Premises Networks: People and Places, 3-20-00
NECX.com LLC (Peabody, MA), a wholly owned subsidiary of VerticalNet Inc. (Horsham, PA) appointed five new vice presidents and a director to its management team. The newly-appointed executives include Elan Bair, vice president of corporate development; Cindie Calvino, vice president of organizational resources; Wayne Poe, vice president of global logistics; Bruce Haskin, vice president of finance; Robert Kramich, vice president of marketing; and David Buchanan, director of information technology. NECX (www.necx.com) operates the Global Electronics Exchange, a Internet-based business-to-business open market exchange for electronics hardware...
Daniel Cook has been appointed chief technical officer of Worldwide Wireless Networks (Orange, CA). He will have overall responsibility for the technical affairs of the company and will report to the chief executive officer Jack Tortorice and board of directors. In 1997, Cook founded Enable-IT Resources Inc. , an IT-consulting firm...
Vancouver, WA-based New Edge Networks, a national wholesale digital subscriber line service provider in small, midsize and semi-rural markets, appointed Brian McDonald as vice president of marketing. Before joining New Edge Networks, McDonald was vice president of corporate and relationship marketing for Micron Electronics Inc. (Nampa, ID), a direct manufacturer of personal computers...
Lakota Technologies Inc. (Houston) appointed Glenn Ewing as its vice president of worldwide sales. He is formerly a territory manager for 3Com Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) where Ewing developed LAN services for businesses...
Computer Network Technology (Minneapolis), appointed Barbara Schmit as the company's first chief information officer, effective immediately. As CIO, Schmit is responsible for the company's global network infrastructure, global telecommunications systems, desktop services for its 700 employees, and the application services group. She reports to Greg Barnum, chief financial officer. Schmit previously worked for National Computer Systems (Iowa City, IA) for 13 years as manager of business systems...
Richard Yonker has been appointed vice president and chief financial officer of MMC Networks (Sunnyvale, CA), a developer of multi-gigabit, open-architecture, software-programmable network processors. Yonker's career has included executive financial management roles with <%=company%> (Santa Clara, CA) and Digital Equipment Corp. (now part of Houston-based Compaq Computer Corp.)...
Vertical Networks (Sunnyvale, CA), a provider of integrated communications platforms for branch offices and small businesses, announced that Rick Gilbert, president and CEO of Copper Mountain Networks Inc. (San Diego) has joined the company's board of directors.