Mavenir loses open RAN zealot John Baker amid wider job cuts
John Baker, a long-serving open RAN executive at Mavenir, is out of the company and sources say other RAN engineering jobs are being cut.
December 24, 2024
To executives on the trade show circuit, John Baker has been one of the most familiar faces in the industry ever since the days when open RAN was just a bawling toddler. As senior vice president of business development for Mavenir, Baker was an outspoken advocate of the fledging concept long before Ericsson joined the faith and seemingly became the world's biggest open RAN vendor. But he has now quit Mavenir amid reports of wider job cuts as the US company struggles to remain afloat.
The circumstances surrounding Baker's departure remain unclear and he did not respond to a LinkedIn approach, but his exit was confirmed earlier today by Mavenir after a tip-off by sources. "We can acknowledge that John Baker has left Mavenir," said a spokesperson by email. "Furthermore, Mavenir continues to invest in open RAN to meet our customer requirements and any changes being made in the RAN BU [business unit] is line with our strategic long-term plans."
Baker joined Mavenir in 2017 from a senior management role at Spirent Communications and previously spent eight years at CommScope. The long-serving industry executive began his telecom career in the 1980s at Vodafone, according to his LinkedIn profile, before joining Nokia as a general manager. For anyone interested in open RAN (standing for radio access network), he was the go-to person at Mavenir.
Sources have also indicated that Mavenir is cutting a substantial number of RAN engineering jobs in the US and India. Mavenir did not address those reports directly in its emailed response to Light Reading, but they come several weeks after the company was downgraded by ratings agencies.
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