Premises Networks: People and Places, 6-1-99
A roundup of personnel changes, company relocations, and other items of interest in the premises networks industry.
Aladdin Knowledge Systems Inc. (New York) has appointed Kevin Gorman president of Aladdin's Seattle-based Internet Security Unit. Prior to joining Aladdin, Gorman was president of telemanagement company IntegraTRAK Inc. (Bellevue, WA)...
Vertical Networks (Sunnyvale, CA) has received $30 million through a fifth round of financing, bringing the total amount raised since the company was founded in June 1996 to more than $55 million. A provider of integrated communications platforms, Vertical Networks will use the funds as working capital to enhance and broaden its InstantOffice product line...
Silicon developer Galileo Technology (San Jose, CA) has appointed Ed Rodriguez to the newly created position of chief operating officer, reporting directly to Avigdor Willenz, chief executive and chairman of the board of directors. Most recently Rodriguez was the vice president/general manager of the Datacom Division of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, CA)...
nStor Corp. Inc. (Lake Mary, FL) has opened a new European office in Kent, UK. The manufacturer of RAID subsystems and information storage products has appointed Brian Arnott as manager of European Sales...
Network Solutions Inc. (Herndon, VA) has appointed James Rutt as CEO. Michael Daniels, Network Solutions' acting CEO and chairman will retain his role as chairman. Robert Korzeniewski continues as acting chief operating officer and chief financial officer...
Enterprise application software developer PeopleSoft Inc. (Pleasanton, CA) has named Craig Conway president and chief operating officer...
MUSE Technologies Inc. (Albuquerque, NM), a developer of network collaboration software, has appointed Allan Torres as director of Department of Energy and aerospace business development. Torres previously has held sales management positions with Cray Research (Eagan, MN) and Digital Equipment Corp.(Maynard, MA)...
Efficient Networks Inc. (Dallas), a supplier of digital subscriber line customer premises equipment, has opened a new sales and support facility in Singapore...
Interpath Communications Inc. (Research Triangle Park, NC) has appointed Charles Mead to vice president of sales. Mead will direct Interpath's sales strategy as the company continues its expansion in the Southeast United States. Most recently, he was vice president of Communications Industry Sales at Compaq Computer Corp. (Houston, TX)...
InfoSpinner Inc. (Dallas), a developer of enterprise-class application server technology, has named John Ferguson, CEO of the company. Ferguson formerly was president and chief operating officer. Before joining InfoSpinner, he was senior vice president of global alliances at OpenConnect Systems also of Dallas...
Andy Ludwick has joined the Board of Directors of Foundry Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA), a provider of Gigabit Ethernet switches and routers. Ludwick was the co-founder of SynOptics Communications, and after SynOptics' merger with Wellfleet, the CEO of Bay Networks (Santa Clara, CA).