Proactive Worldwide, Inc. Appoints New Technology Practice Director.ROLLING MEADOWS Rolling Meadows, city (1990 pop. 22,591), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1955. There is research and development and the manufacture of office supplies and electronic components. , Ill. -- Proactive Worldwide has appointed Mr. Alex Alavi as the Director of the firm's technology practice. Mr. Alavi brings with him nearly 25 years of 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. , business development, product management, and marketing experience in the wireline and wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. industries. His technical expertise includes wireline and wireless core networks/services and access technologies, including cellular RF, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, as well as emerging IP Multimedia and converged Fixed-Mobile services. In addition to working as a group marketing manager at Tellabs, Mr. Alavi held numerous leadership roles at Motorola over a 10-year period. Most recently, he directed strategic marketing and new business development for the North America region of Motorola's wireless infrastructure business, a sales/distribution organization with full operations and P&L responsibility. Earlier at Motorola, he was worldwide marketing manager for Motorola's Wireless Data Group, where he directed product marketing, marketing communications, public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , and global sales channels to develop and launch high performance wireless LAN and networking solutions in enterprises across the U.S., Europe, and Japan. Prior to working at Motorola, Mr. Alavi spent nearly 10 years with Lucent Technologies as a product and marketing manager, where he developed and deployed advanced PABX (Private Automatic Branch eXchange) Same as PBX. PABX - Private Automatic Branch eXchange and Class-5 switching systems and services, including SS7, CLASS, ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. , VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. , provisioning, billing, and network management solutions to support private enterprises and public telecom carriers. Mr. Alavi holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University. "We are confident that both his strong management skills and his keen insight into the technology and competitive intelligence fields will be a valuable addition to Proactive Worldwide and our clients," said Proactive's President David Kalinowski. Alex can be reached at 847.483.7363 or alexa@proactiveworldwide.com. About Proactive Worldwide Proactive Worldwide, Inc. specializes in customized business intelligence research and consulting services that provide insight and inform clients' strategic business decisions. Proactive's four practice areas are: Consumer and Industrial Goods, Financial Services, Life Sciences, and Technology. |
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