Ericsson, which is struggling to improve growth in revenue and net income, announced a new leadership team to revive the company.
Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg, who has been heading the telecom network company since 2010, will continue in his position.
The telecom network maker also announced resignation of some of the top management team as part of the major restructuring.
New structure
The new structure of Ericsson will have five business units and one dedicated customer group for Industry & Society.
Arun Bansal will be the head of Business Unit Network Products. Fredrik Jejdling will head Business Unit Network Services. Business Unit Network Products and Business Unit Network Services will be part of Ericsson’s core focus areas.
Business Unit IT & Cloud Products and Business Unit IT & Cloud Services will be Ericcson’s targeted growth areas.
New leadership team at Ericsson
Jan Frykhammar, chief financial officer and head of Group Function Finance & Common Functions. Frykhammar currently holds the position as chief financial officer and head of Group Function Finance (since 2009)
Arun Bansal, head of Business Unit Network Products. Bansal currently holds the position as head of Business Unit Radio (since 2014) – new member of the ELT.
Per Borgklint, chief innovation officer and head of Business Unit Media. Borgklint currently holds the position as senior vice president and head of Business Unit Support Solutions (since 2011)
Bina Chaurasia, chief human resources Officer and head of Group Function Human Resources (since 2010)
Ulf Ewaldsson, chief technology officer and head of Group Function Technology (since 2012)
Niklas Heuveldop, chief customer officer and head of Group Function Sales. Heuveldop currently holds the position as Head of Global Customer Unit AT&T – new member of the ELT
Chris Houghton, head of Region North East Asia (since 2015) – new member of the ELT
Fredrik Jejdling, head of Business Unit Network Services. Jejdling currently holds the position as Head of Region sub-Saharan Africa (since 2013) – new member of the ELT
Anders Lindblad, head of Business Unit IT & Cloud Products. Lindblad currently holds the position as Head of Business Unit Cloud & IP (since 2014) – new member of the ELT
Nina Macpherson, chief legal officer and head of Group Function Legal Affairs (since 2011)
Helena Norrman, chief marketing and communications officer and head of Group Function Marketing and Communications (since 2014)
Jean-Philippe Poirault, head of Business Unit IT & Cloud Services. Poirault currently holds the position as Head of Consulting and Systems Integration – new member of the ELT
Rima Qureshi, head of Region North America and chief strategy officer. Qureshi currently holds the position as Senior Vice President, Head of Group Function Strategy and Head of M&A (since 2014)
Charlotta Sund, head of Customer Group Industry & Society. Sund currently holds the position as Head of Region Northern Europe and Central Asia (since 2014) – new member of the ELT
Elaine Weidman-Grunewald, head of Group Function Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility – new member of the ELT
New appointments
Peter Laurin, head of Region Northern Europe and Central Asia. Laurin currently holds the position as head of Global Customer Unit Vodafone.
Jean-Claude Geha, head of Region sub-Saharan Africa. Geha currently holds the position as Head of Business Line Managed Services.
Gustav Brismark, chief intellectual property officer and head of IPR & Licensing. Brismark currently holds the position as vice president, Patent Strategy and Portfolio.
Who’s leaving or shifting positions
Magnus Mandersson, head of Segment and Business Unit Global Services (since 2010). As of July 1, 2016, Mandersson will hold the position as head of Segment Global Services.
Jan Wareby, head of Group Function Sales (since 2014), will leave Ericsson.
Anders Thulin, chief information officer and head of Group Function Business Excellence and Common Functions (since 2013), will leave Ericsson.
Angel Ruiz, head of Region North America (since 2010). Ruiz will continue with the company as Chairperson of regions North and Latin America.
Mats H. Olsson, head of Ericsson Asia-Pacific (since 2013), will leave Ericsson.
Baburajan K
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This is a very significant announcement. It will ultimately lead to Ericsson being the
Woolworths of the Telcos. I have been
with Ericsson for many years and during that period the company has been
heading in the wrong direction. First,
there are far too many managers at Ericsson.
Layer upon layer of managers who do not value add to the business. Secondly too much work has been outsourced
overseas. The general technical competence
of the overseas workers is inordinately deficient. The solution is to abolish most of the middle
management positions and employ more engineers and technicians to work on the
core roles at the ground level. Middle management
reports to other middle managers who have no direct supervision of any staff. .Middle
management frustrate the efficient operation of the company. I want to see our company succeed. If we do not act now, the damage will become ill
repairable.
Furthermore, I forgot to clarify I currently I work in
Australian arm of Ericsson. More to come
soon. I just need to clear future posts
via my manager.
To be clear my comments relate to my involvement in Ericsson
Australia, I cannot comment
for Europe. However, I can tell you that Ericsson
Australia is in a spiral death dive.
Reform and change cannot occur when the employees are
silenced. Ericsson Australia has
major problems. These problems are
becoming worse. Unfortunately
constructive criticism is not welcomed at Ericsson Australia. Senior management is not being properly
informed by middle management. Things will
become worse and not better. Furthermore
why are some people at Ericsson now putting resources into finding out my identity?
I ask would it not be better to fix our
problems and reform middle management. To
those searching logs to trying to find out which employee I am, are wasting
company time. You will never find
out. I have been tipped off about this
Ericsson internal investigation. I
intend to provide a list of all the middle managers in Australia with their
current salaries and whether each one value adds to our company. I will do this because internal investigations
and audit are too busy at the moment trying to find out my identify. However I will sleep well because they do not
have the technical competence to even do this task. Good luck boys!
Good Afternoon Ericsson Australia Staff,
Since my postings there has been much discussion about them.
Interestingly the focus has been on
establishing my identity. Significantly
nobody disputes the issues I raise. Not
even the middle managers who know that they are rorting the system. We all agree that middle management in Ericsson
Australia
needs an urgent review and culling.
Today I wish to expand the discussion in the form of some
general questions.
Do any current or former middle managers have relatives
working in another telecommunications company?
If so, has commercial in confidence Ericsson Australia
information been passed on to that relative to give the other telecommunications
company an unfair advantage in a tender process?
Do all middle level managers, past and present, have the
required or necessary experience and qualifications to hold that middle level
manager position in Ericsson Australia?
Has the claimed experience and academic qualifications by
those middle managers been independently verified?
Have middle level managers used interstate travel for
vocation purposes or to visit close relatives?
Okay, that is enough for today. Time to go back to work but lets develop this
discussion further. What do you
think? Let’s build a better Ericsson Australia
and not a Dick Smith Telco.