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Allison Cerra brings more than 15 years of telecommunications industry experience within service and equipment provider organizations to her position as Chief Marketing Officer for the Americas region at Alcatel-Lucent. In this role, Ms. Cerra is responsible for regional marketing activities to support service providers in the areas of strategic and customer marketing, operations, intelligence, and communications.

Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent, Ms. Cerra served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Frontier Communications, responsible for access lines, high-speed Internet, video and wireless products across seven states. She also held senior management positions at GTE Network Services and, after its acquisition, for Verizon Communications, with activity in the areas of DSL, ISDN, IPTV infrastructure, fixed and mobile communications, and entertainment services.

She also served as Vice President of Marketing Communications with Alcatel North America.

Allison Cerra holds a bachelor’s of science degree from the University of South Florida, and master’s degrees in business administration and telecommunications from Southern Methodist University.

Previous speaking engagements include the West Virginia Higher Education Technology Conference and the Broadband Services Forum. She has contributed articles for the IEC, Converge Digest, and the FTTH Council.