Clarent Names Tuck Newport Vice President of Strategic Initiatives; Company Continues to Add Depth and Experience to Executive Management Team.Business Editors 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)--June 27, 2001 Clarent(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:CLRN CLRN California Learning Resource Network CLRN Community Legal Resources Network CLRN Chemical Laboratory Response Network ), a leading provider of softswitch and Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (IP) communications solutions, today announced the appointment of Tuck Newport as vice president of Strategic Initiatives. Newport's role will be to advise Clarent's Office of the President on the company's strategic initiatives, cost alignment, and operational planning. "Tuck will play a pivotal role in our management team. He brings great experience in managing the rapid growth of successful organizations and will help Clarent continue to grow and achieve consistent profitability," said Barry Forman, president and executive chairman, Clarent Corporation. "We are pleased to have him on board." Newport joins Clarent with over two decades of leadership experience in all facets of developing and marketing software and network products for start-up enterprises and large corporations. Newport served as a vice president at VeriFone, a leading supplier of point-of-sale terminals for electronic payment transactions. During his six years there, his responsibilities included marketing, sales, service, software development, and finance. He has founded and managed wireless data, enterprise software, and magazine publishing firms. Newport also designed and implemented production and business information systems for a division of the Hearst Corporation The Hearst Corporation is a privately-held American-based media conglomerate based in the Hearst Tower in New York City, USA. Founded by William Randolph Hearst as an owner of newspapers, the company's holdings now include a wide variety of media. . About Clarent Clarent Corporation (Nasdaq:CLRN) is a world leader in providing intelligent softswitch and software-driven products for new generation, IP-based communications networks. Clarent solutions enable interconnection among communications service providers' disparate networks and foster the creation of global footprints for more than 350 telecom service providers worldwide, including AT&T, NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform and China Telecom. Clarent's software platform encourages innovation by allowing carriers to develop multiple new features for consumers and enterprises. Founded in 1996, Clarent is headquartered in Redwood City and has offices in Asia, Europe, Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and 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. . To learn more about Clarent, visit its Web site at www.clarent.com. Forward Looking Statements This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including statements relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc Clarent's future growth and strategic goals. These statements involve risks and uncertainties, including potential issues relating to changes in market conditions, interoperability, inability to introduce new products, ability to retain customers, government regulations, the international 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. , technological changes and other factors, which could cause actual results to vary materially from those expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties are described further in the risk factors discussed in Clarent's periodic filings with the SEC. Trademarks Clarent, the Clarent logo, Clarent OpenAccess, NetPerformer, DynaStar, Clarent Command Center, Clarent ThroughPacket, Clarent CPG CPG central pattern generators. , Clarent OpenAccess, PowerCell, SkyPerformer, ACTview and ServiceXchange are trademarks or registered trademarks, and "The Clearer. The Better" is a service mark of Clarent Corporation in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other trademarks, registered trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners. |
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