Vice-President, Managed Services

Lucent Worldwide Services

As Vice-President of Managed Services for Lucent Worldwide Services, Andrew Rabhan develops new managed service models for service provider clients interested in designing, deploying and managing a next generation network. In this capacity, Rabhan draws on more than 25 years of experience managing business development, growth, and marketing issues for service providers and managed services companies in North America, Europe, and Australia.

Rabhan joins LWS after an impressive tenure at Ericsson, which included several executive-level postings in Services Solutions, Business Development, and Partners and Alliances. Most recently, Rabhan served as Ericsson’s Vice-President of Service Solutions, where he presided over 123% year-over-year growth in the company’s Managed Services business and 400% growth year-over-year in their managed hosting services solution. During his entire tenure at Ericsson, Rabhan consistently delivered impressive financial results—regularly exceeding sales targets and instituting a partnership program that yielded more than $50M in new business and reduced supply chain costs by more than 20%.

During his 26-year career in telecommunications and services, Rabhan has held a number of leadership positions with other key industry players, including Ericsson Microsoft Mobile Venture, GTE Wireless, BellSouth Mobile Data, Gearhart Australia Limited and Schlumberger Offshore Services. His extensive partnering and alliance expertise also includes a stint as Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Bulletin.net, a provider of wireless enterprise and consumer messaging products. Early in his career, Rabhan served as Partner and General Manager for Sonotech, Inc. There, he was instrumental in negotiating the joint ventures, research contracts, and field test agreements that transformed Sonotech, Inc. from a start-up company to a recognized leader in its field.

When not engaged with his service provider clients, Rabhan shares his financial management and alliance expertise with his local community. He currently serves as Board Member and Treasurer for the Plano International Preschool, a non-profit institute that provides high-quality early childhood education to economically disadvantaged children from 25 countries.

His wide-ranging experience ensures Rabhan a ready audience at industry events worldwide, when he discusses the future of the wireless industry and how companies can avoid future commoditization by maximizing their partnership, alliance, and supply chain relationships. 

A Chartered Financial Analyst, Rabhan holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke.