Joining the company in 2016 as Senior Vice President EUNO Region, Rukmini Glanard now heads the sales, services and marketing organisations for Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise worldwide.  Her passion for innovation, coupled with a deep understanding of business strategy and go-to-market has helped her drive the transformation of the teams she has been leading since 2019.

Rukmini has successfully led her large multicultural team through challenging times to achieve growth results, through building sustainable partner relationships, always focused on customer experience and needs. Rukmini believes in empowering people to achieve their potential; she is sponsor of ALE’s Together program, promoting diversity and inclusion and has recently initiated a mentoring program to help colleagues succeed.  

Rukmini is always a clear and direct communicator and is an experienced keynote speaker. 

Prior to joining ALE, Rukmini served as Vice President of Communications and Infrastructure Solution Line at Sita, the IT provider for the air transport industry. She held executive positions at Orange Business Services in International Business Operations Global Communications Services and Sales and Marketing Europe.