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Kodak board elects Susan Tousi as VP
Eastman Kodak Company has informed that its board of directors has elected Susan Tousi as a Vice President of the company, effective immediately. Tousi, 40, is General Manager of Consumer Inkjet Systems, a position she has held since 2007, when Kodak launched its line of inkjet printers. Tousi previously served as R&D manager for Kodak’s [...]
Mike DeGraw to lead Deltacom’s Wholesale sales
ITC DeltaCom, a provider of integrated communications services to customers in the southeastern United States, has named Mike DeGraw as Senior Vice President of Wholesale Sales. DeGraw was previously president and co-owner of Huntington Telecom, an international wholesale voice operator. DeGraw brings over seventeen years of sales strategy, business development and corporate leadership experience in [...]
Palm unveils ‘Artist Series’ Pixi phone
Palm has introduced the Palm Pixi phone – the second handset in its webOS range – for ‘intuitive and personal communication’. It is scheduled to be available exclusively from Sprint before Christmas. In addition to linking information from Google, Facebook and Exchange ActiveSync, Palm Pixi adds Yahoo and LinkedIn integration to Palm Synergy and assembles [...]
Alca-Lu appoints Subhash Bana as VP R&D for India
Alcatel-Lucent has announced the appointment of Subhash Bana as vice president R&D reporting to Vivek Mohan, managing director of Alcatel-Lucent India. In his new role, Subhash will be responsible for improving engineering performance across the carrier and applications software activities, including R&D service delivery, quality and innovation enhancing support to the Indian customers. He will [...]
Rajeev Suri appointed CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks
The Nokia Siemens Networks Board of Directors has appointed Rajeev Suri as Chief Executive Officer, effective 1 October 2009. Suri succeeds Simon Beresford-Wylie, who will support Suri during a transition period through 1 November before leaving the company. Beresford-Wylie will leave the Nokia Group Executive Board as of 30 September 2009. Suri will be based [...]
LG Electronics USA appoints Vandenbree Sr VP
Jay Vandenbree is joining LG Electronics USA in the newly-created position of Senior Vice President, Go-to-Market Operations, reporting to Teddy Hwang, President of LG Electronics USA. Vandenbree, a long-time Sony Electronics executive, will be responsible for key sales support activities including product management, pricing, promotion, channel merchandising and market analysis for LG’s home entertainment and [...]
Robert Andersson to head Nokia’s corporate development office
Nokia has announced that Robert Andersson, who currently heads Finance, Strategy and Strategic Sourcing in the Devices unit, will leave the Group Exective Board as of 30 September 2009 in connection with his transfer to new duties in the Corporate Development Office as of 1 October 2009. He will head the Corporate Alliances and Business [...]
Ericsson’s Bert Nordberg appointed President of Sony Ericsson
Ericsson’s Executive Vice President Bert Nordberg has been appointed President of Sony Ericsson as of 15 October 2009. He will join Sony Ericsson on 1 September 2009, to take on the position as Co-President. Bert Nordberg is presently also head of Ericsson Silicon Valley. He will leave his positions in Ericsson when he joins Sony [...]
MySpace to acquire iLike
MySpace has announced an agreement to acquire iLike, a social music discovery service. Brothers Ali and Hadi Partovi founded iLike in 2006. The entire iLike team will stay intact including, CEO Ali Partovi, President Hadi Partovi and CTO Nat Brown. MySpace noted that all three are seasoned entrepreneurs who havrve held executive positions at both [...]
David Orton appointed CEO of Aptina
Aptina has appointed David Orton as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the company’s Board of Directors. He will assume his new responsibilities starting 5 August 2009. David Orton succeeds Nicholas Brathwaite who has been the CEO since April 2008 and who will assume the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors for [...]
