First things first... Elop is Canadian. Microsoft is indeed American; but Elop was invited to Nokia by the Nokia board first. He made the decision to bring in the Americans; blame the shared border perhaps? Not unless you're going to go for the semantic proper use of American, meaning North American in this sense. Lack of North/South typically denotes that you mean a person from the United States of America. Either way, the Finnish board brought in the North American Elop from Canada and allowed him to make those decisions that brought in the North American company Microsoft from the United States of America which led to a huge set of layoffs in Finland, a write-off in the United States of America and a prior Microsoft CEO to be replaced with the current one that's in place and seems to have a rather limited like/use for the Lumia brand - denoted by the lack of Lumia flagship at the moment. Hopefully Nokia will come back. It can be done right. No more Canadian or US citizens at the helm of a Finnish company perhaps?