Nokia Siemens appoints ex-Alcatel-Lucent execMarc Rouanne will head up Nokia Siemens’s radio access business.
Nokia Siemens Networks Monday announced it has appointed Marc Rouanne as head of its radio access business unit.
Rouanne joins the vendor from rival Alcatel-Lucent, where he headed up the company’s convergence business group. However, Rouanne quietly left his post at Alcatel-Lucent at the beginning of 2008.
“[Rouanne] brings with him exceptional experience, having been part of the team that created GSM technology,” said Mika Vehviläinen, COO of Nokia Siemens Networks, in a statement.
Before joining Alcatel in 1998 as vice president of operations at its mobile networks division, Rouanne developed GSM products as part of Matra Communication’s R&D team, and then as director of network engineering for Nortel Matra Cellular.
Nokia Siemens said it will benefit from Rouanne’s extensive experience in working with joint ventures.
The appointment comes as Ari Lehtoranta the vendor’s current head of radio access has decided to take a leave of absence for personal reasons.
The loss of Rouanne from Alcatel-Lucent earlier this year marked another executive departure from the Franco-American company.
In 2007 its chief administrative officer Frank D’Amelio, and Mike Quigley, president of science, technology and strategy both resigned. Then, two months later chief financial officer Jean-Pascal Beaufret followed them out the door. And Jean-Christophe Giroux, head of Alcatel-Lucent’s communications technology group, was reassigned in January.
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