Cereva Names Two to Executive Leadership Team; Charles Lenis Appointed Vice President of Sales, Customer Service and Business Development.Business/Technology Editors MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2001 Peter Fetterolf Named Vice President of Engineering Cereva Networks, developer of next-generation storage systems for large enterprises, service providers and carriers, today announced the appointment of Charles Lenis le·nis adj. Articulated with relatively low pressure of the airstream below the glottis, as English (b) and (d) compared with (p) and (t). [Latin l to the position of vice president, Worldwide Sales, Customer Service and Business Development, and announced the appointment of Peter Fetterolf as vice president of Engineering. Mr. Lenis is responsible for all of the company's sales development activities, pre- and post-sales services and support, and for business alliances and partnerships. He reports directly to Mahesh Ganmukhi, 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. of Cereva. An industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in high technology environments, Mr. Lenis joins Cereva from Cisco Systems, via Cisco's acquisition of PixStream of Waterloo, Ontario. As vice president of worldwide sales for Cisco/PixStream, he built a global sales organization and increased revenues by over 400 per cent. Prior to PixStream, Mr. Lenis was vice president of worldwide sales and business development at PakNetX, Inc., Salem, NH, where his successful OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and strategy led to the company being acquired by Aspect Corporation. Prior to PakNetX, Mr. Lenis served as director of distribution at MultiLink Corporation, Andover, MA, building a nationwide distribution channel. MultiLink was subsequently acquired by PictureTel Corporation. Mr. Lenis has also held senior sales, marketing and management positions with IBM, Siemens and Boston Technology. He holds a B.S. from the University of Massachusetts The system includes UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth (affiliated with Cape Cod Community College), UMass Lowell, and the UMass Medical School. It also has an online school called UMassOnline. and an M.B.A. from Suffolk University. Cereva also announced today the appointment of Dr. Peter Fetterolf as vice president of Engineering. Reporting to Mahesh Ganmukhi, Dr. Fetterolf is responsible for all hardware and software architecture and development for the Cereva storage system. Prior to joining Cereva, Dr. Fetterolf was a co-founder of, and vice president of software for, Ignitus Communications, Acton, MA, an optical networking start-up acquired by Lucent Technologies in 2000. Before Ignitus, Dr. Fetterolf served as director of IP Software at Cascade and Ascend, Westford, MA. Dr. Fetterolf's work at Cascade/Ascend followed a career as a management consultant at Arthur D. Little Arthur D. Little, Inc. is the world's first management consulting firm. Founded in 1886 by Arthur Dehon Little, an MIT chemist who discovered acetate, and co-worker Roger Griffin, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Arthur D. Little pioneered the concept of contracted technology research. , Cambridge, MA, where he specialized in information technology and telecommunications. He has also served as a member of the Computer and Electrical Engineering faculty at Boston University. Dr. Fetterolf holds a Ph.D. in systems engineering and an M.S.E.E in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. . "These appointments add significant depth and strength to the Cereva management team," said Mahesh Ganmukhi. "Not only do Charlie and Peter bring a wealth of industry knowledge and skills to the company but, equally important, they're also extremely experienced in helping lead start-up companies to success." About Cereva Networks Cereva Networks Inc., founded in 1998 and headquartered in Marlborough, MA, is delivering the industry's first storage system to enable large enterprises, service providers and carriers to greatly accelerate content delivery while simplifying data center infrastructures. Cereva's investors include Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Goldman Sachs (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : GS), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : INTC INTC Intel (NASDAQ symbol) INTC Intercept INTC Interrupt Controller ), Global Crossing Ventures, Inc., Worldview Technology Partners, Comdisco Ventures (NYSE: CDO (Collaborative Data Objects) A programming interface from Microsoft for accessing MAPI-based e-mail, calendaring and scheduling servers. Originally called "OLE Messaging" and "Active Messaging," CDO wraps the Enhanced MAPI library into a COM object that provides the ), and Sumitomo Corporation. The company's senior-management team includes former executives of such companies as AT&T Bell Labs, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU), and Nortel (NYSE: NT). For more information, visit Cereva's Web site at www.cereva.com. Cereva, Cereva Networks, the `VA' logo and The Internet Storage People are trademarks of Cereva Networks Inc. All other trademarks referenced in this release are the property of their respective owners. |
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