Mark Pinto, current EVP of the Energy and Environmental Solutions unit will leave the company, as will Tom Edman, who is group vice president of the display business.

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When asked about where he sees opportunities as a global investor, aside from being bullish on telecom, Slim said that industries ripe for investment include housing, infrastructure, mining, food, oil, energy, medicine and ones that provide environmental solutions.

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The company has joined the Alliance to Save Energy and the Digital Energy Solutions Campaign (DESC), a group of tech companies working on environmental issues.

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Regular readers of this blog will remember Petropoulos as one of 51 Climate Corp Fellows who trained with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) last summer and interned with host companies to work on energy efficiency solutions.

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