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Telesmart: Leadership Change
Telesmart appointed Carl Roberts (30+ years telecom wholesale experience, former Verizon Business group VP, Epsilon CCO) as chairman. Roberts brought in to lead strategic go-to-market expansion across Tier 1 carriers and digital service providers globally.
Source: Capacity Media
The leadership read
Leadership transitions often precede broader telecommunications bench-strengthening over the next two quarters.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 111.2 (Hot) (up 5.2 month-on-month), EMEA is at easing (-4.4pts) on signal share.
Telesmart: 1 signal in the last 90 days — in line with the Telecommunications median of 1 across 51 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow.
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