Ceon Corporation Appoints Two Industry Veterans to Board of Directors; Howard Charney of Cisco and A. Brooke Seawell Add Expertise in Networking, Enterprise Software and Finance.REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 1999-- Ceon Corporation(TM), formerly FirstTel Systems, a pioneer in providing solutions that allow carriers to rapidly provision, bundle and manage multimedia services, today announced that industry veterans Howard Charney of Cisco and A. Brooke Seawell have joined the Ceon Board of Directors. "Howard and Brooke are incredibly valuable assets to our Board," said Tim Fritzley, 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. of Ceon. "They bring vast experience in starting and managing very successful companies. The pace of convergent service rollout will require high growth at Ceon. Howard and Brooke will provide the necessary guidance and insights to help steer the company. While each brings unique industry expertise to the table, they both possess a clear grasp of the incredible opportunities presented by the converging telecom and cable marketplace and are committed to our vision of making Ceon the market leader in convergent service delivery." Charney Brings Networking Experience Charney is Senior Vice President of Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Inc. and a member of Cisco's Office of the President and Executive Staff. Previously, he held the position of senior vice president of the small-medium business division of Cisco. A prominent networking executive, Charney was the founder, president and CEO of Grand Junction Grand Junction, city (1990 pop. 29,034), seat of Mesa co., W Colo., at the junction of the Gunnison and Colorado rivers; inc. 1891. The shipping and processing center of a large ranch and irrigated farm region, it also serves the area's uranium, oil shale, gas, and Networks, the company that invented Fast Ethernet. It was acquired by Cisco in 1995. Charney was also a founding member of 3Com. He holds BS and MS degrees from MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration and JD degrees from Santa Clara University. Seawell Brings Background in Operations and Finance Seawell, now retired, served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of NetDynamics, Inc., an Internet application server software company. He also served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Synopsys, Inc., an electronic design automation software company. He built the company from $30 million in revenue to more than $400 million and brought it public. Seawell holds a BA and an MBA from Stanford University. He serves on the boards of Accrue Software, Inc., Informatica Corporation, Mediaplex, Inc., NVIDIA Corporation, as well as the boards of several privately held companies privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. . The appointments of Charney and Seawell expand the Ceon Board of Directors to nine members. Other Ceon Board Directors include: James V. Rhode, Founder and Vice Chairman, Ceon; Tench Coxe, General Partner, Sutter Hill Ventures; Robert Horne, Vice President, Business Development, Nortel Networks; Robert L. Barada, Vice President, Pacific Telesis (ret.); Richard Kimball, Founding Partner, Technology Crossover Ventures; and George H. Sollman, President and CEO, Arabesque arabesque (ărəbĕsk`) [Fr.,=Arabian], in art, term applied to any complex, linear decoration based on flowing lines. In Islamic art it was often exploited to cover entire surfaces. Communications, Inc. About Ceon Corporation Founded in 1982, Ceon has been a key player in the service fulfillment market, with more than 17 years of experience building mission-critical Operations Support Systems Operations Support Systems (also called Operational Support Systems or OSS) are computer systems used by telecommunications service providers. The term OSS most frequently describes "network systems" dealing with the telecom network itself, supporting processes such (OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. ) for leading global telecom service providers including British Telecom and Cable and Wireless. Ceon delivers real e-business solutions that empower service providers to bundle, provision and manage multimedia services. Ceon solutions integrate service providers' disparate OSS elements, resulting in rapid implementations, reduced service delivery times and improved customer retention. A privately held company headquartered in Redwood City, Ceon Corporation also has offices in Europe and Asia. For more information, visit the Ceon Web site at http://www.ceoncorp.com. |
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