Nortel Networks' VP and general manager of network partner solutions John Haydon is leaving that position for the president and COO role at BreconRidge Manufacturing Solutions Corp., an Ottawa electronics manufacturing and design services firm. According to BreconRidge, Haydon spent 25 years at Nortel building experience in procurement, manufacturing field operations, customer service and marketing.

Haydon is the latest in a string of executives to leave Nortel recently. Chief financial officer Peter Currie stepped down in April, and Susan Shepard, Nortel's chief ethics officer, left in late-2006.