Catherine Lefevre

Catherine Lefèvre is the R&D Chief Technical Officer in Alcatel-Lucent’s Application Enablement Solutions Division.

She received her master’s degree in computer science and her qualified teaching’s degree in computer science in 1996 from the University of Namur (FUNDP) in Belgium.

After graduation, she became a full-time Software Development Engineer working for Alcatel, implementing projects for the Belgian operator called Belgacom. She later moved on to a role as a Service Design Engineer in the context of the British Telecom market to finally reach the level of Technical Market Responsible in the Intelligent Networks domain.

Since February 2006, she has been identified as a High Potential for the Alcatel-Lucent company. She has performed some internal career moves resulting in significant changes in project management and customer focus, being exposed to the Corporate Executive Board. She had an opportunity to go to the Manchester Business School in order to follow an executive education in order to improve her knowledge from marketing, financial, project management perspectives.

In 2008, she received the Purple Star Award in the context of the Benelux business within RU North & West Europe. In 2009, she was one of the Nominees as Benelux People Leader of the Year and was the first finalist lady.

In 2009, she was one of the Founding members of the Smart Metering Alcatel-Lucent Venture team, utilizing some of her awarded patents. She has explored a potential business in the utility domain focusing on the Smart Metering, meeting meter manufacturers and third party companies in order to build a new product. She therefore become an expert in meter management and meter protocols like C12.X and DLMS (Device Language Message specification)/COSEM (COmpanion Specification for Energy Metering).

She is a Member of the Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy since 2010.

5 characteristics: Customer Focused, Accountability, Teamwork, Entrepreneurship, Decisiveness