John Doolittle is currently Senior Vice President Finance & Corporate Services responsible for Treasury, Legal, Corporate Control, Tax, Pensions, Government Relations, Corporate Communications, Corporate FP&A and Internal Audit.

John has been Treasurer since June 2008. Prior to that John's leadership roles included Vice President and Global Leader of Financial Planning and Analysis, Vice President of Taxation and Vice President and Assistant Treasurer.

John returned to Nortel in September 1999 after having spent two years as Vice President, Finance with Bank of Montreal's Global Treasury Group. Prior to joining the Bank, John spent eight years at Nortel with roles in Tax, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning & Analysis and two years in Europe managing Treasury for Europe and Asia.

John is a member of the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants.



Chris Ricaurte is currently President, Nortel Business Services .



George Riedel is Chief Strategy Officer for Nortel.

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Riedel is responsible for leading the Company's corporate strategy including business development and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, Riedel's focus includes emerging technologies, market opportunities and strategic partnerships as well as driving all related key decision-making processes for Nortel.

Prior to joining Nortel, Riedel was vice president, strategy and corporate development for Juniper Networks, leading corporate strategy, business development and mergers and acquisitions. His previous career experience includes 15 years at the management consulting firm of McKinsey and Company, where he co-led telecom and high-tech practices in North America and Asia. He has also served as an engineering manager at Exxon Co. USA.

Riedel holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with distinction from the University of Virginia. He is based at Nortel's headquarters in Toronto.

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Jalynn H. Bennett is President of Jalynn H. Bennett and Associates Ltd., a consulting firm in strategic planning and organizational development in both the public and private sectors. Prior to establishing that firm, Mrs. Bennett was associated for nearly 25 years with The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company. Mrs. Bennett is currently a director of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited and Teck Cominco Ltd. She is also a director of The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation. She is a member of the Lawrence National Centre for Policy and Management Advisory Council, Richard Ivey School of Business; the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation; the Schulich School of Business and International Advisory Board, York University; the Toronto Society of Financial Analysts; the Toronto Association of Business Economists; the Governance Leadership Council of the Ontario Hospital Association; the National Advisory Board, Canada's Outstanding CEO of the Year and a Member of the Trinity College Endowment Campaign Cabinet. She is a fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors in Canada, a past Commissioner of the Ontario Securities Commission and was a member of the Toronto Stock Exchange, Canadian Stock Exchange and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants' Joint Committee on Corporate Governance (The Saucier Committee).

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John Alan MacNaughton, C.M., served as the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, a Crown Corporation created by an Act of Parliament to invest the assets of the Canada Pension Plan, from 1999 until his retirement in 2005. He was President of Nesbitt Burns Inc., the investment banking arm of Bank of Montreal, from 1994 to 1999. Mr. MacNaughton is Chairman of Canadian Trading and Quotation System Inc. He is a Trustee of the University Health Network, an academic health science centre. He is a Governor of CCAF-FCVI Inc., a research and education foundation focused on governance, accountability, management and audit in the public sector. Mr. MacNaughton is Chairman of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.

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David I. Richardson is a corporate director. He is Chairman of the Board of Air Canada and a Director and Chair of the Audit Committee of ACE Aviation Holdings Inc. Mr. Richardson is the former Chairman of Ernst & Young Inc. (Canada) and a former Executive Partner of Ernst & Young LLP. Mr. Richardson was also a member of the Management and Executive Committees of Ernst & Young LLP, national managing partner of the firm's Corporate Finance practice and the senior partner in the corporate recovery and restructuring practice until his retirement from the partnership in 2002.