Gatoff added. "As we expand globally, we are focused on building a business infrastructure that supports customer continuity, operational discipline, and long-term growth."

Inseego acquired Nokia’s Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) CPE business earlier this year as the Finnish giant continues full steam ahead with its AI infra pivot. That pivot saw Nokia split its operational model into three operating segments: Network Infrastructure, Mobile Infrastructure, and the smaller Portfolio Businesses unit, into which Nokia integrated its FWA business.

Under the Inseego deal, Nokia will receive an approximate 7% equity stake in Inseego in the form of common stock and warrants to the estimated tune of $20 million. Additionally, the networking vendor will make an additional $10 million investment in Inseego in the form of common stock and warrants, bringing its total ownership interest to around 11%.

At the time, Nokia said the Inseego deal left it free to focus on infrastructure innovation in the AI era, while explaining Inseego’s “very deep expertise in wireless broadband and the wireless edge” made it a good fit for the sell off.

Inseego’s Sarvikas told this title that he expected a “massive” expansion in 6G total addressable market (TAM) alongside a focus on new AI edge-driven business opportunities.

“With 6G you will see tenfold performance, latency improvements, and more efficiency in terms of how many FWA-like connections you can deploy out there in the marketplace,” Sarvikas said. “Now that that performance reaches a threshold where it is a very competitive alternative, even to fiber, I expect that both the addressable market and the number of deployments will scale dramatically.

“We will be in a great position to capture the 6G supercycle at the end of the decade," the CEO claimed.