Yet another veteran of Nokia’s pioneering NFC program has left the Finland-based device maker, with the departure of Jarkko Sevanto, who is heading up mobile-contactless programs for Visa in Asia Pacific, Central Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Sevanto had been serving as senior manager for industry collaboration for Nokia since August 2011. Before that, he was senior manager for NFC business development for Southeast Asia, working out of Singapore, Visa AP’s base, between early 2008 and mid-2011. He had headed product management for Nokia’s NFC devices starting in mid-2004.

Nokia’s once-proud NFC program has taken other hits over the years, with voluntary departures and layoffs. It takes no leadership role in the NFC Forum, as before.

Mikko Saarisalo, who played a key role in developing the NFC technology Nokia used in its first devices–and who served as vice chairman of the NFC Forum, had left Nokia in November of 2011 to join U.S.-based mobile-wallet provider C-SAM as vice president of engineering and delivery. He departed C-SAM in December of 2012, after only one year.

Gerhard Romen, who was point man for Nokia’s market outreach for NFC, from 2003 to 2007; then serving as director of mobile financial services for the device maker, left Nokia last September to become a consultant.

Earlier departures included Jeremy Belostock, who was head of NFC for four years starting in January 2008. He left in February of 2012 to serve as director of group strategy at France-based mailroom equipment maker Neopost. And Andrea Bacioccola, who was head of mobile payments and NFC at Nokia before leaving in August 2012. He’s now with a consultant with Northstream in Sweden.

Damien Balsan, Nokia’s head of NFC business development for the Americas, left in the fall of 2011 to join PayPal as director of ecosystem partnerships. He left PayPal in March to co-found a mobile-commerce startup, ActPay.

Long gone from Nokia’s NFC program are Heikki Huomo, who did some of the original NFC radio work on Nokia phones to read tags and Janne Jalkanen, NFC technology architect for Nokia series 60, Symbian, phones, while Hannu Sauvala, who handled certification and standardization for NFC phones, remains at Nokia.

Other earlier departures, in the U.S., were Tom Zalewski, strategy director; and Michael Garguilo, technical solutions manager, for Nokia Ventures. Both went on to Venyon, Nokia’s trusted service manager joint venture with Giesecke & Devrient before becoming consultants. Zalewski left consultancy and now works for TSM CorFire. Hank Chavers, a project manager and technology analyst for Nokia in the U.S., and who served on working groups and committees of the NFC Forum, also became a consultant.