PARIS -- Alcatel (Paris : CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) today announced that Caroline Guillaumin is appointed Vice President, Corporate Communications as of today. She will also coordinate the company sustainable development policy. Caroline Guillaumin will have the same position in the combined company with Lucent Technologies. She will report to Claire Pedini, Senior Vice President, Corporate Human Resources and Communications of Alcatel.

Caroline Guillaumin was Communications and corporate social responsibility director of SFR, since May 2003. She was previously Corporate internal and external communications director of Alcatel, from June 1999 to May 2003, and from 1998 to 1999, senior marketing and communications manager at Alcatel Answare, an Alcatel company. From 1997 to 1998, she was Europe marketing and communications director for Verity, Inc. From 1990 to 1998, Caroline Guillaumin held several positions in marketing and communications at P.C. Publishing, Inc. in France and in the United States (Los Angeles and Boston). Caroline Guillaumin is a graduate in political sciences (IEP Bordeaux), and holds a Master of Arts in international relations from the Boston University, MA.

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