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 GrummanBRUCE 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 CompanyRetired US Army MAJ. GEN. GALEN B. JACKMAN appointed Vice PresidentArmy Programs, US Business Development; formerly the Army's Chief of Legislative Liaison at the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill.
WCAIPresented 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 CommunicationsMARTY 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.accessPHILIP 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 PhotonicsTODD 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.
OnRampRALPH PHILLIPS promoted from President of TECOM (and a few other SMITHS companies) to President of SMITHS Interconnect.