RIM has confirmed that Jim Tobin, senior vice-president for software and business services, left the company months ago. RIM never officially announced the departure, despite the fact that Mr. Tobin reported directly to co-CEO Jim Balsillie.
Mr. Tobin was responsible for a recent move by RIM into cloud services, and also worked on a team that developed the song-sharing service BBM Music.
Sandvine, a provider of intelligent network policy control solutions for fixed and mobile operators, announced that Steven McCartney has left the company's Board.
As well, David Thomson, business consultant, speaker and bestselling author of Blueprint to a Billion, has joined Sandvine's Board of Directors.
Mr. Thomson is the Founder and Chairman of The Blueprint Growth Institute, a specialized management-consulting firm focused on helping companies develop growth strategies and execute the 7 Essentials. His insights that identified the quantitative success pattern of America's highest growth companies-which he wrote about in his best-seller Blueprint to a Billion-have been embraced globally. Thomson's Blueprint and 7 Essentials have been featured in media such as The NY Times, Investor's Business Daily, USATODAY, ABCNews.com, BusinessWeek.com, and many others. Thomson is best known by management teams for his 7 Essentials Scorecard and Workshops to help companies grow.
Thomson has been studying and leading business growth for twenty years in general management and executive sales/marketing at Nortel Networks and Hewlett-Packard and as an associate principal during his five years at McKinsey & Company. Thomson graduated with an electrical engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario.
Research In Motion’s (RIM’s) John Vandermay, former vice president of BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), is leaving the Waterloo, Ont.-based company. Mr. Vandermay is joining the Vancouver-based mining software company Gemcom Software International as vice president of product development. Mr. Vandermay, who first assumed his role in April 2010, is the fifth senior executive to leave RIM in the last six months.
RIM’s senior director of global developer relations, Mike Kirkup, has announced his resignation, saying he will leave the company to pursue other opportunities. This has created some uncertainty for developers just as the BlackBerry maker struggles to attract software developers to its family of mobile devices.
Mobilicity has fired three of its senior executives: Doug Perry, head of sales; Sara Moore, vice-president of marketing; and Sharyn Gravelle, vice-president network operations.
The company hired chief customer officer Anthony Booth a month ago.
“Like many organizations, which evolve from a ‘build’ to operational phase, we have streamlined our management team to reduce redundancies and improve efficiencies,” a statement from Stewart Lyons, the carrier’s chief operating officer said.
Siemens Healthcare has appointed Gregory Sorensen, MD, as chief executive officer (CEO) of Siemens Healthcare in the U.S.A., effective June 1. Sorensen succeeds Randy Hill, who has served as interim CEO. Sorensen will also oversee the Canadian activities of Siemens Healthcare.
Sorensen will be responsible for leading the marketing, sales, service, and support functions for Siemens Healthcare in the U.S.A. and Canada across the entire Healthcare portfolio including medical imaging, therapy, healthcare information technology, and laboratory diagnostics. He will be based at the U.S. headquarters in Malvern, PA.
Sorensen is currently serving as Professor of Radiology and Health Sciences & Technology at Harvard Medical School; faculty member of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; and Co-Director of the A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
Sorensen is a practicing neuroradiologist and active researcher with significant experience in clinical care, clinical trials, and translational research. His research and techniques are utilized by scores of centers throughout the world in phase II and III trials of novel oncology agents such as gene therapy.
Cisco Systems has named Juniper executive David Yen to run its server access and virtualization technology (SAVTG) unit. The SAVTG division, which includes Cisco's Unified Computing System and the Nexus family of data center switches, is targeted at the burgeoning data center and cloud computing trend.
Yen will take over the unit's duties from Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain and Luca Cafiero, the trio that founded of Nuova Systems, which Cisco acquired in 2008 and thus created the SAVTG unit. Mazzola, Jain and Cafiero will continue to work for Cisco in advisory roles.
Prior to taking on his new role at Cisco, Yen was executive vice president and general manager of Juniper Network's Fabric and Switching Business Group, where he lead Qfabric, the vendor's multiyear data center network research and development initiative. Before Juniper, Yen spent 20 years at Sun Microsystems, overseeing the development of Sun's first-and-second-generation multi-CPU servers.
Nokia Siemens Networks has announced the appointment of Rick Corker to lead its business in North America. Corker, an Australian citizen, is currently head of the company´s Asia-Pacific region. Corker will be based in Dallas and his appointment is effective from April 15 2011.
Corker succeeds Sue Spradley, who will continue to serve as a non-executive advisor to Nokia Siemens Networks and as a member of the company´s external advisory board.
AT&T financial chief Rick Lindner is retiring and will be replaced by company controller John Stephens. Lindner, who will retire on June 1, 2011, has served as AT&T's CFO since 2004. Before taking his current post, Lindner was CFO at Cingular Wireless. Cingular Wireless bought AT&T Wireless in 2004, and the combined companies eventually became AT&T Mobility. Stephens has worked at AT&T for 19 years and has served as controller since 2001, where he handled financial reporting and operations, business planning and accounting policy.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion’s chief marketing officer, Kim Pardy, has decided to leave the company for personal reasons. He will continue to help the company over a six-month transition period. No successor plans were announced. Mr. Pardy had previously been a marketing executive at Nokia and Coca-Cola.
