Telecom Lead Europe: Bell Labs, a part of Alcatel-Lucent, has appointed Gee Rittenhouse as president.
Rittenhouse is currently chief operating officer of Alcatel-Lucent’s technology platforms business.
He has experience within Bell Labs, as head of Bell Labs Research, manged Bell Labs research centers and activities for Alcatel-Lucent and chaired GreenTouch, a consortium launched by Bell Labs.
Jeong Kim, Bell Labs’ president for the last eight years, will return to South Korea, where he is to be appointed as the country’s new Minister of Future Creation and Science.
From 2007 to 2011, Rittenhouse held the position of vice president, Bell Labs Research, responsible for creating new growth opportunities by inventing technologies with disruptive impact, including green innovations to promote environmental sustainability.
Prior to this, Rittenhouse led Bell Labs’ Technology Integration Group, with a mission of taking Bell Labs research assets and innovations and driving them, through development activities and project management, into Alcatel-Lucent products and services.
Gee was also vice president of Bell Labs Wireless Research. In 2000, he was promoted to director of the Wireless Technology Research Department and led several projects including MIMO system development, cellular network optimization, wireless IP networks, and fourth-generation wireless systems.
Gee joined Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff in 1993 where he worked on high-speed circuits using X-ray lithography for optical networking applications.
