Comstellar Announces Distinguished Advisory Board.Business Editors, High Tech Writers LOS ALTOS Los Altos (lôs ăl`tōs, lŏs), residential city (1990 pop. 26,303), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1952. There is diversified light manufacturing. , Calif. and FLORHAM PARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2000 Four well-known executives extend corporate vision on the future of communications Comstellar Technologies, Inc. today announced the formation of an Advisory Board consisting of four pioneering leaders from different facets of the 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. . The Advisory Board members are Dr. George H. Heilmeier Dr. George Harry Heilmeier (May 22, 1936 - ) is a notable American engineer and businessman, perhaps best known for his pioneering contributions to liquid crystal displays. , Chairman Emeritus of Bellcore; Edward A. Mueller, 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 Ameritech, a company of SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Communications Inc.; Senator Larry Pressler Larry Lee Pressler (b. March 29, 1942) is a U.S. Republican politician. He holds the distinction of being the first Vietnam veteran to be elected to the United States Senate. , now a Senior Partner with the law firm of O'Connor & Hannan; and Dr. Sachio Semmoto, Founder and CEO of eAccess Ltd., Tokyo. "Comstellar's ability to attract this level of talent and experience to help us execute on our business plan is one more indication of how quickly we're mobilizing the executive resources needed to implement our strategies and influence the next generation of communications technologies in a very real and substantial way, " said Sanjiv Ahuja Sanjiv Ahuja is a member of France Telecom's Group Management Committee, and Chairman of Orange SA. Sanjiv Ahuja joined Orange SA in April 2003 as Chief Operating Officer and since March 2004 was Executive Vice President of France Telecom's Personal Communication Services, and , Comstellar's CEO. "This is a team with outstanding records of accomplishment and exemplary leadership skills." Dr. George H. Heilmeier Heilmeier joined Bellcore in 1991 as President and CEO and led its transformation from a narrowly focused consortium to a global commercial business before retiring in 1997. Earlier in his career, as Head of Solid State Device Research at RCA See RCA connector and video/TV history. , he earned the company's prestigious David Sarnoff Award for inventing the liquid-crystal display, immediately acclaimed as the most outstanding technical product of the year. In 1996, this accomplishment lead to Heilmeier's being recognized alongside Albert Einstein, Guglielmo Marconi, Madame Curie Curie (kürē`), family of French scientists. Pierre Curie, 1859–1906, scientist, and his wife, Marie Sklodowska Curie, 1867–1934, chemist and physicist, b. , the Wright Brothers and Thomas Edison as one of the pioneering inventors of the modern world. He also is one of the few individuals to be twice awarded the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, the highest civilian honor given by the Department of Defense. His many other honors include the National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, , presented to him by President George Bush. Edward A. Mueller Mueller was named President and CEO of Ameritech in September 2000. Ameritech is the premier provider of communications services in the Upper Midwest, serving nearly 20 million customers in five states. Prior to taking over at Ameritech, Mueller was President of SBC International Operations, managing an international portfolio spanning both the globe and the range of telecommunications technologies, with interests in over 20 countries. Other key positions held by Mueller during his distinguished 32-year career at SBC Communications include President and CEO of Pacific Bell, and before that, President and CEO of Southwestern Bell Telephone. To take just one example of his results-oriented management style, Mueller took leadership of Pacific Bell after the 1997 acquisition of Pacific Telesis Group by SBC Communications Inc. Within the first year under Mueller's direction, PacBell's operations improved significantly, including dramatic reductions in repair and installation times despite rising demand. By the second year, PacBell was among the highest-rated telecommunications companies in the annual J.D. Power and Associates customer satisfaction survey. Senator Larry Pressler Senator Pressler was elected from South Dakota to the U.S. Senate for three terms (from 1979-1997) and to the US House of Representatives for two terms (from 1975-1979). Upon leaving public service in 1997, he joined the distinguished Washington, D.C., law firm of O'Connor & Hannan as a Senior Partner. He also joined the boards of directors and boards of advisors of a number of technology companies. While his distinguished 22-year career in public office has many highlights, Senator Pressler is best known for his achievement as Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, where he was principal author of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. This sweeping reform of telecommunications legislation has since been hailed by some economists as the most important restructuring of a basic industry in world history. In the words of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, "When most people hear the name Pressler, they think of telecommunications. Through Chairman Pressler's efforts, we are now ready to take America's telecommunications industry into the 21st century." Senator Pressler will be lecturing this year at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX on telecommunications issues. Dr. Sachio Semmoto Semmoto founded eAccess to provide seamless Internet protocol services in 1999, returning to the private sector after three years as a Professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration at Keio University in Japan. Although long active as a lecturer at universities such as Harvard, Cambridge, Stanford and Northwestern, Semmoto is best known as an entrepreneur. He began his career at 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 , helping develop the first optical fiber system in Japan. He later led development of NTT's Information Network System, the first digital service in the world based on ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. technology. After rising to General Manager, he left NTT in 1983 to become Managing Director at Kyocera Corporation. In 1984, working with the Chairman of Kyocera, he co-founded DDI ddI and ddC: see AZT. Corporation, the first purely private telephone company in Japan. DDI set a record in 1993 as the largest IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. in Japan's history. In the early 1990s, to implement his vision for the Personal Handy Phone System (PHS (Personal Handyphone System) A TDMA-based cellular phone system introduced in Japan in mid-1995. Operating in the 1880-1930 MHz band, PHS uses microcells that cover an area only 100 to 500 meters in diameter, resulting in lower equipment costs but requiring more base ), Semmoto co-founded Japan's leading PHS company, DDI Pocket Telephone, Inc., serving as President. About Comstellar Technologies, Inc. Comstellar Technologies, Inc. ( www.comstellar.com ) is the premier organization for architecting innovative companies that will develop core disruptive technologies to dramatically improve the capabilities of the communications network and drive the next generation of communications. Its founders have a proven record of leadership and expertise in the communications industry at companies such as Telcordia, 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) , Sun, StratumOne, Cerent and Siara. Comstellar, with headquarters in New Jersey and California, has raised more than $140 million in investment capital, led by Accel Partners and New Enterprise Associates. Other investors include Clarity Partners, First Analysis Venture Capital, Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Ventures, Lehman Brothers, Mayfield Fund, Oak Investment Partners, and Soros Private Equity Partners. Redwood Ventures, the venture capital affiliate of Comstellar Technologies, is a seperate fund financing the broader universe of communications companies developing innovative and emerging technologies. The current fund is incorporated as Redwood Ventures IV, LP. |
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