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William Priest is senior vice president of Global Marketing and Partnerships at Equant.
William's overall mission is to drive the evolution of the company's strategic direction and contribute successfully to the execution of that direction by leading the Marketing and External Communications Portfolio Management and Partnership groups.
Based in Slough and Paris William reports to the CEO and is a member of the Executive Committee of Equant.
From January 2004 - December 2004 William was senior vice president of Global Products & Solutions. In this position he was responsible for the Equant product portfolio and service creation.
Previously William was vice president of Equant Professional Services for North America from July - December 2003.
In that role he led the 200-member Professional Services group and achieved 120 percent of the NAM Professional Services revenue goal.
Prior to that William was director of Professional Service for U.K. and Ireland from January 2002 - July 2003. During this time he achieved 100 percent of the Professional Service budget in revenue and orders. In addition he established a direct consulting team with a specialist solutions team. He also established a consultative sales engagement model within Markets and Sales in the U.K.
Prior to joining Equant William held several strategic consulting positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers Ernst & Young and PA Consulting Group. He was also director of Strategy at AT&T-Unisource.
William is a chartered civil engineer with a master's degree in Engineering from Southampton University U.K. and earned a bachelor's degree with honors in Civil Engineering from Nottingham University U.K. | 