Dietmar Wendt, a 46-year-old IBM executive with extensive experience in services and technology leadership, will join Nortel as president of Global Services effective May 1, 2006.

Wendt will report directly to Mike Zafirovski, president and CEO of

Nortel. He will be responsible for Nortel's Global Services business,

including its financial performance, portfolio development and go-to-market

strategies. Nortel recently reinforced its commitment to growth in this

business with a sweeping simplification of its integrated services and a

series of new commercial services offerings.

"Dietmar knows what it takes to create and maintain a razor-sharp

business focus on services, one of the areas we have identified as key to

driving momentum and growth for Nortel," Zafirovski said. "He has managed

multi-billion dollar services and technology businesses. He has built and

nurtured global customer relationships. His leadership and experience will be

critical as we target growth in our revenue mix from services."

"Network-based services and solutions will be a key driver for future

economic growth and innovation across all industries around the world," Wendt

said. "These services and solutions have to be seamlessly connected and

integrated with clients' existing IT and telecommunications infrastructures.

Nortel is ideally positioned to address this need, and I'm excited to be

leading the dedicated team of Nortel professionals focused on making that

happen."

Wendt will join Nortel from IBM in Shanghai, China, where he is currently

vice president, Asia Pacific Information Technology Services Transformation.

Prior to that, Wendt was vice president, Integrated Technology Services for

IBM in Central Europe and Russia. He has also held a variety of executive

positions internationally with IBM in sales and product management.

Born and educated in Germany, Wendt speaks fluent German and English. He

will be based at Nortel's headquarters in Toronto.

Nortel's Global Services include a full range of integrated services for

design, deployment, management and maintenance of end-to-end multi-vendor

network solutions, including seamless migration to next generation

technologies.