Alcatel-Lucent CIO Elizabeth Hackenson Joins Board of Directors of LGS Subsidiary

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LGS, a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent dedicated to serving the U.S. government community, today announced Alcatel-Lucent CIO Elizabeth Hackenson will join the LGS Board of Directors.

Prior to the merger with Alcatel, Hackenson was the Chief Information Officer for Lucent Technologies. Before joining Lucent in April 2006, Hackenson held the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for MCI.

In 2005, Computer World named Elizabeth Hackenson one of its top 100 premier IT leaders. The Washington Post named her one of the top 200 female executives in 2004 and Information Week ranked the department she led as one of the top 100 for IT leadership.

The LGS Board includes four outside directors, two inside directors from Alcatel-Lucent and one internal director from LGS. Hackenson replaces Frank D’Amelio, former Chief Administrative Officer for Alcatel-Lucent, who recently left the company.

The four outside directors for the LGS board remain unchanged and are: Dr. William Perry, R. James Woolsey, Kenneth A. Minihan and Dr. Lee Buchanan. Elizabeth Hackenson and Hubert de Pesquidoux are the Alcatel-Lucent directors, and Ron Iverson is the LGS officer director.

“This is a wonderful time to have Elizabeth bring her extensive experience as a CIO to our board,” said Ron Iverson, CEO, LGS. “As we continue to look for ways to help the U.S. government solve its unique communications challenges, Elizabeth’s years of experience and her deep understanding of how the communications and data needs of large complex organizations work will be invaluable.”

Hackenson currently leads an organization of some 2,200 people at Alcatel-Lucent and her organization has been responsible for merging the IT and communications systems that now serve some 80,000 employees. In the 10 months since the merger of Alcatel and Lucent, her team has integrated both company networks, consolidated data centers, rationalized investment portfolio and developed plans for application consolidation.

LGS, headquartered in Vienna, Va., and with offices in California, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey and North Carolina, was created by joining the Lucent and Alcatel Government business units and Bell Labs Government. LGS is the sole sales and contracting channel for Alcatel-Lucent for all classified and unclassified business contracted from U.S. federal agencies and departments, both military and civilian.

For more complete background on the LGS Board of Directors visit http://www.lgsinnovations.com/management.

About LGS

LGS designs and delivers Transformed Communications and R&D-based technology solutions to the U.S. government community. Leveraging the world-class R&D of Bell Labs and innovation of Alcatel-Lucent, with global reach and expertise, LGS challenges itself to solve the unsolvable and deliver secure, reliable, standards-based solutions to its customers. For more information about LGS visit www.LGSinnovations.com.