Nokia Siemens Networks has appointed Ken Wirth as head of customer operations for North and Latin America. In this role, Wirth will be responsible for the company?s sales throughout the Americas and will join the company?s executive board.
Previously, Wirth was president of the End-to-End Networks business at Alcatel Lucent. Wirth will join the company on April 23, 2012 reporting to the chief executive officer, Rajeev Suri.
Wirth has spent much of his career in leading roles in the telecommunications industry. He played an important part in building Alcatel-Lucent?s global LTE business with Verizon, AT&T, China Mobile, Telefonica and other leading operators.
Before that Wirth held a range of leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, including heading the company?s 4G/LTE business unit and serving as president of the Verizon customer team. At Lucent Technologies he was president of Multimedia Network Solutions which consisted of the fixed access, data and optical businesses. Before that, Wirth was president of Lucent’s Optical Networking Group. He originally joined Lucent Technologies from AT&T, where he held sales, product management and financial roles.
Wirth started his career with AT&T Network Systems and has a BA in Communications from Seton Hall University, New Jersey. He will be based out of Bedminster, New Jersey.
