But the plot of the episode is secondaryNovartis GSK or other AstraZeneca have doneToday the definition of own funds is not uniform in the UnionA too play on offer is neglected the applicationThe unsuccessful will be many including in the ranks of the French banksFinally the money of the State falls lessSome 33 million viewers were present at the meetingThe alloys domestic production sites are mainly in France and Sweden000 containers equivalent twenty feet against 1Making so many less control for manufacturersThis is the end of a turbulent reign long 13 years. Serge Tchuruk permanently left Alcatel-Lucent tomorrow. Output by the small door to that which had been allowed as a Savior arriving in Alcatel-Alsthom in 1995. At the age of seventy, the Beauvoir today pay taunts of the merger between Alcatel and Lucent he wanted badly and put on track two years ago. This transatlantic operation between French equipment manufacturer and its American counterpart was supposed to mark the culmination of the Alcatel refocusing on telecoms trades. She turned to nightmare... but its architect assumes: "I claim the strategy," explained yet Serge Tchuruk at the "Figaro" a month ago.
The fate of the President of the Board of Directors of Alcatel-Lucent and the Executive Director, Patricia Russo, is played on Sunday, July 27 at a hotel in Murray Hill (New Jersey), near the former headquarters of Lucent. The directors of the manufacturer is there met informally, on the eve of the Council to validate the accounts of the second quarter. On the menu: "Governance in Alcatel-Lucent", says an administrator. "The purpose of the meeting was not resign Serge Tchuruk and Patricia Russo but the impact of their poor relations on the proper functioning of the company." Mis en cause, the tandem not attend only a small part of the meeting...
The board is surrounded by a mediator in the person of Ezra Suleiman. Political science professor at Princeton University, Member of the Governance Committee of AXA, francophile American met several times with Serge Tchuruk and Patricia Russo in the previous weeks. "The crisis between the two leaders was to climax, explains a good connoisseur of the record." Pat Russo had cut the tap to Serge Tchuruk information because she felt that he was doing her shadow. Conversely, Serge Tchuruk had the impression to be totally on the key.
This Sunday at Murray Hill, Ezra Suleiman makes its findings administrators: relations between the two leaders are deadlocked. Viewed one after the other by the directors, the two leaders camping on their positions: each decided to stay in his position, requires the departure of the other. It is without the two interested parties that 12 administrators will decide their fate.
Impossible tandem
"The status quo was not sustainable, must be," says a source. Need to separate the tandem or only Patricia Russo With 5 ex-Alcatel and 2 other European directors, Serge Tchuruk can still hope to save his skin. Pat Russo, it cannot count on the support of ex-Lucent 5 administrators. But change in the last minute: an ex-Alcatel joined the camp of the ex-Lucent. They are now 6 against 6. To avoid the blockade, "the decision to separate from the tandem is made on Sunday evening", says a close. The next Council officially endorses the verdict. And on Tuesday morning, a press release makes public information. Serge Tchuruk "has decided to resign on October 1". As Patricia Russo, she "resign" by the end of the year...
Alcatel-Lucent again enters a zone of turbulence. The board is a month to find a new boss who knows the business and be able to define a new strategy. Soon, Ben Verwaayen and Mike Quigley are identified as potential successors to Pat Russo. The first left the operator BT late May and was Vice President of Lucent before; the second has climbed all levels of Alcatel to become Serge Tchuruk dauphin. To replace him as President of the Board of Directors, the idea is to find a French. A condition: "That he did not his entire career in telecoms with the temptation to put his nose in the operational"... as Tchuruk. Mid-August, the name of Philippe Camus, the ex-co-CEO of EADS, is required.
Thierry Breton changed
But another candidate invites in the part: Thierry Breton, former Minister of finance and ex-PDG of France Telecom. The latter argues for a reunification of the positions of Chairman and Managing Director. Las, despite contact with Serge Tchuruk and weight (Michel Pebereau and Claude Bébéar,...) support, his candidacy is not to the taste of Directors Alcatel and including Daniel Bernard, the Carrefour ex-PDG who chairs the Nominating Committee. September 1, the case is heard. A Board of directors unanimously approves the appointment of Ben Verwaayen to the post of Director-General and Philippe Camus as President. The next day morning, the new tandem arrives at the headquarters of Alcatel-Lucent, rue La Boétie in Paris. With the heavy task of reviving the Group turning page Tchuruk.
