Ericsson Appoints New Vonage CEO

Ericsson’s problem child, Vonage, has a new CEO

Vonage has been something of a problem child for Ericsson since the vendor paid $6.2bn in mid-2022 Niklas Heuveldop has been trying to knock the business into shape since early 2024 Now he is leaving and being replaced by Ericsson’s current head of APIs, Christophe Van de Weyer

Ericsson names Christophe Van de Weyer as Vonage CEO

Ericsson has appointed Christophe Van de Weyer as Head of Business Area Global Communications Platform and CEO of Vonage. Van de Weyer joined Vonage in 2025 and grown its Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) and Network APIs business. Before joining Vonage, he was CEO of Telesign, a subsidiary of Proximus Group, and held several senior leadership roles at Proximus. He also spent nearly two decades at Bain & Company, where he was a partne…

Ericsson appoints new Vonage CEO

Ericsson named Christophe Van de Weyer as CEO of its Vonage cloud unit and head of Business Area Global Communications Platform, replacing Niklas Heuveldop who is stepping down after more than three decades with the company. Van de Weyer will also join Ericsson’s executive team. He started at Vonage in 2025 as head of its Business Unit API, where he led efforts to use programmable networks and advanced communication capabilities to accelerate en…