Lannion Gets New Leader

PARIS -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that Gérard Le Bihan will lead the Alcatel-Lucent site in Lannion (France), replacing Nicolas Le-Guennec. He will also keep its operational functions in Alcatel-Lucent convergence activities.

Nicolas Le-Guennec, who has lead the legacy Alcatel site in Lannion since 2002, is becoming responsible for the global real estate portfolio of Alcatel-Lucent within the nine Regional Units established in Europe & South (Central & Latin America, France, Iberia, Italy, Middle-East, Africa, South Asia, South East Europe).

Gérard Le Bihan joined Alcatel in 1981, and made his career there. Between 1981 and 2001, he managed different technical functions, especially in the ATM environment. In 2002, he joined the Mobile communications activities as Project director for new product and network integration focusing on IMS development. Since 2004, he was Senior architect in charge of the portfolio renovation for both the circuit and data product lines. Gérard Le Bihan has an engineer degree of ENST Brest (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Télécommunications). He is currently 48 years old.

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