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CEO steps down as Nokia looks to AI, US and data centres for growth

Lundmark will be replaced by Justin Hotard who currently heads up the Data Centre & AI Group at Intel. Hmmm

Proximus’ CEO joins Vodafone Group as CEO of Strategy & Investment

Guillaume Boutin will take up the post in mid-May having spent seven years at the Belgian operator group

Shake-up at Tele2 continues with more changes to leadership team

Swedish operator appoints Petr Cermak as Chief Commercial Officer, CFO exits and group prepares to cut staff by 15%

Martin Ajdari appointed head of French regulator Arcom

This career civil servant takes up the mantle for audiovisual and digital communications

Kirkby drafts in former lieutenant to take charge of BT Business

Carlos Slim reduces stake in operator as BT Group reports falling sales, except in Consumer services, but better margins

DT’s COO Gopalan moves to T-Mobile US

The operator group also extends CEO Tim Höttges’ contract by another two years; Rodrigo Diehl to become COO in Germany

Alvarez-Pallete ousted at Telefonica board meeting

His replacement, Marc Murtra, has links with the public sector and government – last year the state acquired a 10% stake in the operator group

Telia Company makes changes to group executives

Holger Haljand becomes Head of Telia Finland; GiedrÄ— KaminskaitÄ—-Salters gains extra responsibilities and the hunt for a new leader for Estonia is underway

Bartolo named as CEO of Ericsson’s telco API venture

The venture also gets a new name, Aduna, to signify its many members acting as one – in theory

Enrique Blanco announces his retirement from Telefónica

The Group CTIO, perhaps the best known face in European telecoms, will leave at the end of March and be succeeded by Andrea Folgueiras, currently Telefónica’s CTIO in Latin America

Intel’s boss retires after turnaround plan judged too expensive and slow

Gelsinger allegedly resigned on 1 December, having been told he could quit or be removed by the board

Marc Allera to quit as CEO of BT Consumer division

Claire Gillies (pictured), currently President of Bell Canada’s Wireless and Consumer Divisions, will be new CEO from 1 April

More shake-ups in northern Europe as Telenor’s CTO and Sweden’s CEO depart

Amol Phadke steps down as CTO for ‘personal reasons’ as new CEO prepares to take the helm; Sweden's CEO to leave at year end

Yogesh Mallik leaves Tele2, Ove Wik becomes acting CTIO

Tele2 is undergoing a series of changes since Iliad Group indirectly became its largest shareholder in October

Telefónica Germany’s Rao to lead B2B & central AI units

Mallik Rao, who is widely seen a tech visionary, has gained more responsibilities as his CTIO tenure is extended for another four years