Alcatel-Lucent has appointed Rajeev Singh-Molares as President of the Asia-Pacific region, replacing Sean Dolan, which will be effective from February 1, 2010.
Rajeev Singh-Molares is currently the Chief Strategy Officer of Alcatel-Lucent, responsible for identifying new development opportunities, new areas of consumer interest and new markets for industry expansion. In this role, he has been the leader in defining, communicating and overseeing the execution of the company’s new strategy, driven by its Application Enablement vision. He will continue to be a member of the company’s management committee and will be based in Shanghai.
“Rajeev is the perfect person to take our already strong relationships with service providers, enterprises, and vertical markets throughout Asia Pacific to the next level – leveraging his strategic transformation expertise in working with customers to help them evolve their businesses and networks,” said Ben Verwaayen, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent. ”I would like to thank Sean for the strong role he has played in overseeing our Asia-Pacific activities and growing our revenues in the region.”
Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent, Rajeev was a senior partner and firm director for the Monitor Group. During his 18 years stint at Monitor Group, he helped world and business leaders address complex strategic issues, including competitiveness, organisational structure, marketing, industry evolution and pressing social concerns. He has worked with over 100 companies from start-ups with uncertain business models to established companies with tens of billions of dollars in revenues looking to redefine their models.
