NEW YORK - Thomson Reuters has named Taneli Ruda, most recently a VP at mobile phone vendor Nokia, as SVP of strategy for the company's Tax & Accounting business, a newly created position. Ruda's appointment comes at a time that the company has been expanding globally with products such as Checkpoint Learning and the OneSource Global Tax Workstation.

Besides rolling out global products, Thomson signaled its plans to expand into Latin America this year. In March, it announced that Jon Baron, who had headed its software operations in Dexter, Mich. (the former Creative Solutions operations), had been named as president of the Americas, workflow and service solutions.