Jean Pierre Braun

With 23 years of experience in telecommunications, including 21 in Services, Jean-Pierre had many regional and global leader positions in Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia including  VP EMEA Services and VP Global Field Force.
He started his career as a computer Science engineer, then very quickly as a Software leader, finally moved into Services for Telecommunications. Software and Services leadership in businesses with a need for transformation have always been his 2 passions.
Since 1997, Jean-Pierre has an extensive leadership experience in Telecommunications Services, starting with 10 years of Mobile Networks Services for Africa-Middle-East, then Services EMEA all technologies, then Global leader for Applications Services, and finally Global Field Force leader for Nokia. He has managed international teams up to 4900 persons, and a turnover up to 5 Beuros
•    From 84 to 90 Thomson and GEMS, SW leader for CT-scan and ultrasound. Quickly took responsibilities as a SW department mgr, in a product rationalization context  over 3 continents
•    From 90 to 91 GEC-Alstom, SW leader for automated Train Control Systems. Innovative and extremely productive methods were used, e.g. Embedded Formal verification
•    From 92 till 2009, leader for integration of the 1st release of GSM. Then moved to Project Manager for Telstra in Australia, then became head of Global Radio Engineering. Then led MEA Mobile Networks Services which grew from 60Me to 2Be, reaching 10% of the whole Alcatel business. After the merger with Lucent, took Services all technologies first in MEA then for EMEA. (5Be, almost 5000 HC).
•    2010-2013: Restructured the Applications Services business, where Quality was the main challenge. reorganized all Services into a global organization, with Global SW factory, and applying a unique software integration methodology called AIM. Results were 20% productivity increase, increase cust sat by 0.7pt.
•    2013-2015: Services for Wireless EMEA. Focusing on PMO, Customer engineering and control tower.
•    2016-now: VP Market Services Operations and Global Field Force, with 4000 Field Force headcount and 1.7 Beuros spent.