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Douglas L. Gilstrap
Senior Vice President, Group Function Strategy
Douglas L. Gilstrap joined Ericsson as the chief strategist in October 2009.
A 20-year veteran of the ICT industry, Gilstrap came to Ericsson after three years as strategic advisor for Cable & Wireless.
In 2000, he was named CEO of Radianz, where he led a team responsible for creating, building, and managing the largest financial extranet, providing a global IP network and hosting to the financial community. The company has been named Best Financial Network by a leading industry magazine for several years running.
Gilstrap began his career in the telecommunications and IT industry in 1991, when he joined SITA (Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques), a Paris-based data network cooperative serving the airline industry. There, he worked to bring private equity together to spin off business that became Equant, where he eventually worked as CFO then COO. Equant Network Services become one of the world’s leading data/IP networking companies and Gilstrap was instrumental in leading the company's initial public offering in 1998.
Gilstrap holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from the University of Richmond and a Master of Business Administration from Emory University in Atlanta. He has also attended the select executive program at Insead, France.
