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Avaya UK has poached Huawei Enterprise veep Simon Culmer to replace managing director Andrew Shepperd less than 10 months into his tenure, The Register can reveal. Culmer, who also had a nine-month spell as UK veep at the enterprise wing of Huawei starting last summer, built a UK management team including the recruitment of …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Facepalm

    Avaya

    Voo-Va-Voo!

    </ Vic Reeves>

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "In an Eastern company there is a lot of responsibility and accountability but I didn't have as much authority, and needed to work through a set of filters which meant things don't get done as quickly,"

    Translation: When I said "jump", people didn't say "how high".

  3. Ilgaz

    He is wrong

    Huawei is running with military rules, I am not saying it as a part of non ethical red scare campaign by sock puppets of their rivals.

    Zte is the one with government style. I really don't care as a customer.

  4. Anna Logg

    @Taylor 1

    Having worked for Far Eastern companies I suspect it's more a case of lack of local authority to change anything without consulting a vast range of managers back at HQ.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Facepalm

    "High Touch Sales?"

    Does anybody understand the language these people speak?

    I suppose other sales/marketing people must

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