Alcatel-Lucent has appointed Vivek Mohan as President of its Services business. He will be a member of the company’s management committee and replaces Andy Williams who has left the company for another opportunity. Vivek will be based in India.
Vivek is currently Head of Alcatel-Lucent’s business in India. Vivek brings over 25 years of experience in managing businesses across a wide range of sectors and markets.
“I want to thank Andy for the excellent work he has done in growing our services business faster than the market, delivering a healthy operating profit, and positioning Alcatel-Lucent as the transformation partner for key customers throughout the world,” said Ben Verwaayen, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent. “Vivek is the perfect executive to accelerate this business’ growth – bringing hands-on experience in overseeing a world- class team that has performed managed services and network maintenance for some of India’s leading service providers.”
Prior to his current role as Head of Alcatel-Lucent’s business in India, Vivek headed the Services organization for Alcatel-Lucent’s South Asia region. Before India, Vivek worked in a variety of roles and locations in Alcatel-Lucent. He led the Asia-Pacific Supply Chain operations for Lucent Technologies from Shanghai and supported global business restructuring for Lucent’s Optical Networks Group (ONG) from Murray Hill, USA.
Before Alcatel-Lucent, Vivek founded and managed two start-ups located in the US and India. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from California State University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
