Dynamic Switch Startup Lands Seasoned Executives to Run Its Marketing, Business Development and Sales Efforts
CHELMSFORD, MA - May 20, 2003 - Acopia Networks, Inc., a developer of Adaptive Resource Networking products, today announced the appointment of Brendon Howe as vice president of marketing and business development, and Philip Scott as vice president of sales. Howe will oversee Acopia's product management, corporate marketing and overall business development initiatives. Scott assumes responsibility for development and management of Acopia's worldwide sales organization.
"Brendon and Phil bring years of demonstrated leadership and accomplishment to the Acopia team," said Christopher P. Lynch, president and CEO of Acopia Networks. "Their depth of experience in the networking systems space, coupled with their leadership skills in building and leading marketing and sales organizations in entrepreneurial environments, will enable us to quickly and effectively achieve our business goals."
Howe joins Acopia with over 19 years experience in technology marketing, spanning a wide variety of products and market segments. Most recently, Howe was vice president of marketing at Trebia Networks, Inc., an early pioneer of storage network processors used for fiber channel and IP storage network connectivity. He has held various executive management positions with leaders in the data communications arena including Synernetics (acquired by 3COM Corporation), and Indus River Networks (acquired by Enterasys).
Scott joins Acopia with over 18 years experience in the selling of technology and networking products. Previously with Blue Coat Systems (formerly CacheFlow, Inc.), the company that originated caching appliances to improve Internet performance and end-user response time for enterprises, Scott held various executive sales management roles including vice president of North America and EMEA sales and was most recently vice president of worldwide sales. Prior to CacheFlow, Scott was a general manager in the Lucent Technologies DNS Business Unit following the acquisition of Prominet Corporation. He has also held sales and management posts in high profile networking companies such as Ipsilon Networks, Bay Networks, Wellfleet Communications, Synoptics, 3Com and others.
Acopia Networks, headquartered in Lowell, MA, is the innovator of Adaptive Resource Networking platforms that provide a new foundation for intelligently managing the global distribution of data. Acopia's switches hide the "back end" complexity from users and increase the utilization of today's resources. The company was founded in 2002 by industry visionary and serial entrepreneur Cheng Wu and a team of talented engineers from companies such as Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), EMC (NYSE: EMC), Network Appliance (NASDAQ: NTAP) and others throughout the high technology industry.
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Contact:
Joe Wisniewski
Acopia Networks, Inc.
978-513-2979
jwisniewski@acopia.com