At the heart of Cloud and Network Services lies the technology itself, and the man who drives it has been a technologist almost from birth. Ever since he can remember, Ron Haberman has been taking things apart and putting them back together. His mother still showcases an old photo of him as a little boy where he was tearing apart … Read More
For Friedrich Trawoeger there is no real distinction between personal and professional life. As head of the Cloud and Cognitive Services organization, he oversees a range of advanced and managed services that look to ease the earth’s environmental and sustainability challenges. And as a passionate offshore sailor, who has navigated parts of the globe in a vessel that he largely … Read More
As chief operations officer for Cloud and Network Services, Christian Foerster is responsible for leading procurement, supply chain, process simplification and digitalization – making sure products are delivered when needed at quality and cost. In other words, he’s the glue that brings the business group together, connecting research and development to the go-to-market groups and the services to the suppliers. … Read More
Time is running out: Few survivors with strong memories remain – most of the firsthand stories we hear nowadays are from the perspective of children, maybe teens. Column published in The Times of Israel. Holocaust Remembrance Day is perhaps the most solemn on the Israeli calendar. It’s a day when the country literally comes to a standstill to honor the … Read More
More than 90 Nokia employees in Israel took a break from their meetings and put a pause on their programming duties for an hour on Thursday (Apr. 8) afternoon to gather some perspective on one of the most somber days of the Israeli calendar. Some visibly shaken, they remained glued to their screens to hear 91-year-old Shimon Greenhouse methodically lay … Read More
While studying business administration at the University of Texas at Dallas, Issa Eid was hired as a product quality analyst at Nortel Networks in Dallas. Human resources and leaving the Lone Star state were the furthest things from his mind. All that changed when he joined the HR Mobility department at Alcatel, building the IT system to manage the ex-pat … Read More
A version of this story was published in the World Economic Forum Last year’s historic SpaceX launch may have marked another small step for spaceflight, but it was a giant leap for automation. Fifty years after Neil Armstrong manually piloted Apollo XI safely down to the moon’s surface, the SpaceX astronauts docked successfully into the International Space Station without having to lift … Read More
Throughout his extensive networking career, Karl Bream has frequently alternated between the carrier and enterprise worlds. Starting at AT&T and in later roles at Alcatel-Lucent and, following the 2016 merger, at Nokia as well, Bream has found himself moving back and forth between various roles in the two domains. So, when Cloud and Network Services was established this year, essentially … Read More
Chris Johnson has two passions: sales and music. For the past 30+ years, he has pursued both with similar enthusiasm. By day, he’s at the forefront of Nokia’s push into Industry 4.0 as leader of Cloud and Network Services’ Enterprise Customer Team, having previously held senior sales positions at HP, RSA, EMC, Sequent and NCR. By night, he’s the lead … Read More
Hamdy Farid likens his path from a modest upbringing in Egypt to a top leadership position at Nokia to that of a typical immigrant story. After earning a computer engineering degree from Alexandria University, and briefly working in software in Cairo, he departed the scorching Middle East at age 24 to seek a brighter future in frigid Ottawa, Canada to … Read More
Israel desperately needs electoral reform so that election day can once again become a celebration of democracy. Op-ed published in The Times of Israel. Israel’s election on March 23 will be the fourth since my youngest daughter was born. She’s not even two. Teenaged American girls can celebrate their Quinceanera at 15, and French teenagers can turn 19 and be … Read More
If there is one key take away from Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler’s fascinating book, “The future is faster than you think,” it is that the future really is faster and closer than you think. What was once the realm of science fiction is now quickly becoming science fact. Flying cars, bullet train “hyperloops” and mega-rockets transporting you anywhere on … Read More
Israel’s great Faustian bargain with the ultra-Orthodox has been a colossal failure. The upcoming election may be the last chance to fix it. Op-ed published in The Times of Israel. It was a historic night. Benjamin Netanyahu had been defeated and Ehud Barak was standing on the balcony of Rabin Square promising “the dawn of a new day.” But what … Read More
Israelis can count on the US president to have their country’s most significant interests at heart, even if it comes with a dose of tough love. Op-ed published in The Times of Israel. When Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, his familiarity with the African American community prompted some to fondly call him the “first Black president.” According to … Read More
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has upended the way we live in so many ways that it’s shaping up to be the kind of world-altering event that rivals the two world wars, the Great Depression, the fall of the Soviet Union, 9/11 and the rise of the internet. It’s still far too early to predict how it will affect everything, especially … Read More