ComStar Communications Solidifies Executive Team.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 2, 1999-- Atlanta-based ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. appoints Cynthia St. Ores as Chief Operating Officer and Steven J. Edwards as Vice President of Sales and Marketing ComStar Communications Corporation, an Atlanta-based business class Internet solutions provider, announced today the appointment of Cynthia St. Ores as 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. and Steven J. Edwards as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. St. Ores joins ComStar after working as a business consultant at Arthur Andersen For the U.S. Supreme Court case commonly known as Arthur Andersen, see . Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (the other four are PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG), performing for the past 5 years. Mr. Edwards comes to ComStar from 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 , formerly Bay Networks, where he was most recently Director of Global Business Programs for Europe, the Middle East and Africa Europe, the Middle East and Africa, usually abbreviated to EMEA, is a regional designation used for government, marketing and business purposes. It is particularly common amongst North American based companies, who often divide their international operations into the . At Nortel, Edwards worked closely with enterprise-level customers looking to implement bullet-proof networks for business critical applications and e-commerce capabilities. Edwards started his career at IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and spent 20 years there in numerous sales and marketing positions, ultimately advancing to the role of Director of Sales for the Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. Industries. After IBM, Edwards served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for two California-based start-up companies. As an Andersen consultant, St. Ores advised clients on best business practices for organizational, strategic and operational planning, and directed firm-wide strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. for knowledge management and learning implementation. She previously worked as the technology manager and senior instructional designer for the company. Before Andersen, St. Ores served in strategic planning roles and implemented information systems at several smaller companies. St. Ores graduated from the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
Commenting on the appointment of Mr. Edwards and Ms. St. Ores, Cary Howell, 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 ComStar Communications, Inc., said, "ComStar is extremely pleased to add Cynthia St. Ores and Steve Edwards Steve Edwards is the name of:
Edwards looks forward to using his extensive national and international sales and marketing experience to help Comstar build an U.S. and international footprint. "ComStar has tremendous growth opportunities. Our customers have become even more dependent upon the Internet for daily business operations and now rely on e-commerce strategies that are essential to their continued business success. Today, such customers demand rock-solid business-class Internet solutions which ComStar provides," said Edwards. "I am pleased to be working for this young and innovative company with such a profound passion for customer satisfaction, and look forward to supporting local, national and international companies that need Internet strategies and solutions for their business critical applications." "ComStar has the groundwork in place to provide quality customer service to their client base and I look forward to enhancing the company's capabilities and operational capacities," said St. Ores. " I am excited to work with this talented group of individuals to build ComStar into a leading business class Internet Solutions provider." About ComStar ComStar Communications is a fast growing business-class Internet solutions provider, based in Atlanta with locations throughout the southeast. The company was founded by ex-MindSpring employees Cary Howell and Ed Landa. ComStar specializes in serving businesses that need 100% available Internet communications or have mission-critical Internet commerce applications. ComStar simplifies communications administration and offers plans that can grow as the business grows. ComStar's solutions are delivered over a powerful state of the art redundant network and fully fault-tolerant network operations. The network operations center See NOC. Network Operations Center - (NOC) A location from which the operation of a network or internet is monitored. Additionally, this center usually serves as a clearinghouse for connectivity problems and efforts to resolve those problems. is supported 24x7 by a highly knowledgeable and responsive staff. For more information call 1-800-4-ComStar, or visit the company's website at www.comstar.net. |
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