

Speaker Biography
Martine Lapierre
Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent
Martine Lapierre is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, and holds a Master in Public Affairs from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.
She started in France Telecom/Orange Group where she worked 10 years in switching, networking, data and services. This included an exchange program at AT&T (Pacific Bell, California).
She joined Alcatel in 1987 where she worked as Marketing Director for the Metropolitan Area Networks and for the Switching, and later as the Director of the Alcatel Corporate Research Center IT Department. In parallel, she was President of the TINA Consortium in 98/99.
She was President of the Switching A1000E10 Business Unit then Chief Technology Officer of Alcatel Carrier Networking Group & Mobile Communications Group (fixed and mobile). She was also President for Europe and member of the Board of Directors of the IMS Forum (formerly Softswtich Consortium & IPCC) and chaired at the European Community a workgroup on Mobile Content for the eMobility in 2003/04.
Martine Lapierre is now Executive advisor to the Carriers Group President, and VP Strategic Marketing for the Competitive Transformation Top Marketing Program of Alcatel-Lucent.