The Cable Directory

Monday, Jun 15, 2009

Milan, 15 June 2009 – Prysmian, a leading worldwide player in the energy and telecom cable market, announces the appointment of Hakan Özmen as the new Head of The Global Telecom Cable and Fibre Business. Mr Özmen will take office on July 1^st.

Born in 1970, Hakan Özmen graduated in Industrial Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in 1993 and obtained a Masters degree in Business Administration from Yeditepe University in Istanbul in 1999. For the last four years Mr Ozmen has been Chief Executive Officer of Prysmian Turkey.

Mr Ozmen succeeds Mr Giovanni B. Scotti who will leave the Company after 12 years, the last nine of which were spent as Head of The Global Telecom Cable and Fibre Business. Mr Scotti has had a long and distinguished carrier in the industrial sector, previously working for companies including Magneti Marelli and GE Plastics in various executive international roles.

Prysmian is a worldwide major supplier of optical fibre and telecommunication cables. With 13 production facilities worldwide, Prysmian supplies a comprehensive portfolio of products including Optical Fibre, Optical Cable, FTTx System Solutions, Connectivity Hardware, Copper Cable and Premises/Data Cables. Amongst some of Prysmian’s key customers are Barthi Airtel, British Telecom, France Telecom, Qwest, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telstra, Verizon and Vodafone. With the current global trend towards further broadband deployment Prysmian has recently been involved with major telecom operators in a number of strategic FTTH projects around the world.

Prysmian
A leading player in the industry of high-technology cables and systems for energy and telecommunication, the Prysmian Group is a truly global company with sales exceeding Euro 5 billion in 2008 and a strong position in higher value-added market segments. With its two businesses, Energy Cables & Systems (submarine and underground cables for power transmission and distribution, for industrial applications and for the distribution of electricity to residential and commercial buildings) and Telecom Cables & Systems (optical cables and fibres and copper cables for video, data and voice transmission), Prysmian boasts a global presence with subsidiaries in 38 countries, 53 plants in 21 countries, 7 Research & Development Centres in Europe, USA and South America, and over 12,000 employees. Specialising in the development of products and services designed to meet customers’ specific requirements, Prysmian’s key strengths include: a focus on Research & Development, the capacity to innovate products and production processes, and the use of advanced proprietary technologies. Prysmian is listed at the Milan Stock Exchange in the Blue Chip index.

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