ProfitLine Names Don Carros Director of Contract Management

In this role, Carros will serve as senior counsel in many of the special projects ProfitLine conducts on behalf of its large enterprise clients, such as request-for-proposal preparation, negotiation of telecom contracts, cellular optimization, physical circuit inventories, network migration, and annual benchmarking services. Carros has 20 years of experience in every aspect of telecommunication management….

Verity Appoints Jack Landers

Landers will report to Steven R. Springsteel, senior vice president of finance and administration and chief financial officer. In his new position at Verity, Landers will oversee all human resources activities, including benefits, compensation, employee communications, coaching, recruitment, development and retention. In addition, as the company continues on its strategic growth path, evidenced by its…

Brightmail Appoints Jeffry R. Allen to Board

Allen has extensive experience in financial and operational leadership at a variety of enterprise-focused communications technology firms. At Network Appliance he has overseen the company’s strong financial performance and rapid revenue growth. In his current role as executive vice president, Jeff manages manufacturing operations and has responsibilities for Network Appliance’s product management, content delivery and…

4thpass Names Fran Dougherty COO

Dougherty will help grow the 4thpass operator customer base, drive sales and software development and oversee day-to-day operations at the Seattle-based wireless software company. During his 20 years in the high technology industry, Dougherty served in key roles at Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. Most recently, he was Director of Strategic Partnerships and Director of Platform…

Proofpoint Names Bill Crane vice president

Crane brings more than 20 years of experience in software engineering to Proofpoint, including service as a software developer for IBM and a manager at Sun Microsystems. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Crane led the development of the industry- Web acceleration and security appliance at Redline Networks. Prior to joining Redline Networks, Crane served as senior…

AXS-One Appoints William P. Lyons CEO

Bill Lyons replaces John A. Rade, who, as previously announced, is retiring after seven years with AXS-One but will remain with the company as a non-executive employee. Lyons joins AXS-One after serving as chief executive in high growth software companies for large enterprise markets. In his last assignment he served as President and CEO of…

palmOne Announces Transition of CFO

Bruner joined palmOne as senior vice president and chief financial officer in September 1999 following 11 years at 3Com Corp. She will remain with palmOne through June 18 to facilitate a smooth transition. The company has launched a search for her successor. Philippe Morali, palmOne vice president of corporate development and treasury, will serve as…

AppForge Promotes Merrill Oakes

Prior to joining AppForge, Oakes spent eight years at Sun Microsystems where he most recently managed a Global Solution Providers software sales team that increased sales significantly within a year. Oakes has more than 17 years of technology sales & sales management experience with companies such as Lotus Development/IBM and Software Publishing Corporation, where he…

Brocade Expands Board

Sanjay Vaswani is a partner at the Center for Corporate Innovation (CCI), a consultancy that addresses business strategy, industry dynamics, management leadership issues and organizational design, with over 100 CEO’s of industry technology and healthcare organizations. Vaswani also currently serves on the Board of Directors at Persistence Software and at Blue Star Infotech Limited. Previously,…

Sygate Attracts Former Cisco Security Manager

Prior to joining Sygate, McCormack served as general manager of the Secure Managed Networks Business Unit of Cisco where he led a global implementation team of more than 300 engineers, marketing and development experts responsible for a broad range of security and network management hardware and software products.