Alcatel-Lucent Australasia head, Hilary Mine, to leave

Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 19 November 2008 09:27

IT Industry - Strategy

Hilary Mine, head of Alcatel for Australasia and North Asia will leave the company for personal reasons before Christmas. She will be replaced by Andrew Butterworth as acting country senior officer for Australasia and by Sean Dolan, based in Hong Kong, as acting regional unit leader responsible for Australasia and North Asia.

Butterworth is currently VP of Alcatel-Lucent Australasian Services business group and as such responsible for the bulk of the company's revenue and employees in the two countries.

Dolan is presently COO for Asia Pacific in which role he has been reporting direct to Mine. "He has been my number two for the past year, taking on this new role really is a no-brainer for him," Mine said.

Mine said the 'acting' roles of her successors did not necessarily indicate that these were interim appointments, but that they could not be confirmed while amajor global restructuring, announced this week by CEO Ben Verwaayen, is underway. "I expect both of them to be confirmed," she said.

Mine said she was "very excited about this re-organisation, believing it would greatly empower the local teams and enable it to fully exploit the merger between Alcatel and Lucent that took place in late 2006.

Mine was appointed head of Alcatel Australia and New Zealand three years ago and, following the merger with Lucent Technologies has for the past year also had responsibility for North Asia.

When she was appointed she was the first woman to hold the role and the first CEO of Alcatel Australia who had not come up through the local ranks with an engineering background in a company with a long tradition as an engineering organisation.
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