Ruckus Wireless Hires David Stephenson — Chair of Hotspot 2.0 Task Group
Ruckus Wireless appointed David Stephenson as Senior Principal Engineer within its System Architecture group. Stephenson is the current chair of ...
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Ben Verwaayen Resigns as CEO of Alcatel-Lucent
Ben Verwaayen will step down as CEO of Alcatel-Lucent and has decided not to seek re-election as a director of ...
TeliaSonera’s CEO Resigns Following Uzbekistan Report
Lars Nyberg resigned as President and CEO of TeliaSonera following an outside review of Mannheimer Swartling regarding illegal business practices ...
Narus Names John Trobough as President
Narus, a provider of big data analytics for cyber security, named John Trobough as its new president. Trobough previously was ...
7signal Names Jeff Reedy as CEO
7signal Solutions, which supplies Wireless Performance Optimization for Wireless LAN applications, named Jeff Reedy as President and CEO. Reedy was ...
Lloyd Carney Takes Over as CEO of Brocade
Brocade appointed Lloyd Carney as chief executive officer effective immediately, replacing Michael Klayko, who had announced his intention to step ...
JDSU Hires Susan Spradley as GM of Communications Test and Measurement
JDSU named Susan Spradley as senior vice president of its communications test and measurement business unit. Reporting to David Heard, ...
Shehzad Merchant Appointed CTO of Extreme Networks
Extreme Networks promoted Shehzad T. Merchant to the position of Chief Technical Officer (CTO). Merchant holds 10 technology patents for ...
F5 Networks Adds Two Key Industry Players to its Board
F5 Networks has appointed Steve Smith and Sandra Bergeron to its board of directors. Smith is Chief Executive Officer, President, ...
René Obermann to Step Down as CEO of DT in One Year
René Obermann will step down as CEO of Deutsche Telekom at the end of 2013 and has asked the company's ...
Shenick Names New CEO and Opens in Silicon Valley
Shenick Network Systems named Gerard Moore as its new Chairman and CEO. Previously, Moore was founder and CEO of Spectel, ...
Akamai’s Chief Scientist to Take CEO Helm
Dr. Tom Leighton, Akamai's co-founder and Chief Scientist, will succeed Paul Sagan as the company's CEO. Sagan announced earlier this ...
Tellabs Adds Dennis Strigl and Mikel Williams to Board
Tellabs added two new directors to its Board: Dennis F. (Denny) Strigl - a former president and chief operating officer ...
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