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Alcatel has named a marketing & PR executive from its US operation, Hilary Mine, as CEO for Australasia to replace Andrew Young who has "decided to leave Alcatel".
The company appeared to be trying to play down the announcement, issuing a press release under the vague heading "Alcatel announces executive appointment in Asia Pacific region".
The new CEO is currently senior vice president of marketing, communications and channel management, North America, based in Plano Texas. She has held the role since joining Alcatel in 2002.
She will take up her new role on 1 October and is the first non-local executive, and the first woman, to head the company. All previous appointments for many years past have been internal promotions. Young was a partial exception: he worked for Alcatel Australia from the 1970s until the late 1990s when he left to become president of Alcatel Taiwan. He was head of Alcatel Shanghai Bell before returning to Australia in January 2004. Both these organisations, and the Alcatel Australia in which he spent much of his career, were primarily manufacturing companies. Alcatel Australasia today is a very different beast focussed on sales, outsourced network management and software development. Manufacturing has ceased.
The Australasian CEO role encompasses Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. It reports to Christian Reinaudo, president of Alcatel's Asia Pacific activities, According to Reinaudo, "Hilary will bring a wealth of senior management experience in telecommunications into her new role. Her experience and knowledge, particularly in expanding areas including converged services, triple play and IP telephony will be invaluable in leading the company to success in what is currently a highly dynamic and evolving industry."
Prior to joining Alcatel, Mine was executive vice president of Probe Research, a market research company specialising in telecommunications, IP and wireless. She was previously program manager for the Engineering Systems Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley and an analyst with the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE).
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