Patrick LOHAT

MY PROFESSIONAL GOAL: To lead new solutions for new businesses, to bring together energies around this common project.

WORK EXPERIENCE:
• 9 years experience as Product Manager; in the Telecom industry, more exactly in the wireless networks business; first in Nortel Networks (from 2001 to 2006), then in Alcatel-Lucent since 2007 (when Alcatel-Lucent acquired Nortel 3G/UTMS business).
• A meaningful experience in Strategic Marketing, during 18 months (from mid 2007 to end 2008), within the Alcatel-Lucent Wireless Business Group.
• Beforehand, 8 years in Alcatel R&D (from 1992 to 2000), during which I have managed several “system” teams, responsible for the definition, first of an OMC for transmission networks (1992 to 1996), then of the GSM Circuit Core Network (1996 to 2000).
• During that time, I was also one of Alcatel CIT delegates at ETSI, then at 3GPP, which is the standard body for GSM and UMTS systems (from 1997 to 2000).
• Previously, I had been working for 2 years in a Software House company, Steria Telecom, on Network Management platforms and solutions (from 1990 to 1992).
• My first job was in the Energy sector, in Cegelec, where I have been developing CAD/CAM software tools for 5 years (from 1985 to 1990).

CROSS DOMAIN SKILLS:
• International and multi-cultural environment: Europe, North America, Asia.
• Market analysis and Competitive intelligence; Definition of business growth strategy (products, end-to-end solutions, value added services, partnerships, innovative business models); Design of marketing plan.
• Team management, through hierarchical relationship and through project based organization.
• Project leadership; Suppliers relationship, identification and selection of partners, negotiation of commercial contracts, statement of work and technical annexes.
• Communication, presentations for internal purpose or for external audience.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:
• Sustainable development; interest materialized by 1) a professional thesis made at ESSEC about alternative solutions to road for freight transport (2007), 2) photovoltaic panels at home for producing and selling solar energy (2009), 3) my involvement in “The Internet of Energy” project (one of the projects selected by the 2009 Entrepreneurial Bootcamp set up by Alcatel-Lucent France and the ESCP Business School in Paris).
• Member of 2 professional alumni groups: SUPELEC IT & Telecoms, ESSEC Energy.

EDUCATION:
• SUPELEC, French “grande école”, Engineering School in the field of Information & Energy Sciences (1985).
• ESSEC, French business school, Specialized Master in Strategy & International Business (2007); made from mid 2005 to mid 2007, through a “part-time” model (i.e. in parallel to my Product Manager job at Nortel then at Alcatel-Lucent).
• Qualification in football training & coaching for youth teams (6 to 12 years old) (2003).