Leadership
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This time next week NTT DATA UK will have a new CEO following the firm's confirmation today that Simon Williams is to step down.
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Telness Tech has named its first head of product who will be responsible for driving the product and customer experience offering, while growing the brand in its native Sweden and abroad.
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DISH Network has a new president and COO, following the promotion of John Swieringa.
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Manon Brouillette, the former CEO of Canadian cable and telecoms company Vidéotron, is the new COO of Verizon’s Consumer Group and will be deputy to CEO Ronan Dunne.
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As many as 11 academics, lawyers, philosophers and private sector leaders in AI and data have been recruited to Orange's new Ethics Council.
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Infovista has named Kristian Thyregod as its new president of global enterprise and a member of the executive leadership team.
Forthcoming events
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Supporting its commitment to the full fibre connectivity, TalkTalk Group has appointed Ruth Kennedy to the newly created role of group fibre development director.
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eStruxture has named M&A specialist Marie-Josée Lapierre as its new senior vice-president, general counsel and corporate secretary.
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Tony O’Sullivan has been promoted to CEO of RETN, taking over from Dmitry Samarin, one of the company's founders.
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NTT has named its new global CEO following the news that Jason Goodall is to step down next year.
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The CEO of NTT Ltd. Global, Jason Goodall, is to retire at the end of June 2021 after 23 years with the company.
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STC’s chief executive officer, Nasser Al Nasser, has resigned from his role, effective 28 March 2021.
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Comcast has promoted Rich Jennings to the position of president of Comcast Cable’s West Division.
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Cable and mobile services provider Millicom has appointed a new executive vice president and chief external affairs officer.
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The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) has appointed the first female secretary-general in its 120-year history.
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MTN Group has announced two major appointments, including a new group executive committee position.
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Asian data centre player Big Data Exchange (BDx) has appointed a new executive to “strategically lead and execute operations”.
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Global Switch has appointed a new chief operations offer and chief legal officer as the company executes on its global expansion and growth strategy.
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Verizon’s former EVP of global field operations and assurance has been appointed to Hylan’s board of directors.
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Cloud networking provider GTT Communications Inc (NYSE: GTT) has appointed former Telstra and GCX executive Tom Homer to head its sales and client services operation for the Europe and Middle East and Africa region (EMEA).
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The former Corporate Controller for Minerva Networks has re-joined the company as CFO following confirmation that John Doerner is to retire.
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Ekinops has appointed a new CTO and vice president of research and development to strengthen the firm’s “technology vision”, accelerate software innovation and lead its engineering and support teams.
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Three UK has confirmed two senior appointments as it positions to capitalise on the B2B market and new carrier services.
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Avaya has appointed its first chief revenue officer (CRO), who will take “full ownership” for the firm’s financials.
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Leaseweb Global has promoted Marilou van Doorn to the position of chief operating officer (COO), as the company renewed its focus to drive operations across the product portfolio, with emphasis on its hybrid cloud offering.
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The fibre infrastructure company Segra has named its new COO, who will lead network operations centres, network planning, customer service centres and service delivery.
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FirstLight has expanded its executive leadership team with three new appointments.
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Former Cisco and Inmarsat exec Julio Villafañe, has been appointed to head regional sales activities for Ribbon Communications Inc.
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Keri Gilder has joined the European competitive telecommunications association (ecta) CEO Council following her appointment to the position of CEO at Colt Technology Systems.
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Telia Company has appointed Per Christian Mørland to the position of group CFO, and Dr. Rainer Deutschmann to the position of group COO.