Ascom Enterprise Networks restructures to form two divisions.ACTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1994--In a move designed to broaden market reach and business opportunities, Ascom Enterprise Networks division of Ascom Holding AG, has been restructured into two operating divisions. Fred Sutter, president of the Ascom Management Committee, has been appointed chief executive officer of Ascom Enterprise Networks. As part of this restructure, Randy N. Phillips has been appointed president and chief operating office of a restructured Ascom Timeplex division of Ascom Enterprise Networks. Additionally R. Bruce McClure, formerly an Ascom Timeplex Inc. senior vice president and general manager, has been appointed president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of a newly structured division of Ascom Enterprise Networks. Both Bruce McClure and Randy Phillips will report directly to Fred Sutter. "This operating structure will strengthen the position of Ascom Enterprise Networks as a leading international networking company," said Sutter. "The two new divisions will ensure that we can both strengthen our current product lines and aggressively address new market opportunities. Ascom Enterprise Networks is now even better positioned to satisfy our customer's evolving networking needs." McClure was hired by Ascom Holding AG two years ago to identify and capture new business opportunities for Ascom Enterprise Networks. In that time, he has built a new business operation headquartered in Acton, executing the innovative and evolutionary strategy he defined shortly after joining the company. In June of this year McClure hired Randy Phillips, vice president and general manager, to head-up the company's Internetworking Product Group. Phillips brings to the company in-depth industry and senior management experience. Before joining Ascom Timeplex, he was senior vice president of operations at Sync Research, a manufacturer of SNA (Systems Network Architecture) IBM's mainframe network standards introduced in 1974. Originally a centralized architecture with a host computer controlling many terminals, enhancements, such as APPN and APPC (LU 6. and X.25 networking products, where he was responsible for design, development, quality assurance services Assurance services have been defined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) as 'Independent Professional Services that improve information quality or its context'. , manufacturing and product management. Prior to that, Phillips served as vice president and general manager of the Internetwork Division of Retix, a leading LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. supplier. Responsible for that division's engineering, marketing, quality assurance and service activities, he contributed to Retix's leadership in Ethernet bridge See Wi-Fi bridge and powerline Ethernet bridge. systems in 1991-92. Before that, he helped turn around Racal Interlan when, as 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. , he reorganized the company, established new manufacturing operations Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizations. , and helped Racal Interlan maintain profitability while growing annual revenues from $49 million to $70 million in two years. Previously, Phillips held engineering program management and senior management positions for Inmac, Silcom, Rolm Corp., and GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) Systems. "We are pleased to have someone of Randy's background in Ascom Enterprise Networks," said Sutter. "He brings with him qualified senior management experience of networking business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . The corporate-wide internetworking and multiplexer business of the Ascom Timeplex division will be strengthened under his leadership." Before joining the company in October 1992, McClure was president and founder of Alliance Consulting, a strategic network consulting organization focused on developing new networking business opportunities. While at Alliance Consulting McClure was one of the early members of the ATM Forum A membership organization founded in 1991 to promote ATM networking technology. It worked with ANSI and the ITU to set standards. Its first specification in 1992 defined the User-Network Interface (UNI). In 2004, the Forum merged with the MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance. . In September of 1988 he founded Synernetics Inc., a premier supplier of high-performance switching-hub products, and served as chairman of the board and CEO. At Synernetics Inc., he created the industry's first segment switching hub A device that acts as a central switch or PBX, connecting one line to another. In a local area network (LAN), a switching hub gives any two stations on the network the full bandwidth of the line. and led the company to become the number one supplier of high performance Ethernet segment switches. The company's success eventually resulted in a sale of Synernetics Inc. to 3Com Corp., returning over $100 million to the Synernetics Inc. shareholders. Before that, McClure established and directed the research and development group that delivered networking for Apollo Computer (company) Apollo Computer - A company making workstations often used for CAD. From 1980 to 1987, Apollo were the largest manufacturer of network workstations. Apollo workstations ran Aegis, a proprietary operating system with a Posix-compliant Unix alternative frontend. , the company that created the networked engineering workstation. He was also responsible for developing wide-area and other types of networking products at Infinet, Teledynamics and Aydin Monitor Systems. "We are pleased to have someone of Bruce's proven entrepreneurial background," said Sutter. "He has already hired a world-class team of over one-hundred people. This team is the basis of the new division headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts Acton is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States about twenty-one miles west-northwest of Boston along Route 2 west of Concord and about eleven miles (18 km) southwest of Lowell. The population was 20,331 at the 2000 census. . His experience in defining successful evolutionary networking business strategies and creating new business operations both complements the business of the Timeplex division and allows the new division of Ascom Enterprise Networks to aggressively develop new market opportunities." The Ascom group employs some 13,000 persons worldwide and reported sales of Sfr. 3,100 million last year. Besides a strong base in Switzerland, the group has subsidiaries primarily in Europe and the United States and sells its products and services in some 100 countries. Ascom is seeking to secure a leading market position in selected, high-growth segments within telecommunications and service automation. The Ascom shares are quoted on the Swiss stock exchange. CONTACT: Ascom Timeplex John A. Stewart, 508/266-3463 |
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