BROWSING: CEO

Who will be Intel’s next CEO…and why do we care?

Who will Intel tap as next CEO? The next CEO has to continue the company's 5G and IoT push. Now that journalists and analysts have weighed in on the angles of former Intel CEO Brian Krzanich’s departure, a couple of themes have emerged. Although it is...

Michael Klayko named new AOptix CEO

AOptix uses lasers for wireless communications Michael Klayko, former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, was tapped as new CEO of California-based AOptix Technologies. AOptix uses laser radio technology to support high-capacity wireless data transport. “AOptix’s highly differentiated product offerings have positioned the company to revolutionize the wireless...

EMEA CEOs: nomos AG talks IoT

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor, and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing...

EMEA CEOs: Birdstep Technology

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing...

DeCarta CEO talks connected cars

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing...

Small Cell Forum focuses on carrier engagement

Women in Wireless Infrastructure: Small Cell Forum CEO Sue Monahan Sue Monahan is all about the network. She says the network is what she loves best about both her current jobs: She is director of GSMA North America and she has recently added the role...

Announcing Telecom Exchange (TEX) CEO Roundtable Participants

Co-Hosts Jaymie Scotto & Associates and RCR Wireless News Announce Telecom Exchange CEO Roundtable Participants Live from NYC, Zayo, Allied Fiber, Hibernia, NeXXcom, TW Telecom, Optelian, Atlantic-ACM, Bankstreet, Alteva, Colo Atl and Lightower Fiber Networks headline premier data center and telecom network industry event  Austin, TX – May...

NII Holdings taps Shindler to replace Dussek as interim CEO

Another change has come to the c-level team at NII Holdings, which operates under the Nextel brand in Latin America. The company announced that Steven Shindler, currently the chairman of the board, will take on the additional position of interim CEO effective immediately. Shindler...

Brazilian CEOs not so optimistic about country’s future growth

The chief executive officers (CEO) of five big Brazilian companies from different sectors showed concerns about Brazil’s future economic growth, during a panel discussion at the IBM Forum this week in São Paulo. While emphasizing past progress, they also agreed that the economic development...

UNE EPM, Digicel Haiti named new CEOs

Two telecom operators have named new CEOs. After announcing an interim president, Colombian public carrier UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones SA named Marc Eichmann as its new president. He will start next February 1. Eichmann is a mechanical engineer and has experience in management positions in telecommunications...

RIM shakes up management; Balsillie and Lazaridis out, Heins in

Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) reported that its co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have stepped down. The beleaguered Canadian device maker said Balsillie and Lazardis will be replaced by former COO Thorsten Heins. “There comes a time in the growth of every successful company...

IBM changes CEO; Rometty succeeds Palmisano

Virginia Rometty was elected the new president and CEO of IBM where she will succeed Samuel Palmisano on Jan. 1, 2012. Palmisano has been CEO since 2002, and will remain as chairman of the board, which is a position he has hendl since 2003....

RIM streamlines, jettisons 2,000 employees

While many mobile devices makers, such as Apple and Samsung, are seeing record sales and ever-increasing revenues, Canadian firm Research In Motion are in the midst of a pronounced downward slide, which has today seen them announce a management restructuring and large-scale redundancies totalling around 11% of their workforce.

Roaming rates are ridiculous Starhub’s hero CEO rails

Starhub’s CEO Neil Montefiore became a bit of a hero at TM Forum’s Management World 2011 this week when he declared that roaming charges were outrageous and that the GSMA should do something about it.

Bloomberg: Televisa’s Azcarraga Interview

Bloomberg | April 8, 2011 | Video April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Emilio Azcarraga, chairman and chief executive officer of Grupo Televisa SA, talks about the company's purchase of a 50 percent stake in Grupo Iusacell SA and its ability to compete against billionaire Carlos Slim's...

Bloomberg: Televisa's Azcarraga Interview

Bloomberg | April 8, 2011 | Video April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Emilio Azcarraga, chairman and chief executive officer of Grupo Televisa SA, talks about the company's purchase of a 50 percent stake in Grupo Iusacell SA and its ability to compete against billionaire Carlos Slim's...

WSJ: Brazil Stocks Close Lower As Disappointing US Data Saps Risk Appetite

Wall Street Journal | April 14, 2011 | Diana Kinch Brazilian blue chips showed mixed performance. Telephone operator Tele Norte Leste Participacoes S.A. (TMAR5.BR), or Oi, soared 5.30% to 59.80 Brazilian reais ($37.84),the highest gainer on the Bovespa exchange, after it announced that Luiz Eduardo Falco...

Page shakes up management in first week back as Google CEO

It's been around ten years since Larry Page held the CEO position at Google, and now that he's back in charge after Eric Schmidt stepped aside to allow the Google co-founder to take the reigns, it would seem he's keen to make his mark on the now-huge company, and has this week dramatically reshuffled Google's top brass

Another court challenge won’t stop illegal downloads iiNet calls on Hollywood studios to work with industry

iiNet | March 24, 2011 | Press Release 24 March 2011: Another court challenge to last month's Full Federal Court judgment which dismissed allegations of copyright breaches will not stop illegal downloading, even if successful, iiNet's Chief Executive Officer Michael Malone said today. Responding to the...

Another court challenge won't stop illegal downloads iiNet calls on Hollywood studios to work with industry

iiNet | March 24, 2011 | Press Release 24 March 2011: Another court challenge to last month's Full Federal Court judgment which dismissed allegations of copyright breaches will not stop illegal downloading, even if successful, iiNet's Chief Executive Officer Michael Malone said today. Responding to the...

Son Travels to Fukushima

Wall Street Journal | March 22, 2011 | Yoree Koh Masayoshi Son is not a member of the fearless Tokyo Fire Department’s Hyper Rescue Squad that departed Monday for the troubled northern pocket of Japan. But the famously energetic chief executive and founder of Softbank...

Maxcom Telecomunicaciones appoints new chief executive officer

Maxcom | February 23, 2011 | Press Release MEXICO CITY, Feb. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- (NYSE: MXT, BMV: MAXCOM.CPO) -- Maxcom Telecomunicaciones, S.A.B. de C.V.("Maxcom" or the "Company") today announced that Mr. Salvador Alvarez has joined the Company as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), replacing Mr. William Nazaret who has been with the...

Alibaba.com CEO resigns in wake of fraud by sellers

Wall Street Journal | February 21, 2011 | Loretta Chao and Yvonne Lee BEIJING—Alibaba.com Ltd. said Chief Executive David Wei and Chief Operating Officer Elvis Lee are leaving the company, after an internal investigation found that more than 2,300 sellers on the e-commerce site committed...

Nokia shareholders attempt coup

Nokia Corp.'s announcement last week of a "strategic partnership" with Microsoft Corp. was certainly big news, but it also raised a few eyebrows. Some asked if new CEO Stephen Elop, a former Microsoft man, had chosen Windows Phone 7 not because he thought it was best for the company, but because he is still in bed with Ballmer & Co.