ANDREW EDISON CITES FOCUS ON CUSTOMERS AND PROFITABLE GROWTH AS PRIORITIES
May 19, 2015
LONDON, May 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Global network services company Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) announced that effective today, Andrew Edison joins Level 3 as the Senior Vice President Sales, EMEA, leading all sales channels across the region and servicing enterprise, government and wholesale customers. Edison brings significant global experience in growing businesses profitably to Level 3, gained throughout his extensive career and most recently at AT&T as Region Vice President, Head – Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
With the selection of Edison, a strong industry leader, Level 3 reaffirms its commitment to maximising market growth opportunities in EMEA. In November last year, Level 3 appointed one of the company’s most experienced and proven regional leaders, Andrew Crouch, to take the helm as its EMEA regional president. Commenting on this additional appointment, Crouch said, “Andrew Edison has a proven track record and will play a key leadership role across our EMEA business. I look forward to the contributions he will make.”
Edison joins Level 3 after 20 years with AT&T. His accomplishments in his most recent EMEA role include revenue and market share growth in the primary markets Level 3 serves, with particular experience across Continental Europe.
“My focus at Level 3 will be two fold; to provide our customers with solutions that support their business objectives around growth, efficiency and security as well as to bring profitable growth for Level 3 through effective sales channels across the region,” said Edison. Commenting on his reasons for taking the Level 3 role Edison added: “Joining Level 3 enables me to leverage its global network footprint, an asset crucial to solving the growing connectivity, collaboration and business process challenges enterprises face today.”
While at AT&T, Edison worked in the US for three years (2007-2010) as the Vice President, Global Operations Planning. He also held multiple roles in their Paris office from 2002-2007.
Edison began his telecoms career with BT. He is a native of the UK and a respected technology industry advocate who has contributed to the Prince’s Trust as a Technology Leadership Group member.
Edison will be based at Level 3’s EMEA regional headquarters in London. In EMEA, Level 3 serves customers in more than 30 countries. Level 3 solutions include IP-based voice and data communications; data center and colocation facilities; video and content distribution; security, cloud, managed and professional services.
About Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) is a Fortune 500 company that provides local, national and global communications services to enterprise, government and carrier customers. Level 3’s comprehensive portfolio of secure, managed solutions includes fiber and infrastructure solutions; IP-based voice and data communications; wide-area Ethernet services; video and content distribution; data center and cloud-based solutions. Level 3 serves customers in more than 500 markets in over 60 countries across a global services platform anchored by owned fiber networks on three continents and connected by extensive undersea facilities. For more information, please visit http://www.level3.com/ or get to know us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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Some statements made in this press release are forward-looking in nature and are based on management’s current expectations or beliefs. These forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of performance and are subject to a number of uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside Level 3’s control, which could cause actual events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the statements. Important factors that could prevent Level 3 from achieving its stated goals include, but are not limited to, the company’s ability to: successfully integrate the tw telecom acquisition; manage risks associated with continued uncertainty in the global economy; increase revenue from its services to realize its targets for financial and operating performance; maintain and increase traffic on its network; develop and maintain effective business support systems; manage system and network failures or disruptions; avert the breach of its network and computer system security measures; develop new services that meet customer demands and generate acceptable margins; manage the future expansion or adaptation of its network to remain competitive; defend intellectual property and proprietary rights; manage continued or accelerated decreases in market pricing for communications services; obtain capacity for its network from other providers and interconnect its network with other networks on favorable terms; attract and retain qualified management and other personnel; successfully integrate future acquisitions; effectively manage political, legal, regulatory, foreign currency and other risks it is exposed to due to its substantial international operations; mitigate its exposure to contingent liabilities; and meet all of the terms and conditions of its debt obligations. Additional information concerning these and other important factors can be found within Level 3’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements in this press release should be evaluated in light of these important factors. Level 3 is under no obligation to, and expressly disclaims any such obligation to, update or alter its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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