Igor Leprince appointed head of Global Services at Nokia Networks

Igor Leprince has been appointed to lead Global Services at Nokia Networks, effective November 4, 2014. Leprince will report to Nokia president and CEO, Rajeev Suri, and join the Nokia Networks Leadership Team. He will be executive VP Global Services, based in Espoo, Finland.

Leprince is currently the senior VP and Head of Middle East & Africa for Nokia Networks where he has been responsible for all sales and operations in the region. He will continue to lead Middle East & Africa until a successor is appointed. During his tenure, he has spearheaded the deployment of mobile broadband (3G/LTE) with the region’s leading telecommunication operators, developed and implemented the strategy that returned the region to profitability and revenue growth.

Leprince joined Nokia Networks in September 2007 as the Global Head of Network Planning and Optimisation (NPO), which became a key differentiator for the services business and for the company. He also served as head of the Global Services Care organisation prior to moving to Dubai. Before this, he held various management positions for operators and services companies. Leprince holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications and Network Engineering from ENST, Paris, France.

The Global Services business unit provides mobile operators with a broad range of services, from network implementation to care services, managed services for network and service operations, network planning and optimisation and systems integration. The business has global and local services experts and centralised tools and architecture at two global delivery centres and five global service delivery hubs around the world.