Florham Park, NJ -- October 25, 2004 -- Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) today announced the appointment of Pieter Duijves as managing director of Europe with responsibility for expanding the company's customer base and product portfolio in continental Europe and the Republic of Ireland.
Based in Amsterdam, Duijves will retain his existing responsibilities for strategic and European vendor management. In his new role, Duijves will manage operations in ten European countries connected by Global Crossing's 31-city mainland European network.
John Legere, Global Crossing's CEO, said: "Pieter takes on this new role with the specific task of expanding our presence in the European market. With our 25,000-km mainland European network running at 99.999 percent availability, we have the perfect platform for expanding our presence in both the enterprise and wholesale markets by taking an innovative approach to developing new routes to market."
Duijves, 47, steps into the position of managing director with 22 years' experience in the telecommunications industry. His most recent role at Global Crossing was vice president of Northern European operations, during which time he also oversaw strategic and European vendor management. He serves on the European leadership team and is managing director on the boards of several of Global Crossing's European subsidiaries.
Commenting on his objectives, Duijves said: "Expanding Global Crossing's presence in Europe requires a twin-track approach. We will continue to grow our share of enterprise customers through direct sales, while also developing indirect channels by working with systems integrators, local access providers and telcos who appreciate Global Crossing's capacity as a means to extend their network reach and service capabilities to 500 cities across the world."
"In the carrier space, we will leverage our relationships as a carriers' carrier to incumbents, tier-2 providers and mobile operators to drive the wholesale business with a focus on data. Our new Fast-Track Services™ -- a portfolio of white-label solutions -- open up new revenue opportunities. This suite of IP and data services enables operators to gain rapid market entry into regions beyond their network reach."
Previous positions held by Duijves include vice president of network implementation and service operations, during which time he was responsible for the implementation of the pan-European network. This included engineering, construction, integration, testing and overall project management. His duties entailed the management of equipment suppliers and civil construction companies to ensure the on-time delivery of five major network infrastructure projects throughout Europe. Before that, as executive director of southern Europe, Duijves established the Global Crossing organization in France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland.
At Lucent Technologies and AT&T Network Systems Duijves held several management positions. He was Lucent's director of product marketing EMEA for the optical networking group, a business unit generating revenues of $300 million in this region.
Mr. Duijves holds a degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University Delft.
Global Crossing
Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) provides telecommunications solutions over the world's first integrated global IP-based network. Its core network connects more than 300 cities and 30 countries worldwide, and delivers services to more than 500 major cities, 50 countries and 6 continents around the globe. The company's global sales and support model matches the network footprint and, like the network, delivers a consistent customer experience worldwide.
Global Crossing IP services are global in scale, linking the world's enterprises, governments and carriers with customers, employees and partners worldwide in a secure environment that is ideally suited for IP-based business applications, allowing e-commerce to thrive. The company offers a full range of managed data and voice products including Global Crossing IP VPN Service, Global Crossing Managed Services and Global Crossing VoIP services, to more than 40 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs.
