Nortel names Roese CTO

Nortel this week named industry veteran John Roese as its chief technology officer.

Roese will be responsible for the company's overall R&D strategy and execution, directing future research across all products. In addition, he will work with Chief Strategy Officer George Riedel on emerging technologies, market opportunities and strategic partnerships.

Roese is the final appointment to CEO Mike Zafirovski's senior leadership cabinet. Zafirovski began building that cabinet shortly after he was named Nortel CEO last year.

Roese has almost two decades of experience in networking and security, VoIP, wireless technology and machine-to-machine communications. In addition, Roese is the inventor on 16 granted and pending patents in the area of policy management, location-based networking and other areas of communications.

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Nortel this week named industry veteran John Roese as its chief technology officer.

Roese will be responsible for the company's overall R&D strategy and execution, directing future research across all products. In addition, he will work with Chief Strategy Officer George Riedel on emerging technologies, market opportunities and strategic partnerships.

Roese is the final appointment to CEO Mike Zafirovski's senior leadership cabinet. Zafirovski began building that cabinet shortly after he was named Nortel CEO last year.

Roese has almost two decades of experience in networking and security, VoIP, wireless technology and machine-to-machine communications. In addition, Roese is the inventor on 16 granted and pending patents in the area of policy management, location-based networking and other areas of communications.

Roese joins Nortel from Broadcom, where he was vice president and CTO for networking technologies with a focus on unified communications. Previously, he was executive vice president and CTO at Enterasys Networks, and CTO of Enterasys predecessor Cabletron.

At Nortel, Roese will lead technology strategy for a company with more than 12,000 engineers and developers. He will be based in Nortel's R&D headquarters in Ottawa and report directly to Zafirovski.

His appointment is effective June 28.