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FLAG
appoints Senior VP Sales & Marketing
London, UK – 19 August 2004: FLAG Telecom,
a leading provider of international wholesale network
transport and communications services, today announced
the appointment of Serge Fortin as Senior Vice President,
Sales and Marketing, FLAG Telecom and a member of
the company’s Executive Team. Prior to joining
FLAG, Serge was Vice Chairman, Teleglobe, Canada.
Patrick Gallagher, CEO FLAG Telecom, said: “This
is a newly created position on the Executive Team
and will play a key contributing role in the next
stage of FLAG’s development. Serge has an
extremely strong international telecommunications
background and a wealth of experience in our industry
segment. I look forward to him taking a leading
role in further developing a strong international
sales force, creating solid customer partnerships,
and building further on our brand recognition and
company awareness to deliver a combined strategic
vision of FLAG and Reliance.”
At Teleglobe, Serge held a number of senior positions
in engineering, operations, marketing and sales,
including President, Worldwide Sales, Executive
Vice President – Voice, Chief Operating Officer
and most recently Vice Chairman, Teleglobe Canada.
Prior to joining Teleglobe Serge was President and
CEO of Bell Actimedia, managing the Yellow Pages,
electronic business, Sympatico portal and Sympatico
Internet access provider. Serge began his career
at Bell Canada, where he held various executive
roles in Engineering, Operations, Strategic Planning,
Marketing, Budgeting and Sales.
Serge, who will be based in the London offices of
FLAG Telecom, has a bachelor’s degree in pure
and applied sciences from the Universite de Sherbrooke.
About FLAG Telecom
FLAG Telecom, a member company of the Reliance Group,
has an established customer base of more than 180
leading operators, including all of the top ten
international carriers. FLAG owns and manages an
extensive optical fibre network spanning four continents
and connecting key business markets in Asia, Europe,
the Middle East and the USA. FLAG also owns and
operates a low latency global MPLS based IP network,
which connects most of the world's principal international
Internet exchanges. FLAG offers a focused range
of global products, including global bandwidth,
IP, Internet, Ethernet and Co-location services.
In the first international acquisition by the Group,
FLAG Telecom became a Reliance Group company on
12 January 2004. Recent news releases and further
information are on FLAG Telecom's website at: www.flagtelecom.com.
About Reliance Infocomm
Reliance Infocomm Ltd., a Reliance group company,
is India’s largest mobile service provider
with over seven million customers. Reliance Infocomm
has established a pan-India, high-capacity, integrated
(wireless and wireline) and convergent (voice, data
and video) digital network, to offer services spanning
the entire Infocomm value chain – infrastructure,
services for enterprises and individuals, applications
and consulting. The Reliance Group, founded by Shri
Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002), is India's largest
business house with total revenues to March 2004
of over Rs 99,000 crore (US$ 22.6 billion), cash
profit of Rs 12,500 crore (US$ 2.8 billion), net
profit of Rs 6,200 crore (US$ 1.4 billion) and exports
of Rs 15,900 crore (US$ 3.6 billion). |
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