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Charlotte Burke has been appointed VP global marketing and business development at Classwave Wireless Inc, Toronto. She brings more than 15 years of telecommunications experience to the emerging Bluetooth player with such companies as Bell Canada, Bell Mobility, Compaq Computer Corp and Sony Corp. Most recently, Burke was responsible for the development and marketing of enhanced high-speed DSL and wireless services at Bell Mobility. She has also held positions of director digital PCS at the mobility company and VP of mass market data/IP at Bell Canada. Burke was instrumental in securing several strategic partnerships with Microsoft, Phone.com, IBM, Lucent, Nortel Networks and others. In her new capacity, she will spearhead Classwave’s global marketing initiatives, while providing direction to the senior management team on how to best position the company to compete on a global scale. Sierra Wireless Inc has added two seasoned executives to its management team. Gary Overstreet has been appointed VP North American distribution and Jeff Miller becomes VP business development. Both are veterans of the communications industry. Overstreet, who brings more than 21 years experience to the table, was previously area sales VP at Avaya – the former enterprise networks group of Lucent Technologies. He also held the position of GM channel support at Lucent. Miller has more than 18 years experience of national and global sales and management in the wireless and computer industries. Most recently, he was worldwide director of business development for Motorola’s personal area network group. In that capacity, he helped launch the company’s Bluetooth initiative. Cell-Loc Inc, Calgary, has appointed James Hill, CFO, effective today. He will also serve in the same capacity with Cell-Loc’s network subsidiary TimesThree. Hill comes to Cell-Loc with more than 25 years experience in corporate finance. Prior to joining the company, he was CFO at Dalsa Corp. Robert Lande has resigned as president/CEO Canbras Communications. He moves to CFO at the newly formed Telecom Americas Ltd. Lande will continue to have a seat on the board. Thomas Steele has been named president/CEO in the interim. Telus Corp has made some major additions to its executive ranks. John Chang has been named executive VP and president of Telus’ new Client Solutions business unit. The new unit will launch Jan 1. Chang is currently VP of advanced business application solutions at ISM-BC, a wholly owned Telus subsidiary. He joined ISM-BC in 1994 holding executive positions in sales, operations and application management. Robert McFarlane has been appointed executive VP and CFO at Telus. He will also serve in the same capacity for Telus Mobility. He held a similar position with Clearnet Communications. Additionally, Barry Baptie becomes executive VP technology and operations. He was previously executive VP and CFO for the company. Graham Smith has been named chief sales and marketing officer at Wi-LAN Inc, Calgary, effective Nov 29. He brings 25 years experience in the wireless industry, including 15 of those at Motorola where he was most recently VP and area manager, Canada. After leaving Motorola, he was appointed VP sales and marketing where he later served as executive VP and COO at Telular Canada Inc/Global Data Inc until 1995. Smith then set up his own private consulting firm and in October became a senior advisor to Wi-LAN. Hatim Zaghloul, chair/CEO at Wi-LAN says, Smith’s appointment completes the major steps towards becoming a marketing-driven organization. Ottawa-based Chrysalis-ITS Inc has appointed Carlos Fox VP marketing and business development. He joins the company from netPCS Networks Inc, also of Ottawa, where he served as executive VP marketing and business development. Fox brings more than 20 years experience in marketing and business development and will be responsible for implementing marketing strategies to enhance the company’s position in the e-security marketplace. He has also held senior level positions with JetForm Corp, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. Robert Lewis has been appointed to the newly created position of VP content development at Rogers Media Inc, a subsidiary of Rogers Communications. He will be responsible for the sharing of existing content and the creation of new multimedia content within the company. Lewis worked at Maclean’s for the past 25 years and has been editor for the past seven. Report on Wireless welcomes personnel notices. Please submit them to: newsdesk@decima.ca.

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News | November 27, 2000

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