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Lorraine Twigg

Lorraine Twigg is currently VP Global Strategic Partners and Alliances at Nokia within the Network Infrastructure division. In her role here she has Global responsibility for Distribution Strategy, Sales and Global Strategic Partnerships.  It is recognized top down at Nokia that Partners, more than ever, play a critical role in Nokia’s reach and coverage both from a market and vertical standpoint and in her role within Nokia NI Lorraine is actively part of the transformation ahead of us to enable a strong partner eco-system. 

Lorraine joins Nokia as part of the acquisition of Infinera earlier in 2025, where she held the position of  Global Vice President of Channel Partners for the entire business.  In this position she was responsible for Sales, Strategy, and Development of the partner business worldwide as well as ownership of the  Partner Plus program in support of the partner business.    Prior to this Lorraine was Vice President of Partners EMEA also at Infinera  

She is a strong believer in collaboration as the key to success, helping to build the best eco-systems for us all to thrive in, and is excited to be part of developing a new wave of partnerships which will play an intrinsic part of enabling open networks for the worlds largest consumers of Network Infrastructure with the exponential rise in AI driving Data Centre transformation across Cloud, Enterprise and Service Provider customers. 

Lorraine has held various roles previously in the Telecom’s and IT industry that have seen her leading sales and business development both direct and indirect across Carrier and Enterprise sectors and have included various disciplines from Voice, Networking, Mobile, CPaaS and IoT throughout her career.   

She has a Masters Degree in Business Administration and is passionate about supporting equality and diversity in the Telecoms and IT sector having spent 30 years in this industry.