Lumen Technologies Appoints Jim Ortbals as Senior Vice President of Global Partner Solutions

Published: 2026-04-13 14:50:49 ET LUMN

Published on 04/13/2026 at 02:50 pm EDT

Lumen Technologies announced that Jim Ortbals will join the company as Senior Vice President of Global Partner Solutions (GPS). Ortbals will lead Lumen?s channel partner strategy and execution, with responsibility for strengthening how the company engages, enables, and scales outcomes through this critical part of its commercial approach. Ortbals brings more than 25 years of experience growing global channel and partner organizations across complex technology and services environments.

He has held leadership roles at Cisco, VMware, Zscaler and others, with a track record of connecting channel partner strategy to operational rigor in support of customer outcomes.