Simon Beresford-Wylie (pictured) is leaving Nokia Siemens Networks where he was CEO. He is replaced by Rajeev Suri, the head of the services business; Suri is replaced by Ashish Chowdhary. Sue Spradley, leader of the company’s North American region, will join the company’s executive board.
Dennis Strigl is to step down as president and COO of Verizon Communications.
Erik Prusch, former CFO of Borland Software, is new CFO of Clearwire, replacing David Sach, who has left after less than a year. Scott Richardson is also resigning as chief strategy officer. Teresa Elder, formerly CEO of Vodafone Ireland, is president of strategic partnerships and wholesale.
Karl-Gerhard Eick, former CFO of Deutsche Telekom, is leaving the insolvent German retailer Arcandor after six months — but he is expected to get his full €10 million salary for his five-year contract, and possibly €5 million bonus.
New members of Telstra’s board: Steve Vamos, ex Microsoft and Apple, and Russell Higgins, chairman of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute.
Patricia Russo (pictured), ex Alcatel-Lucent, joined and then left the SpinVox board.
New COO of Qwest is Teresa Taylor, replacing Thomas Richards, who is leaving.
New CEO of Cable & Wireless’s Caribbean operation, Lime, is David Shaw, who replaces Richard Dodd, who has stepped down after 18 months.
Cristiane Barretto Sales is VP of finance at Vivo, the Brazilian operator owned by Telefónica and Portugal Telecom.
Alcatel-Lucent managed services head Arnaud Soubelet is to be CEO of the vendor’s joint venture with Bharti Airtel, Alcatel-Lucent Network Management Services India.
Magyar Telekom has merged its alternative businesses and corporate development business unit and the group strategy directorate, headed by Róbert Pataki as chief strategic and corporate development officer.
Cisco has appointed former Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin to its board. He was a Cisco director for five years until 2003. Sarin has also joined the board of US supermarket group Safeway.
Virgin Media has appointed Eamonn O’Hare as CFO. He was finance director of Tesco and before that he was at Energis.
Mark Gilburt, ex Vodafone and Thus, is head of MNO/MVNOs and public sector at 2ergo.
Charles Henshaw, CEO of China Mobile Hong Kong — formerly People’s — is leaving, to be replaced by chairman Lin Zhenhui.
Chandra Tekwani is vice president of mobile operations at Cloudmark.
Yuval Fisher has joined RGB Networks as CTO and Rudi Polednik is senior director of international sales. Both were at Envivio.
At UK regulator Ofcom, Hyacinth ‘H’ Nwana heads the spectrum policy group and Steve Unger is CTO.
Mobile software company Telepo has appointed Lars Wahlström, ex-Oracle, as its new CEO.
Royston Hoggarth, the head of BT Global Services’ UK operations, has left the company.
Juraj Sedivy is leaving his post as CEO of Telefónica O2 Slovakia and is succeeded by John McGuigan, customer service general manager at Telefonica O2 UK. Telefónica has appointed Douglas Gregory as director of public affairs to develop and lead the company's institutional relations strategy in the EU.
Appointments at Easynet Global Services: Justin Fielder chief planning and technology officer; Phil Mullan is MD for the UK business; Parm Dhami is acting financial director and Andrew Sumner is sales and marketing director.
Elie Ishkan is global account director and Chris Pappas is business sales executive at Orange Business Services in Australia. Lionel Grosclaude is new CEO of Orange Business Services’ trading solutions unit.
Acision has appointed Mark Williams, ex Telstra and Amdocs, as senior vice president and general manager of the Asia-Pacific region.
Michael Wheeler heads NTT America’s global IP network business unit as VP. Shuichi Ikeda is VP of sales and business development.
Comptel’s exec VP of Europe, Harri Palviainen, is leaving. CEO Sami Erviö will be interim leader for European region.
James Bodha, ex group CFO of Aircom International, is CFO of mobile software company Myriad.
New CEO of ST-Ericsson, the mobile chip technology arm of Ericsson, is Gilles Delfassy from November, replacing Alain Dutheil, who will become a board member and will return to his previous role as COO of partner company STMicroelectronics.
New CEO of Alvarion is Eran Gorev, replacing Tzvika Friedman.
Thomson VP of operations in India and Sri Lanka, Subhash Bana, is now vice president R&D of Alcatel-Lucent India.
Manish Gupta is VP of global marketing for Kabira Technologies.
It is with great sadness that we record the death of Lynd Morley, who edited our contemporary and competitor, European Communications, for 17 years. We shall miss her.