Alcatel-Lucent reorganizes again under former BT head

In September, networking technology joint company Alcatel-Lucent named Ben Verwaayen, formerly of British Telecom, its new CEO. The company today announced its completed leadership team that will take office on the first of the new year.

Alcatel-Lucent has been in a protracted transitional phase where it has not yet become profitable. As such, it has taken on an all new leadership team and a new business model. The new model breaks operations into three regions: the Americas, Europe/Middle East/Africa, and Asia-Pacific (APAC).

Former president and CEO of Openwave Systems Robert Vrij will take charge of The Americas; Adolfo Hernandez (formerly of Sun Microsystems) will head the Europe, Middle East and Africa region; and Etienne Fouques, an Alcatel executive since 1995, will head up the Asia-Pacific region.

The company says its focus will remain on the innovations coming from Bell Labs, where research is being done in RF object tracking, Molecular Beam Epitaxy, and Intelligent Cognitive Radios.