Alcatel Lucent’s APAC President in town

President of Alcatel-Lucent’s Asia Pacific region and a member of the management committee Rajeev Singh-Molares is in Sri Lanka today on a brief.

Molares’ visit to Sri Lanka is aimed at further enhancing the collaboration and partnership with the company’s local customer base. In Sri Lanka, Alcatel-Lucent has been engaged in deploying world-class communications solutions for service providers for more than three decades.

Having joined Alcatel-Lucent in 2009 as Chief Strategy Officer, he is responsible for overseeing the company’s APAC business including China and India; Molares is also Vice Chairman of Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell – a Chinese Government joint venture. In 2011 he was appointed Chairman of the World Economic Forum Global ICT Agenda Council.

A long-trusted partner of service providers, enterprises, strategic industries and governments around the world, Alcatel-Lucent is a leader in mobile, fixed, IP and optics technologies, and a pioneer in applications and services. Alcatel-Lucent includes Bell Labs, one of the world’s foremost centres of research and innovation in communications technology.

Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent, Molares was a partner at Monitor Group, a global professional services firm that combines strategy consulting and merchant banking. Before that, he was at Chemical Bank in its Banking and Corporate Finance, Latin America Division.

He holds a Diploma from the United Nations International School, a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Yale University.