Adolfo Hernandez is President of the Alcatel-Lucent Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
Region. He is responsible for overseeing all of the company’s sales and operations in this region.
He is also a member of the Alcatel-Lucent management committee.
Most recently, Adolfo Hernandez served as Senior Vice President of Sun's Global Services
Practice. Before that, he served as President of Sun Microsystems Iberia from 2002 to 2006,
responsible for all aspects of sales business operations in Spain and Portugal.
Prior to joining Sun, Adolfo Hernandez co-founded his own company in the mobility solutions
software sector. Before that, he spent six years in London with IBM where he held a variety of
sales and management positions in the areas of eBusiness working with many
telecommunications, service providers in the adoption of e-business solutions. Adolfo Hernandez
also spent five years at IBM's European UNIX center in Munich, Germany. He started his sales
career at ICR in Spain.
Adolfo Hernandez holds a degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Granada, a
Masters degree in Marketing Management and an MBA in Strategic Management from IDE in
Madrid. He has also completed several post-graduate programs at institutions such as the
London Business School.
He was recently named Honorary Professor by the University of Seville, appointed to the
Advisory Board of the University of Granada, and named Spain's "2004 Executive of the Year"
by Computing Magazine