Members of the Board

Albert Innou

Albert Innou brings wide-ranging industry experience spanning over 20 years of telecommunication in Product & Network Management and Business development in over 35 countries and 4 continents, including Americas, EMEA, China and Japon prior to his role of Executive at AIRD Telecom Inc.

Albert was in charge of Product Marketing in the Nortel’s Carrier Networks Group, he held also numerous Product Management leadership positions in his 15 years at Nortel Networks. Most notably, he led the Market facing Product Line Management of Nortel’s wireless voice core portfolio for EMEA & ASIA Regions, including OMCs, Network Management Systems, VOIP softswitches, Media Gateways, and IMS products. Prior to Nortel Networks, Albert spent 10 years between Bell Canada and Alcatel Trade International, starting his career with Bell Canada and Bell Canada International as Network Services and Technology Development Director respectively. He was in charge of CO’s Toll Network Services engineering and the development of several network applications such High Performance Routing across Canada and Network Management for Quebec and Ontario regions. Albert worked also for Alcatel France and Alcatel Canada as Project Manager of Trade International’s business unit, he was in charge of Voice Network infrastructures positioning in EMEA and Asia markets as well as Product Management and business development Director of Alcatel Canada. Albert is Council Member of GL Group (Gerson Lehrman Group) (http://www.glgroup.com/) and is Contributor's representative of SCOPE Alliance (http://www.scope-alliance.org/).

Albert holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal and an MBA from ESCP-EAP European School of Management.