Telecom CTO June 2008 - Feb 2010
After all the issues with XT and with Alcatel-Lucent’s Head of New Zealand Business resigning is it just coincidence that Frank Mount, Telecom CTO, has just resigned?
Frank Mount’s bio from the Telecom site:
As Chief Transformation Officer, Frank is responsible for driving the company’s transformation for long-term growth and delivering Telecom’s new generation of world-class services to our customers in new and innovative ways. He’s well equipped to do this with an impressive track record in senior leadership roles at some of the world’s leading telecommunications companies. After starting his career at AT&T, where he stayed for 20 years, Frank has since worked for T-Mobile, Cable & Wireless, US Cable, Primus Communications and Viatel Inc. Frank has an extensive knowledge of the full spectrum of telecommunications and IP technologies. Frank was educated in Europe and the USA in moderns, classics and sciences and has a degree in mathematics and IT from Mercy College, New York.
The press release:
Telecom has today announced that Frank Mount, its CTO, has resigned.
The resignation was accepted by Paul Reynolds this morning and is effective immediately.
“In the interests of our customers, our team and New Zealand, I have regretfully accepted Frank’s resignation,” said Paul Reynolds, CEO, Telecom.
“I am pleased to announce that CIO David Havercroft will assume the responsibility for all network and IT operations from today and CFO Russ Houlden will carry interim responsibility for our Shared Services operations and Technology Strategy.
“I want to acknowledge with personal gratitude Frank Mount’s enormous contribution to Telecom over the past 18 months. He has worked tirelessly and selflessly for our customers and for Telecom people. The successful delivery of Telecom’s Crown Undertakings schedule on Operational Separation represents one of the most significant operational and IT programmes in the company’s history and is re-shaping the industry. I wish Frank well for the future,” he said.
Oh dear…. Yep, definitely seems related to XT problems and Alcatel-Lucent’s NZ boss resigning.
(Mak has made 146 comments)
I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that if this guy was in charge of XT then we have our answer…how old is he??? All I can think is that he learnt his trade from a certain Mr Bell
(camtab has made 8 comments)
By the looks of him he died years ago
(mattallen666 has made 8 comments)