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People, November 12 2009
12 November 2009
BT appoints Ribbit CEO Ted Griggs to be CTO of BT Voice, as Deutsche Telekom makes Olivier Baujard its CTO
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Ted Griggs, the CEO of Ribbit, now owned by BT, has been made CTO of BT Voice. Griggs, based in Silicon Valley, has founded at least five companies: he sold Junction to Cisco and Internet Gaming Zone to Microsoft. He set up softswitch maker Syndeo in1999 and ran it until 2003. He helped to found Ribbit — seen by some as a competitor to Google Voice — in 2006 and BT bought it for $105 million in 2008. Ribbit calls itself “Silicon Valley’s first phone company”. According to BT, “Ribbit has now been fully integrated into BT and therefore it makes sense for Ribbit and voice to come together under Ted’s leadership.”
Olivier Baujard, former CTO of Alcatel and then CEO of Alcatel-Lucent France, is to be CTO of Deutsche Telekom, reporting to Hamid Akhavan, the COO. Baujard joined Alcatel in 1988 after spells in French government agencies and with France Telecom. He is a graduate of the École Polytechnique in Paris and École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris.
Ericsson’s CTO, Håkan Eriksson, is to lead the company in Silicon Valley, taking over from Bert Nordberg, newly appointed president of Sony Ericsson. He remains CTO and keeps his function as head of technology and portfolio management. Ericsson’s new chief brand officer is Cesare Avenia, presently head of the South-east Europe market unit.
Mika Vehvilainen is leaving Nokia Siemens Networks, where he was the COO who put the merger together, to be CEO of the airline Finnair.
Clearwire’s new chief strategy officer is David Maquera, ex VP of strategic development for Cricket Communications/Leap Wireless. Thomas Enraght-Moony is VP of marketing and general manager of Clear Online. He was CEO of Match.com and previously director and then vice president of e-commerce at AT&T Wireless.
Danielle Crook, European brand director at Gap, is to be brand director at Vodafone UK, replacing Charlie Smith who leaves the company with immediate effect.
Yuval Shachar is to join the board of XConnect. He created three internet companies that were acquired by Cisco and was a general manager in Cisco’s service provider group for five years until earlier in 2009.
Mireille Le Van is appointed corporate general secretary for the Orange Foundation, which runs corporate philanthropy projects for France Telecom, taking over from Olivier Tcherniak. A telecoms engineer, Le Van has been running FT Orange’s south-east France region. Martin Stiven, ex O2, is VP of business at Orange UK.
Telstra consumer group managing director David Moffatt will leave the company at the end of November 2009. Glenice Maclellan will be acting group managing director in his place.
RiverMuse, founded by the team behind Micromuse and Riversoft, has appointed Jean-Luc Valente as president and CEO. Valente was chairman of cloud computing company Cittio.
Infinera has promoted Chris Champion to be VP of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Arnd Aschentrup is to be COO of Mobile Streams, a mobile content retailer.
John Lawlor is VP of investor relations at DragonWave, having had a similar role at Cognos.
Jan Olin is to be MD for Europe of MobiTV, to head its planned expansion into Europe. He was director of business development at Yahoo! Europe.
David Freedman is CFO of Aricent. GTB