Tel Aviv, Israel. 8 December 2004.  Gadi Tamari was appointed CEO of RADVISION Ltd. in April 2001. Gadi is an engineer with education in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. He also has an executive MBA degree from Harvard University. He has worked for 20 years in the USA, mainly for Israeli telecommunications and high tech companies. When Lucent bought Excel in 1996, he became responsib...   (read article)

8 November 2004. Philippe Szwarc was appointed Chief Executive Officer of  Arel Communications and Software in October 2002. Prior to Arel, Philippe spent seven years working for MRV Communications, a world leader in optical components and networking, where he led four operational units. Arel is an American company quoted on NASDAQ with headquarters in Atlanta, GA and international headqua...   (read article)

20 October 2004. Andrew Miller was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 28 January 2002. He joined after working 10 years with Cisco as a member of Cisco’s executive management team including Vice President of Global Marketing, Customer Advocacy and Area Vice President, U.S. Sales. Earlier in his career he had spent 10 years with Nortel at a period when that company grew rapidly. His office is ...   (read article)

5 October 2004. Bob Hagerty joined Polycom as President and CEO under Chairman and Founder Brian Hinman at the end of 1997. After 18 months Brian Hinman left to start a new company 2Wire and Bob became Chairman and CEO. Bob Hagerty has taken Polycom from a small company specialising in audio endpoints to  be the company we praised as Unified Conferencing Company of the year 2003. We interv...   (read article)

MASERGY is a privately-held Dallas-based global provider of intelligent IP network services suitable for global video networks. The company connects medium-to-large businesses and multinational companies around the globe to its MPLS network. It was founded in 2000 by Barry D. Nalls, who is the president and CEO.
As far as the videoconferencing industry is concerned the excellence of MASERGY’...   (read article)

8 June 2004. The editor interviewed Giulio Viezzoli, CEO of Aethra just 12 months after visiting the Aethra headquarters and plant in Ancona Italy in June 2003. Since then, Aethra has continued to enhance its videoconferencing systems and broaden the range with new products. Mr. Viezzoli  tells us that Aethra is a telecommunications equipment company which also produces test equipment; as ...   (read article)

7 June 2004. Jonathan G. Morgan has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of First Virtual Communications since October 2003; before that, he was the interim CEO for one year. He had been a director of CUseeMe® Networks (formerly White Pine Software) since 1996. When CUseeMe Networks merged with First Virtual Communications in June 2001, he continued as a member of the Company’s Board...   (read article)

Ed Ellett joined Polycom in February 2003 as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Video Communications. Since then, Polycom has improved and unified the product line and reorganised marketing and sales to good effect. Ed knows the PC industry very well as he held various senior general manager positions at Compaq Computer Corporation from 1996 to 2001 and earlier at Dell Computer Corporat...   (read article)

16 February 2003. Dan Somers came across videoconferencing when he was working as a Strategy Consultant in London. When working with client companies mainly in the transport and IT industries, he saw people using videoconferencing to great effect. But he also saw that a lot of people were not using it. He set out to discover why not and when he found the answer, decided to establish vc-net to p...   (read article)