Alcatel-Lucent names leadership

Alcatel-Lucent named its new leadership on Tuesday, handing the task of turning around the loss-making telecoms equipment group to former British Telecom chief executive and industry veteran Ben Verwaayen, says Reuters.

The appointment of Verwaayen as chief executive, coupled with the hiring of French business grandee Philippe Camus as non-executive chairman, comes a month after investors forced the current managers out following a series of profit warnings.

The world's biggest provider of fixed-line telecoms networks, which has been losing market share amid a tough market and fierce competition from key rivals such as Ericsson, has seen its market value drop more than 60% in the 21 months since Alcatel and Lucent merged.

Microsoft Australia has released its Students to Business (S2B) programme to link students and graduate job seekers with local IT career opportunities, states ARN.

Through the S2B programme, universities and training providers can work together with local companies to provide students with internship and graduate employment opportunities.

The S2B portal will match qualified job candidates with open positions.

Juniper Networks, a provider of high-performance networking, has appointed Adrian Carr to the role of VP of enterprise sales EMEA, reports Verivox.

Carr will report to Gert-Jan Schenk, senior VP of operations EMEA, who had previously been fulfilling this role on an interim basis.

Reporting to Carr will be the leaders of Juniper Networks' enterprise sales teams across the region.