Nieland Heads KSW Microtec AG R&D
CARSTEN NIELAND will head the company’s R&D
division for high-security products. He is responsible
for KSW’s inlay and Thinlam products used in the
fast-growing access and e-government market segments
for access cards, driver licenses, and electronic
GORDON
ID cards. Before joining KSW Microtec, Nieland held a number of key
executive roles in the RFID industry at Cubit Electronics, ITG, and
HID Global. In these roles, he was responsible for the development of
e-passport inlays and the introduction of new technologies and products
in this sector. Such developments resulted in the startup of inlay production
for the first e-passport project in Europe and for the coordination,
qualification, and commercialization of all types of ID document and
smart-card inlay products for e-government applications.
BitWave Semiconductor, Inc.—DR. GREGORY
W. SHEETS appointed Vice President
of Engineering; formerly responsible
for managing a global team of engineers
developing mixed-signal ASICs
at LSI Logic.
Northrop Grumman—BRUCE S. GORDON elected to the Board of Directors, which
totals 14 members —13 of whom are nonemployee
directors.
Gordon completed
a 35-year career in
the telecommunications
industry
in 2003, retiring
as the President of
the Retail Markets
Group for Verizon
Communications,
Inc. He currently serves as Lead Director
of Tyco International Ltd. and as a
Director of CBS Corp.
Raytheon Company—Retired US Army
MAJ. GEN. GALEN B. JACKMAN appointed
Vice President—Army Programs, US
Business Development; formerly the
Army’s Chief of Legislative Liaison at
the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill.
WCAI—Presented Government Leadership
Award to Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) Chairman KEVIN
MARTIN for helping to transform the
wireless broadband industry and tripling
the wireless spectrum.
Staccato Communications—MARTY
COLOMBATTO maintains the role of Chief
Executive Officer after the merger with
Artimi; ANDREW VOUGHT, previously
Chief Executive Officer of Artimi, will
assume the role of Chief Operating
Officer.
ip.access—PHILIP RIMELL appointed
Chief Operating Officer; formerly with
Jacobs Rimell, which he co-founded
in 1997. He succeeds outgoing Chief
Operating Officer Alan Hewit, who
is retiring after establishing ip.acess’
femtocell delivery program.
Lockheed Martin Corp.—BRIAN D. DAILEY,
Senior Vice President, Washington
Operations, will retire on April 1, 2009;
formerly served as the Principal Liaison
with government customers in the Executive
and Legislative branches. GREGORY
R. DAHLBERG, currently Vice President of
Corporate Legislative Affairs, will succeed
Dailey effective Jan. 1, 2009.
Avo Photonics—TODD RIXMAN appointed
Technical Engineering Manager
reporting to DR. TOM HASLETT, CTO
of the company; formerly performed
optical and mechanical design at Princeton
Lightwave, JDSU, and Kulicke &
Soffa Industries.
OnRamp—RALPH PHILLIPS promoted
from President of TECOM (and a few
other SMITHS companies) to President
of SMITHS Interconnect.
