Bob Cantarutti Joins Mintera as SVP, Sales and Marketing.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LOWELL, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2004 Mintera Corporation, the leader in 40G optical transport solutions, today announced that Bob Cantarutti has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing to lead the customer operations of the firm. "Now that Mintera has completed development of its first 40G platform, it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to build the team to bring this product successfully to market," said Dr. Terry Unter, 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. . "We are excited to have someone of Bob's capability and experience take charge of Mintera's sales and marketing strategy," he added. Bob brings more than 25 years of experience creating effective sales initiatives and building strategic relationships with leading technology customers. For the past few years Bob has provided senior executive leadership to a number of communications start up firms providing market/business assessment, development of valid strategies and business plans, and building focused teams to execute on implementation plans. Previously Bob was Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Field Operations at Cinta Networks, where he developed a marketing and sales strategy that quickly positioned Cinta as a leader in the next generation optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. systems market. As Vice President of Optical Networks and Access at Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony in the late 90's, he built a significant sales, marketing and engineering force, achieving sales of more than $3B by the year 2000. Prior to this assignment, Bob was Vice President, Global Accounts in Nortel's Enterprise Solutions organization with responsibility for providing strategic direction and delivering triple digit revenue growth rates Growth Rates The compounded annualized rate of growth of a company's revenues, earnings, dividends, or other figures. Notes: Remember, historically high growth rates don't always mean a high rate of growth looking into the future. . "Mintera has the ground-breaking technology and compelling solutions to meet the impending im·pend intr.v. im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends 1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending. 2. demands of a broad array of service providers, research institutions and others," said Bob Cantarutti. "It's an honor to be entrusted with the responsibility to introduce Mintera's products to the market and I'm thrilled thrill v. thrilled, thrill·ing, thrills v.tr. 1. To cause to feel a sudden intense sensation; excite greatly. 2. To give great pleasure to; delight. See Synonyms at enrapture. to be associated with such an innovative and visionary team." Bob's multi-faceted career has also included leadership roles in sales, marketing and engineering with companies such as Alcatel, DSC (1) (Digital Signal Controller) A microcontroller and DSP combined on the same chip. It adds the interrupt-driven capabilities normally associated with a microcontroller to a DSP, which typically functions as a continuous process. See microcontroller and DSP. , and Motorola. About Mintera Mintera is the technology leader enabling the migration to 40G optical transport in metro-core, regional, long-haul, and ultra-long-haul networks. Mintera's flexible multi-service 40G product-set, protected by multiple pending patents, enables service providers to seamlessly upgrade their existing infrastructure to 40G in an evolutionary fashion and enables research and development labs at the carriers, systems suppliers, component manufacturers, research institutes and universities to experiment with 40G transmission at an affordable cost. |
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