Vincent Munière joins Ekinops from the Altice-owned French mobile firm SFR, where he spent 12 years across various roles. Most recently Munière was the senior vice president of network and OSS engineering, a role in which he managed a team of 900 people and headed network and IT OSS engineering activities.
Didier Brédy, CEO of Ekinops, commented: “We are very fortunate to have attracted such a talented executive and Vincent's experience will be invaluable to Ekinops.
“He knows how to deliver major technical innovations, define a strong technology vision and lead large teams through transformation programs to deliver on that vision. He comes in at a perfect time as we are migrating toward virtualisation, 5G and edge computing which are areas he masters. His joining is a significant step toward continued growth and achievement of our strategic objectives,” Brédy continued.
Prior to SFR Munière spent eight year developing solutions for Alcatel-Lucent and three years with ICO Global in the UK.
He said: “I'm thrilled to be joining a world-class team of engineers who are dedicated to help service providers and businesses face today's challenge of enabling next-generation telecommunications services”