GENBAND Strengthens Senior Management Team
February 6, 2008, Plano, TX - GENBAND Inc., a market-leading developer of next-generation gateways and application delivery platforms, today announced senior management enhancements to augment the existing team. These changes include the appointment of Fred Kemmerer as executive vice president and chief technology officer, Jonathan Hustis as executive vice president and general counsel, and Mehmet Balos as executive vice president and chief marketing officer. John McNamara becomes executive vice president, channels. All senior staff members report directly to Charles Vogt, president and chief executive officer.
GENBAND’s Executive Management Team
Charles Vogt, president and chief executive officer, is an industry luminary with two decades of executive tenure. Vogt has been instrumental in the operational and financial growth of five standard setting start-ups that have either become public companies or have been acquired. Since joining GENBAND, Vogt’s vision and leadership has led GENBAND to become one of the world’s leading innovators of VoIP infrastructure technology. Since 2004, GENBAND has increased top line revenue by 1800%, executed three acquisitions, partnered with leading OEMs, secured 30 of the top 75 global network service providers, expanded its footprint to over 28 global countries and in 2007 was recognized by both Inc. 500 and Deloitte Touche USA as one of nations fastest growing private companies.
Jan Gaulding is executive vice president and chief financial officer. Gaulding has over 10 years experience as a public company CFO and an extensive track record in building successful financial organizations in both public and private company settings for the past 20 plus years. In addition to Gaulding’s experience in SEC compliance, she has significant experience in mergers and acquisitions having completed almost 30 transactions over her career.
Jonathan Hustis joined GENBAND in October 2007 as executive vice president and general counsel. Hustis is an experienced technology executive and legal counsel. He comes to GENBAND from Oracle Corporation, having serving 10 years as general counsel at MetaSolv, Inc., acquired by Oracle in 2006. Previous experience was with Texas Instruments, FoxMeyer Corporation, and in private civil law practice.
Fred Kemmerer joins as executive vice president and chief technology officer and will lead GENBAND’s technology office and drive the strategic vision of the company’s industry-leading product portfolio. Kemmerer held a broad range of positions at Lucent Technologies and later Alcatel-Lucent before joining GENBAND.
Keith Landau is executive vice president. Landau, a 27 year accomplished telecommunications veteran, leads GENBAND’s world-class research and development team. Prior to GENBAND, Landau was responsible for research and development with the Tekelec Switching Solutions Group. Prior to Tekelec, Landau held numerous business and R&D leadership positions in his 21 years at Nortel Networks.
Pablo Gargiulo is executive vice president. Gargiulo, a 25-year accomplished business veteran, leads operations at GENBAND. Before joining GENBAND, Gargiulo held the positions of Vice President of Customer Services for switching worldwide, vice president of customer operations for Tekelec's entire portfolio and most recently, vice president of business operations for the Communications Software Solutions Group.
Jim Odom is executive vice president, quality. Odom joined GENBAND in November of 1999 and has led the professional services strategy, focus, and implementation for the company. Odom came to GENBAND following a 20-year career with Motorola, where he held several leadership positions in the area of telecommunications IC development.
Daniel Lakey is executive vice president, Americas sales. Prior to GENBAND, Lakey held senior level sales, marketing, and product management positions at Tekelec. In these positions, he provided strategic sales, product, and market guidance for VoIP networks, applications, and services.
Ron Halpern is executive vice president, international sales. Halpern is an accomplished veteran of the telecommunications and software industry, with 19 years of experience spanning executive sales, marketing and operations roles. Prior to GENBAND, Halpern held senior management roles at Amdocs as Vice President and Client Business Executive.
John McNamara has been promoted to executive vice president, channels. McNamara, an industry veteran with over 20 years in the telecommunications industry, joined GENBAND in 2007 to build on GENBAND’s channel partner program. Prior to GENBAND, McNamara held executive sales positions with Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems, and Siemens Corporation.
Mehmet Balos joins GENBAND as executive vice president and chief marketing officer. Prior to coming to GENBAND, he has held a variety of executive positions with leading companies, including Actelis, 3COM, Ericsson, AFC (acquired by Tellabs), Pirelli (acquired by Cisco), ADC, and Fujitsu.
“GENBAND’s dynamic growth and continued market leadership has enabled us to attract experienced employees and executives," said Charles Vogt, president and chief executive officer of GENBAND. "This team has the experience, depth and passion to continue scaling the company to new heights."
About GENBAND
GENBAND is a leading supplier of next-generation media gateway and application solutions. These high-performance gateway and application platforms enable fixed and mobile network service providers to rapidly deploy new multimedia services. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, GENBAND has research and development facilities in Texas, China, and India. Additional information is available at www.genband.com.
Contacts:
Noah Sessions
GENBAND Inc.
+1.972.265.3664
noah.sessions@genband.com
Lora Friedrichsen
Ketchum for GENBAND
+1.214.259.3444 (office)
lora.friedrichsen@ketchum.com
