Knut Fredrik Idestam is the Founder of Nokia. He was a Finnish mining engineer and businessman who founded Nokia. In May 1865, Idestam was granted permission to build a groundwood paper mill in Tampere, Finland. Leopold Henrik Stanislaus Mechelin was a politician, professor, liberal reformer, and businessman from Finland. During the country's oppressive years, Ulrik Wilhelm Eduard Polón was a Finnish business leader and a political patriot. Under his leadership, the country's rubber industry was established. Suomen Kumitehdas Oy, or the Finnish Rubber Company, was founded, CEO, Chairman of the Board, and majority shareholder by him.