Patrick Plas joins Alstom Grid

Patrick Plas will join Alstom Gridthe Groups power transmission sectoron 1 March 2012 as SVP for Electronics & Automation. He will report to Alstom Grid President Grégoire Poux-Guillaume. Mr Plas is a member of the Alstom Grid Management Committee and previously held a range of responsibilities at Alcatel-Lucent. 

Patrick Plas (44) is a graduate of France's Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. He began his career in research & development at France Telecom in 1992 before being appointed Network Director for Orange Romania, based in Bucharest. He joined Alcatel in 2000 as programme director for SFR and took up a position in Moscow as VP for Mobile Networks across Central and Eastern Europe in 2003. Mr Plas was appointed VP in charge of the company's W-CDMA (UMTS) product group in 2007 and became Chief Operating Officer of the Wireless division in 2009. He was named VP for Advanced Communication Solutions in 2010.

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