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John Kritzmacher
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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John Kritzmacher, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Global Crossing Limited, joined Global Crossing in October 2008 and is responsible for all of the company's financial operations, including finance, accounting, treasury, tax, procurement, and investor relations.
Mr. Kritzmacher previously served as chief financial officer at Lucent Technologies, where he managed the traditional finance functions, including financial planning and performance management, mergers and acquisitions, treasury, tax, internal audit and investor relations, as well as global real estate. Before becoming chief financial officer at Lucent, Mr. Kritzmacher rose through a variety of positions with increasing responsibility during his 10 years at the company, including senior vice president and corporate controller, and vice president of planning and business analysis.
After playing a senior role in the planning and execution of Lucent's merger with Alcatel, Mr. Kritzmacher became chief operating officer of the Services Business Group at Alcatel-Lucent, a business with approximately $5 billion in annual revenues. While there, he transformed a diverse suite of existing Alcatel and Lucent service functions into a unified global services organization. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kritzmacher advanced rapidly through a series of roles at Lucent's predecessor, AT&T Network Systems
Mr. Kritzmacher earned a BA degree in mathematics and economics at Dartmouth College, and went on to earn an MBA in accounting at New York University Stern School of Business.
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