ANDA Networks Hires Phillip P. Thomas as VP of Marketing; Expanding Internal Bandwidth for Strategic Business Growth.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2000 ANDA ANDA abbr. abbreviated new drug application Networks, which develops, markets and sells a comprehensive network access platform announced today the appointment of Phillip P. Thomas to the position of Vice President of Marketing. Thomas, a seasoned high-tech marketing veteran of twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. , will report directly to Charles R. Kenmore, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "The appointment of Phil Thomas to VP of Marketing strengthens the existing senior management team here at ANDA Networks," said Kenmore. "Phil is PHIL IS Philippine Islands a well-respected leader in the high-tech arena and we are excited to know that he will bring his visionary leadership skills to the company." Thomas' primary responsibilities will be to oversee all marketing functions and to provide leadership that will help guide ANDA's company strategy. "I am thrilled to join ANDA's exceptional management team," states Thomas. "As a young company ANDA Networks has achieved great success in the worldwide access network marketplace and I look forward to being a part of this growing organization." Thomas joins ANDA Networks from Hitachi Semiconductor America where he served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Alliances and Business Development. While at Hitachi, Thomas oversaw business development, product marketing, strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and engineering support among other functions. Thomas also developed product requirements and successfully forged strategic alliances on behalf of Hitachi with Cisco, Lucent and other networking companies and was accountable for growing Hitachi's semiconductor market share in the burgeoning network access product market. Prior to this, Thomas was Senior Director for the Access Business Unit at Cisco Systems where he performed marketing and engineering functions to help develop and launch Cisco's first high-end dial access server. Thomas has also held numerous high-level management positions within AT&T Affiliate companies including Chief Technical Officer at AT&T/NCR. About ANDA Networks ANDA Networks, Inc., founded in 1998, is headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , develops, markets and sells a comprehensive network access platform that enables communication service providers to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver integrated voice and data services over a single access network. The Universal Access Platform (UAP UAP Unstable Angina Pectoris UAP United Agri Products UAP User Account Protection (Microsoft Vista) UAP University Affiliated Program UAP Unlicensed Assistive Personnel UAP Universidad Adventista Del Plata ) is designed to work with existing circuit-switched voice services as well as with broadband packet-based data services. The UAP is comprised of a chassis, service and line cards and network management and service delivery software. ANDA's access platform gives service providers the flexibility to migrate customers from separate overlay access networks to a single, integrated access network, reducing a service provider's capital and operating costs, as well as simplifying service provisioning and systems management tasks. ANDA Networks, Inc. filed an S-1 with the SEC August 15, 2000. For more information, visit online at www.andanetworks.com. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.113000/bb6 |
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