President and CEO Mike Zafirovski continued to revamp the executive suite at Nortel as he announced the appointment of Joseph Flanagan as vice president, Order Management.

Flanagan will report to Joel Hackney, senior vice president, Global Supply Chain and Quality and will be responsible for leading and standardizing the Company's business-to-business processes, and driving increased efficiencies across operations systems. Flanagan, who has global responsibilities, will work closely with Nortel's sales operations teams to ensure tight alignment with the strategic direction of sales and marketing.

Flanagan comes to Nortel from GE, where for the past 13 years he has held positions of increasing responsibility, culminating in the post of General Manager of Operations for GE Consumer & Industrial in EMEA. At the same time, he served as Division leader for Six Sigma.