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Xavier Gentric assumes senior sales role in Nevion
Nevion, a media transport solution provider for broadcasters, telecommunications service providers and government entities, has added Xavier Gentric to a senior sales role in western Europe. Based in France, Gentric will manage Nevion’s growth in the region, providing strategic sales and management of key customer relationships. Gentric brings project management and technical experience, including 13 [...]
Avistar appoints Bob Kirk as CEO
Avistar Communications, a player in unified visual communications solutions, announced the resignation of its CEO Simon Moss. In a press release, the company noted that with Avistar having completed its strategic, financial, product redesign and market repositioning during the last 18 months under Moss’ leadership, “he has decided to follow his career objectives and to [...]
Microtune to acquire Auvitek
Microtune has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Auvitek International. Under the terms of the agreement, Microtune will pay approximately $6.8m in cash and one million shares of Microtune stock, with a current value of approximately $2.2m, for the Auvitek business. The acquisition is expected to close during the month of [...]
Microsoft announces changes at the helm
Microsoft has promoted Steven Sinofsky to president of the Windows Division. Sinofsky, a 20-year Microsoft veteran, most recently led the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, contributing to the 22 October availability of Windows 7. As president, Sinofsky will be responsible for the Windows business including both the engineering and marketing functions for Windows, Windows [...]
Alcatel-Lucent appoints new HP strategic alliance VP
Alcatel-Lucent has announced the appointment of Christel Heydemann, as Strategic Alliance Vice President for HP reporting to Tom Burns, President of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Product Group. She will be based in California. HP and Alcatel-Lucent recently signed a relationship agreement establishing both parties’ intent to form a 10-year global alliance to bring new end-to-end integrated telecom [...]
RCC acquires Stream Wireless
RCC Consultants, has announced that its parent company, RCC Holdings, acquired Stream Wireless of Rockville, Maryland. RCC believes the addition of Stream Wireless’ know-how in the areas of strategic planning, spectrum management, fixed, core and broadband network engineering, program management and microwave network design and implementation will extend RCC’s ability to deliver additional services to [...]
Max Fang joins Boston-Power as business advisor
Boston-Power, a provider of next-generation Lithium-ion batteries, has announced that electronics industry executive Max Fang will serve as business advisor to the company. In his new role, he will assist Boston-Power in business development, supply chain operations and government relations. Fang’s career accomplishments include an 11-year role with Dell. While at Dell, he started the [...]
Orc Software opens new office in Paris
Orc Software, a provider of technology for advanced derivatives trading and connectivity, has announced the opening of a new office in Paris to support the expansion of the Orc Group’s business in France. The new Paris office will be headed by Michel Balter who joined the company in September 2008. In his previous position, Balter [...]
Microsoft appoints Sproule as corporate VP, Corporate Communications
Microsoft has announced that Simon Sproule will join the company as corporate vice president of corporate communications. For the last five years, Sproule has served as the corporate vice president of Global Communications at Nissan Motor, where he was responsible for corporate communications, corporate social responsibility (CSR), product introductions, brand communications and internal communications. Sproule, [...]
Envision appoints Arun Thomas as Director of Development
Envision Telephony, a provider of workforce optimisation solutions for the contact centre and enterprise, has appointed Arun Thomas as director of development. Thomas will report directly to Rodney Kuhn, chief executive officer of Envision, and serve as a member of Envision’s senior management team. As director of development, Thomas will lead Envision’s software engineering team [...]
