Changes position the company for growth and success
DENVER, Feb. 2, 2023
/PRNewswire/ -- To serve customers better and best position the
company for growth, Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) is making
changes to its executive leadership team over the coming weeks.
Sham Chotai has been named Executive Vice President, Product and
Technology, and Jay Barrows,
Executive Vice President, Enterprise Sales and Public Sector.
Additionally, Ashley Haynes-Gaspar
will add the company's marketing organization to her
responsibilities and assume the title of Executive Vice President,
Customer Experience Officer, Wholesale, and
International.
"Lumen is focused on becoming customer obsessed, rapidly
innovating valuable solutions, and aligning our business model to
deliver amazing customer experiences," said Kate Johnson, President and CEO of Lumen. "Sham
and Jay will each play a critical role in modernizing our business
and improving our execution capability to support these goals. Both
are agile leaders who have driven successful strategic corporate
transformations with impressive results."
In the role of EVP, Product and Technology, Sham will evolve IT
architectures and solutions offerings to better meet Lumen customer
needs. He has extensive experience propelling enterprise-wide
digital transformations, building innovative, market-leading
solutions, and driving significant productivity improvements. Sham
has held various C-Suite positions at General Electric (GE),
Barrick Gold, and
Hewlett-Packard.
"Lumen has a tremendous arsenal of assets to help customers
realize their digital transformation goals," said Sham Chotai. "I'm
ready to work alongside my new team to radically simplify our
products, business processes, and IT to drive great customer
experiences."
As EVP, Enterprise Sales and Public Sector, Jay will be
responsible for helping Lumen national enterprise customers, as
well as federal, state, and local government agencies, build for
their digital future with Lumen solutions. Jay brings extensive
sales leadership experience in the technology industry, having led
multi-million-dollar global sales organizations at GE, Red Hat, and
EDB (EnterpriseDB).
"I am all about creating organizations grounded in teamwork,
trust, and transparency, with an eye toward driving sales growth
and delivering the best possible customer outcomes," said
Jay Barrows. "I'll be working with
the team on changes that will make it easier for our customers to
do business with us and easier for us to do the work it takes to
get there."
Lumen is also consolidating its marketing organizations and
aligning them to better support the customer experience under the
leadership of Ashley Haynes-Gaspar.
Ashley has extensive marketing experience, having served as Chief
Marketing Officer for two global divisions at GE, where she was
twice named their Marketer of the Year.
About Lumen Technologies
Lumen is guided by our belief that humanity is at its best when
technology advances the way we live and work. With approximately
400,000 route fiber miles and serving customers in more than 60
countries, we deliver the fastest, most secure platform for
applications and data to help businesses, government, and
communities deliver amazing experiences.
Learn more about the Lumen network, edge cloud, security,
communication, and collaboration solutions and our purpose to
further human progress through technology
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