Collaborative: INDUSTRY NEWS Briefs

Posted: 8/2003

INDUSTRY NEWS

News Briefs

* First Virtual Communications,
a provider of rich media Web conferencing and collaboration solutions, has moved
its corporate headquarters to 3200 Bridge Parkway in Redwood City, Calif. The
company also maintains offices in Nashua, N.H. and McLean, Va., as well as
China, France, Hong Kong, Japan and the United Kingdom.

* Wire One Technologies Inc.,
a video conferencing services provider, says its board of directors has formed a
search committee to seek a new president and CEO. The company previously
announced a major shift in strategy through an agreement to sell its video
conferencing equipment division, which would allow the company to focus all of
its resources on accelerating the growth of its Glowpoint IP video
communications service. The company says current President Leo Flotron will
continue with the video conferencing equipment division after its sale.

* RADVISION Ltd. has named
Rob Hughes as vice president of sales, Americas, for RADVISION’s Networking
Business Unit, which offers video conferencing network solutions for IP- and
ISDN-based networks. Hughes brings conferencing sales experience from both the
channel and vendor side and will lead RADVISION’s video conferencing sales
efforts throughout the Americas. Hughes was president of VSGi, a provider of
video, audio and data collaboration technologies, and, was vice president of
North American channel sales for Polycom Inc..

* TANDBERG has hired
technology industry veteran Toni Lee Rudnicki the newly created role of chief
marketing officer (CMO). Rudnicki joins TANDBERG from Aspen Technology Inc.,
where she served as vice president of marketing. She also has held positions
from worldwide marketing director to vice president of marketing with companies
such as Digital Equipment Corp., General Electric Space Division and Dow
Chemical. In her position as CMO at TANDBERG, Rudnicki will be responsible for
all global marketing activities including analyst relations, advertising, public
relations, branding, messaging, product marketing, Web communication and
collateral development.

* The board of directors for Polycom
Inc. has appointed Betsy Atkins as lead independent director. Atkins will
work to enhance board effectiveness, preside over the meetings of independent
directors without management present and serve as liaison between the board and
management. Atkins has served on the Polycom board since April 1999. Atkins is
president and CEO of Baja LLC, an independent venture capital firm that focuses
on high-tech companies during their early stages of development. She has 23
years of public company corporate governance experience. She has served on the
board of directors for Lucent Technologies Inc. and UTStarcom.

* Sonexis Inc., has moved
corporate headquarters to accommodate the company’s growing business of selling
in-house audio and Web conferencing systems to large and mid-sized companies.
The company’s new address will be 495 Network Center, 400 Network Center Drive
in Tewksbury, Mass. The new 14,445 square-foot space provides Sonexis with
facilities for training and customer support, a larger quality assurance
laboratory and expanded resources for the engineering, inside sales, management
and marketing organizations.