Acterna Appoints Richard Goshorn as General Counsel; Former Cable & Wireless Executive Brings Depth of Global Communications Industry Expertise.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers GERMANTOWN, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2002 Acterna Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTR ACTR American Council of Teachers of Russian ACTR Actuator ACTR Association for Canadian Theatre Research ACTR A Christmas To Remember ACTR Assistant Contract Technical Representative (NMCI liaison) ) today announced the appointment of Richard H. Goshorn as corporate vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Goshorn joins Acterna from Cable & Wireless where he served most recently as senior vice president and general counsel of Cable & Wireless Global. He reports to Ned Lautenbach, Acterna's chairman 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. , and John Peeler, president of Acterna and chief executive of the company's communications test and management company. Goshorn will direct legal strategy for Acterna's four subsidiaries: Acterna, the test and management business which generates approximately 80 percent of the corporation's revenue; AIRSHOW; da Vinci da Vinci Surgery A surgical robot for performing certain surgeries–eg, mitral valve repair and laparoscopic procedures–eg, cholecystectomy and gastric ulcer repair. See Laparoscopic surgery, Robotics, Surgical robot. Systems; and Itronix. He replaces Mark Tremallo, who has decided to pursue other interests in the Boston area following the re-location of Acterna's corporate headquarters from Burlington, MA to Germantown, MD. "Rick brings a depth of legal and communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. business expertise in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and the Asia-Pacific region," said Peeler. "He is ideally suited to lead Acterna's legal strategy and its role in helping Acterna achieve its sales and marketing, finance and business development objectives around the world." During a 10-year career with Cable & Wireless, Goshorn held a variety of senior management positions in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe and Asia. In his most recent position, Goshorn led a legal staff of 65 -- operating from London, Paris, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. - for Cable & Wireless Global, an enterprise with over $4 billion in annual revenues and 12,000 employees focused on delivering data and Internet services to business customers around the world. In previous executive positions with Cable & Wireless, Goshorn managed negotiations for various business development initiatives in Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. , created and rolled out a franchise program that expanded its portfolio of services for multi-national customers, built a fiscal platform to improve the tax structure for business units around the globe, and developed the legal strategy that resulted in the recovery of $248 million related to the company's acquisition of an Internet backbone (communications, networking) Internet backbone - High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic. These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. business. Prior to joining Cable & Wireless, Goshorn was an attorney for two law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
About Acterna Corporation Based in Germantown, Maryland, Acterna Corporation is the holding company for Acterna, AIRSHOW, da Vinci Systems and Itronix. Acterna is the world's second largest communications test and management company. The company offers instruments, systems, software and services used by service providers, equipment manufacturers and enterprise users to test and optimize performance of their optical transport, access, cable, data/IP and wireless networks and services. AIRSHOW supplies in-flight passenger information systems to the aviation industry while da Vinci Systems designs and markets video color correction systems to the video postproduction industry. Itronix sells ruggedized computing devices for field service applications to a range of industries. Additional information on Acterna is available at http://www.acterna.com. |
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