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Print Edition StoriesWednesday, November 4, 2009
Changing Places
Who's coming? Who's going? Who's changing places?
Companies born in the recession
MHT's Galen Moore: Hiring trends and opportunities
MHT's Doug Banks: 10 Women to Watch in tech
Services
New Marketing Labs, the digital marketing and social communications agency led by Mass High Tech All-Star Chris Brogan, has brought on board Colin Bower as principal to manage the agency’s business and corporate development, and Robert Collins as principal to lead the agency’s professional services team. Bower previously served as AOL Interactive’s director of business development and has been a successful CEO in the digital media space. He also ran a multimillion-dollar global business division for Arthur Andersen consulting. Collins has 18 years of traditional, digital and online marketing, and agency management experience working with global brands. He is the producer and host of Boston’s Social Media Breakfast. Prior to joining New Marketing Labs, Collins was vice president of new media and account services with SHIFT Communications.
The Oliver Group, a Pawtucket, Conn.-based electronic discovery and compliance services firm, has named Michael Chagnon as national sales manager. Chagnon was a key contributor to client and business growth at Ibis Consulting, a leading electronic discovery processing firm which was acquired by Pitney Bowes in 2006. Most recently, Chagnon served as sales director for Pitney Bowes Litigation and Document Services, managing the national sales team.
The Training Associates of Westborough has named Bruce Berfield as manager of business development. Berfield has more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience, doing business with Fortune 1000 corporate clients such as Fidelity Investments, John Hancock, Verizon, Raytheon, State Street Bank, Pfizer, Wellington Management, EMC, United Technologies and the Department of Defense.
Imaginatik plc, an intelligence firm with offices in Boston and London, has appointed Matthew Cooper as non-executive chairman of the board, replacing Howard Marshall who retires from the board following three years with the company. Marshall will also join the Imaginatik advisory board. Cooper has been the chairman of Octopus Capital Limited since 2002. Prior to joining Octopus, he was the principal managing director of Capital One Bank (Europe) plc where he was responsible for all aspects of the company’s strategic direction and day-to-day operations in Europe.
Software
Kadient Inc., a Lowell-based maker of on-demand sales enablement applications, has hired Elizabeth Ricci as senior vice president of products. Before joining Kadient, Ricci served as senior vice president of products at Authoria Inc. Prior to Authoria, she also managed engineering teams at MatrixOne, FTP Software, and Digital Equipment Corp., now part of Hewlett Packard Co. Ricci holds U.S. and Canadian software patents in network configuration ease-of-use. She was named as a 2005 Mass High Tech Women to Watch honoree.
Burlington-based Nuxeo, a maker of open source enterprise content management software and services, has hired Cheryl McKinnon as chief marketing officer. Most recently, McKinnon was director, program management – enterprise 2.0 at Open Text. She also oversaw the company’s collaboration content management and flagship ECM products. Prior to Open Text, McKinnon worked at Hummingbird, which Open Text later acquired, and PC DOCS.
Conversion Associates, a business intelligence firm based in Allston, has named Philip Sawyer as a strategic partner to the firm. Sawyer brings to the position more than two decades of advertising-research experience from his tenure as senior vice president at GFK, and director of Starch Communications. Sawyer is also a former editor of Tested Copy, a contributor to numerous publications including AdAge.com and Mediapost, and a regular public speaker.
Wireless
Phillip Stathas has joined M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. of Lowell as director of information technology. Stathas has more than 27 years of experience in the semiconductor, components and high volume manufacturing industry. Nine of those years were spent with M/A-COM, where he directed the company’s management information systems activities For the past few years, Stathas has served in senior leadership IT positions at Thermo Fisher Scientific, CMGI/Modus Link Corp. and Thermo Electron.
Networks
Sonus Networks Inc. of Westford has named Kumar Vishwanathan as vice president of engineering and chief architect. Vishwanathan most recently served as the co-founder and vice president of solutions for envIO Networks, a mobile content and social marketing platform provider. Vishwanathan was part of the founding team at Winphoria Networks. After Motorola’s acquisition of Winphoria Networks in May 2003, Vishwanathan served as the senior director of engineering where he was responsible for overseeing the development of the company’s Core Networks product line. Prior to Winphoria Networks, Vishwanathan worked at Lucent Bell laboratories.
Education
The University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester has named John E. Ware Jr. as professor and chief of outcomes measurement science in the department of quantitative health sciences. Ware comes to UMass Medical School from QualityMetric Inc., a company he founded in 1997 that was focused on health survey tools, where he served as CEO, chairman of the board and chief science officer. Before launching QualityMetric, Ware served for 12 years as senior scientist at the Health Institute at New England Medical Center (NEMC) in Boston. Prior to moving to Boston, Ware was senior research psychologist for 14 years at the Rand Corp.
Finance
America’s Growth Capital has hired Timothy Harned as partner in the firm’s investment banking group, focused on the communications, networking and clean technology arenas. His extensive Wall Street experience spans Morgan Stanley, Banc of America Securities, Montgomery Securities and Lehman Brothers. For the last 12 years he has been focused on technology investment banking, having served in leadership roles as managing director at Banc of America Securities, executive director at Morgan Stanley and head of technology and media investment banking at Capstone Partners.
Security
Sophos Inc. has named Arabella Hallawell as vice president of corporate strategy, a newly created position at the Burlington-based company. Hallawell recently held the position of research vice president at Gartner Inc., where she focused on the anti-virus, endpoint, e-mail security and web filtering security markets, and led Gartner’s global privacy program.
Alternative energy
Joule Biotechnologies Inc. of Cambridge has named Fritz Morgan as senior vice president of engineering and manufacturing, and Peter D. Karol as vice president and general counsel. Morgan will oversee Joule’s SolarConverter system development. Prior to Joule he was chief technology officer of Color Kinetics. Morgan supervised LED system development across multiple international R&D centers for Philips Lighting. He previously worked as a research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab. Karol was previously general counsel at Color Kinetics through its acquisition by Philips. Prior to Color Kinetics, he spent five years at Lycos, Inc., where he rose to the position of general counsel.
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