Ericsson CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg is leaving the helm of the Swedish vendor after six years to take on the oil sector as chairman of BP. Ericsson CFO and executive vice-president Hans Vestberg has been named as his successor, taking control as president and CEO from January, Ericsson said.
NTT Com Asiahas moved CEO Masaaki Moribayashi to Europe and appointed Japan-based vice president Takanobu Maeda to the top job. Moribayashi, who has been head of NTT Com Asia and HKNet since 2006, will become managing director of NTT Europe.
Internet address manager ICANNhas appointed former US government security official Rod Beckstrom as its new CEO.
Telstra has appointed Paul Geason as group managing director of Telstra Wholesale. Geason has been executive director of convergent sales at Telstra Enterprise and Governmentsince returning to Telstra in August 2006.
SingTel has appointed Chia Wee Boon as COO of its wholly owned ICT subsidiary NCS
PLDT has named Manila Electric chairman Manuel Lopez to its advisory board.
Alcatel-Lucent has named Christel Heydemann as strategic alliance VP. Based California, Heydemann will be responsible for leading, developing and enhancing the company\'s strategic relationship with HP.
Palm has appointed former Apple executive Jon Rubenstein as the company\'s new CEO. Rubenstein joined Palm in October 2007 as executive chairman.
Infinio Group has chosen Jeffrey Soong to be its new CEO. He will also continue to be CEO for Broadband Network Systems, which Infinio acquired earlier this year.