Nokia is losing another top executive as Maria Varsellona, who serves as its chief legal officer and president of Nokia Technologies, is leaving the Finnish-based equipment vendor later this year. She will be joining Swiss-based technology provider ABB as general counsel and company secretary.

Varsellona has served as Nokia’s chief legal officer since mid-2014, and took on the president of Nokia Technologies role last year. The vendor is re-appropriating those roles to separate executives.

Jenni Lukander, who is currently head of patent business, will become president of Nokia Technologies effective August 1. The move to appoint an executive who is dedicated to this role reflects the growing importance of the Technologies division, which develops consumer products and licenses technology including the Nokia brand.

Profitability improved in both the Networks division and Nokia Technologies in the fourth quarter of 2018. During the vendor’s most recent results presentation, CEO Rajeev Suri pointed to ongoing measures to build a strong licensing business.

Lukander certainly has a solid track record in this field: she joined Nokia in 2007, and has led patent licensing, litigation, competition law, and other regulatory matters. Nokia also described her as an internationally renowned IP and competition law professional.

Nassib Abou-Khalil, currently deputy chief legal officer for business, has been tapped for the chief legal officer role. Notably, he led the integration of the compliance programs of Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia following the latter’s acquisition of the former.

“Jenni and Nassib are ideally positioned for their new roles,” Suri said in a statement. “Both are strong leaders with deep expertise and track records of performance. I want to thank Maria for her many contributions to Nokia. She leaves us with my respect and gratitude for her leadership over the last six years.”

Lukander and Abou-Khalil are also joining Nokia’s leadership team, which has recently seen a number of changes. For example, Sandra Motley, president of fixed networks, and Tommi Uitto, president of mobile networks, were both appointed to the leadership team earlier this year. That move followed the decision to scrap plans to create a single access networks division that included both fixed networks and mobile networks business groups. At the time, Nokia explained that “other means of collaboration between mobile networks, fixed networks, and Nokia Bell Labs focused on developing common technological and architectural leadership have been set up.”

Nokia late last year also said it would eliminate thousands of jobs as part of a major restructuring the company was embarking upon to reduce nearly $800 million in costs by 2020.