Premises Networks: People and Places, 5-30-00
Veritect (Falls Church, VA), a provider of 24-hour, 7-day-a-week network security management and end-to-end network security services, appointed William Franklin to vice president of sales and marketing. Franklin is the former vice president of services for Axent Technologies Inc., a Rockville, MD provider of information security and e-security...
<%=company%>(Santa Clara, CA), the world's largest chip maker, appointed Pamela Pollace as director of worldwide marketing operations. She succeeds Jami Dover, a 20-year Intel veteran. Pollace joined Intel in 1987 as a corporate press relations manager and became director of worldwide press relations in 1995. Prior to joining Intel, Pollace held advertising, marketing communications and public relations management positions at Deutsch, Shea & Evans (a division of Foote, Cone & Belding of San Francisco)...
John Coyne has been promoted to senior vice president of worldwide operations for the hard drive business of Western Digital Corp. (Irvine, CA), reporting to Arif Shakeel, Western Digital executive vice president and general manager. Coyne is an 11-year veteran of Western Digital. Most recently, he has been responsible for all Asian operations for the company…
Louie Llamas joins Fibre Channel storage-area network vendor TrueSAN Networks Inc. (San Jose, CA) as vice president of sales. From 1998 through 2000, Llamas served as the vice president of sales for Terastor Corp. (San Jose, CA), a developer of near-field recording (NFR) disk technology...
Crossroads Systems Inc. (Austin, TX), a developer and manufacturer of Fibre Channel storage routers, appointed Morton Topfer to its board of directors. Topfer, former vice chairman of Dell Computer Corp. (Austin, TX), serves as counselor to Michael Dell and is a member of that company's board of directors...
Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (San Jose, CA), a supplier of Fibre Channel fabric solutions for storage area networking, has appointed three executives to senior marketing posts. Brocade named Jack Cuthbert, formerly vice president of North American Sales at Brocade, as vice president, worldwide marketing and John (Jay) Kidd, formerly of computer maker SGI (Mountain View, CA), as vice president, product marketing. Peter Tarrant, formerly Brocade vice president of marketing and business development, joins Cuthbert and Kidd in his new role as vice president, strategic marketing. All three posts are newly-created positions...
Seagate Technology Inc. (Scotts Valley, CA) continued its cost-cutting program last week with plans to shut down plants in Anaheim, CA, and Mexicali, Mexico, and to lay off about 1,200 workers. The disk-drive maker said it will take a $35 million charge for the plant closures in the current quarter. Since 1998, Seagate has reduced its work force from 106,000 to about 61,360.
Edited by John Spofford, Managing Editor