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Romano Valussi will be new general manager of Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell
Paris, 27 January, 2010
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced the appointment by the board of directors of Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell of Romano Valussi as general manager of Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, effective immediately. Romano will also join Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell’s board of directors. Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell is Alcatel-Lucent’s flagship company in China.
In addition to this new role, Romano will also be the head of Alcatel-Lucent’s China regional business unit and will report jointly to the Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell board of directors and Rajeev Singh-Molares, the incoming president of the Asia Pacific region for Alcatel-Lucent.
Romano’s positions were previously held by Olivia Qiu who has recently taken over leadership of worldwide sales for vertical markets within Alcatel-Lucent’s Enterprise and Vertical Markets group.
Romano, who will be based in Shanghai, is currently the president of the Optics division within the Company’s Carrier product group. He is also the president of Alcatel-Lucent Italia and president of Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks.
“As the largest manufacturing base of Alcatel-Lucent worldwide and a source of world class research and development in everything from broadband access and optics to IP networking and mobile technology, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell is a force that will only grow as the industry grows,” said Yuan Xin, chairman of Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell. “We are confident that Romano’s unique talents will further expand the strength of Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell – both within China through its close partnership with all of the leading Chinese service providers as well as expanding Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell’s role within Alcatel-Lucent as it continues to contribute to developing emerging technologies such as 3G, LTE, IMS, and IPTV.”
“Romano combines more than 25 years of deep technical, product development, and R&D expertise with operational leadership and extensive customer experience in China and, more broadly, Asia Pacific – making him a natural choice for this job,” said Rajeev Singh-Molares. “Romano’s deep experience in optical networking will also strongly benefit Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell as it continues to help its Chinese customers aggressive deploy fixed broadband networks throughout the country.”
Prior to his roles as president of the Optics division, Romano was chief operating officer and Product strategy director of the Alcatel Terrestrial networks division. Prior to that Romano was the senior vice-president of Product strategy and Development for the optical networks division and, earlier, the head of the division's R&D and Global marketing. Romano was also director for Alcatel Transmission groups with worldwide development responsibilities in SDH systems. Prior to joining Alcatel in 1990, Romano was in the R&D laboratories of the Transmission division of Telettra, a telecommunications equipment vendor and, before that, held several positions in Integrated circuit design in industry and academia (University of Colorado).
Romano was awarded a degree cum laude in electronic engineering from the University of Trieste (Italy) in 1983. He holds several patents and has authored articles that have appeared in publications around the globe. Romano also served as an officer in the Italian navy.
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