Comdial appoints William E. Porter Executive Vice President.CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 1997--Today, Comdial Corporation (Nasdaq NM:CMDL CMDL Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory CMDL Common Mission Data Loader ) announced the appointment of William E. (Bill) Porter to the newly created position of Executive Vice President, effective May 14, 1997. He will focus on long term business development and 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. . William G. Mustain, President and Chief Executive Officer, said "We are excited to have Bill on our management team. Bill joined our board in 1994, and has made many valuable contributions and earned the respect of everyone at Comdial who had the opportunity to work with him." Mustain continued, "Bill's role will be to work closely with me and the other senior managers of Comdial to chart the course for Comdial's future growth and assure successful implementation. Over these past three years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time telecommunications landscape has changed dramatically, presenting new opportunities and new challenges. We need someone with Bill Porter's vision and grasp of emerging technologies to challenge current strategies, assess marketing alternatives, and accelerate current growth trends." Porter, 51, has over 25 years of management and engineering experience with commercial and military data and telecommunications systems. He was recently Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning and Interactive Electronic Commerce, for Trigon Corporation, a leading health care insurer. Prior to Trigon, Mr. Porter held executive positions with several leading technology companies, including Computer Sciences Corporation and General Electric Aerospace. Between 1990 and 1992, he served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder Lawrence Douglas Wilder (born January 17, 1931) is an American politician. He was the first African American to be elected as governor of a U.S. state, and the second of three to serve as governor.[1] Wilder served as Governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. . He has a Master of Computer Sciences degree from Purdue University Purdue University (pərdy  `, -d`), main campus at West Lafayette, Ind. and a law degree from George Washington University George Washington University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; chartered 1821 as Columbian College (one of the first nonsectarian colleges), opened 1822, became a university in 1873, renamed 1904. . As an Assistant Professor, he taught Computer Sciences at Morehouse and Spelman Colleges. Concurrent with his acceptance of this new position at Comdial, Porter resigned his status as a member of Comdial's Board of Directors. Comdial policy limits the number of inside directors. Mr. Mustain remains the only Comdial employee serving on its Board. Porter will relocate to Charlottesville from Richmond, Virginia Richmond IPA: [ɹɯʒmɐnɖ] is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. . He is married and has two adult children. Comdial Corporation is a leading designer, manufacturer, and supplier of a broad range of advanced telecommunications and system solutions based on computer telephony integration Computer Telephony Integration - Computer Telephone Integration . CONTACT: Comdial Corp. Dick Bucci, 804/978-2525 dbucci@comdial.com |
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