Astellia appoints Benamar as CEO

Network analytics vendor Astellia has announced the appointment of former Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson exec Abdelkrim Benamar as its new CEO.
Benamar joined Astellia last year as COO, having previously been EMEA VP for networks vendor Alcatel-Lucent. His rapid promotion indicates the commercial and operational performance improvements he was brought in to implement have gone well. Prior to A-Lu, Benamar was part of Ericsson’s French operations for seven years.
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