| Gauthey In, Keryer Up, Rahier Lateral As Ben Takes Charge |
| Written by Dave Burstein |
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Philippe Keryer CTO Olivier Baujard is the most prominent casualty as Ben Verwaayen puts his people in charge. He's also being replaced as head of Alcatel France by Pierre Barnabe Silicon.fr believes this represents marketing taking priority over technology at Alcatel, but Frederic Schaeffer of Les Echos thinks it's more likely Baujard lost a power struggle to Jeong Kim of Lucent/Bell Labs. Barnabe has a thankless job, facing strikes and protests as he fires thousands. Gabriele Gauthey, the new regulatory face of Alcatel, has just joined from the French regulator ARCEP. Smart and respected in policy circles, she should prove a standout.
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becomes one of the most important executives in broadband, where Alcatel has been the leader from the beginning. He's the new head of the carrier business group, which includes DSL and fiber. He comes from mobile, so I don't know him yet. His predecessor, Michel Rahier, moves to President of Operations and remains on the executive committee. 
Rahier, a Ph.D engineer and very sharp, was one of the first in the west to recognize that Huawei was the biggest threat, rather than Lucent, Siemens, or Ericsson. He's held off a ferocious assault by Huawei on the DSLAM market, where the two now contend for almost every major contract.
