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Dave Masotti has been hired as executive VP and chief marketing officer at Call-Net Enterprises Inc. He joins Call-Net from DFM Consulting where he was principal. Prior to that, he was president and CEO at Skulogix Inc. and president of Spar Space Systems. He has also worked at Rogers Cablesystems, Spar Aerospace, Northern Telecom, and Sprint Canada, where he helped develop the company’s entry into the wireless business and on its DSL products. Susan Hutt has joined Workbrain Corp. as senior VP of global services. She assumes responsibility for the company’s consulting, hosting and training organizations. Prior to joining Workbrain, she served as group VP of global services at PeopleSoft. Hutt began her enterprise software career with integral systems, and was recruited to PeopleSoft in 1994 as a senior customer service executive. Bill Compton has been named as senior VP of worldwide sales at NRX. In his 20-year career, he has been involved in the supply chain management, enterprise resource planning and e-procurement markets. Previously, he has worked as VP of worldwide sales at Talaris, VP of the southern region at PeopleSoft, and group VP at i2 Technologies. NRX is provider of collaboration and data management solutions for enterprise asset management in asset-intensive industries. Former Nortel Networks Corp. executive Bill Hews has been appointed chair of the board of directors of Wi-LAN Inc., replacing company founder Hatim Zaghloul. Hews, who served as president of Wi-LAN from September 1999 to September 2001, has been a board member since April 2000. Jim Hjartarson is leaving Ciena Corp. to launch a start-up. James Frodsham, formerly with Nortel Networks and Innovance, will take over responsibility for Ciena’s broadband access group. Hjartarson and four former Nortel engineers founded Catena Networks in 1999, which was later bought by Ciena. Aastra Technologies Ltd. has appointed Tony Shen as co-CEO, effective immediately. Shen will continue with his previous responsibilities as president and COO. The other co-CEO is Francis Shen. The promotion is in recognition of Tony Shen’s contribution in both size and scope that he has made to the success of the company. Nortel Networks Corp. appears to be readying for a changing of the guard. The company announced on Friday March 4 that it had appointed former Cisco Systems Inc. executive Gary Daichendt as president and COO, effective March 14. That date will also see Bill Owens, currently president and CEO, become CEO and vice-chair of the board of directors. Also effective March 14, Pascal Debon, currently president of carrier networks, will assume the role of special advisor to the vice-chair and CEO. According to analysts this position is usually reserved for executives who are on their way out of the executive offices. Peter Currie, who became CFO on February 14, will add the executive VP title effective March 14. Daichendt, previously executive VP worldwide operations at Cisco, was one of the key executives in charge of the company during the 1990s when the company experienced significant international expansion. An upcoming issue of Network Letter will have more detail on the impact of the executive changes. Meriton Networks has appointed Michael Pascoe as CEO. He marks yet another former Newbridge Networks/Alcatel employee to join the Ottawa company’s ranks. Pascoe was formerly the CEO of PairGrain Technologies, a Californian company that was acquired by ADC Telecommunications in 2000 for US$3 billion. At Newbridge, he was president of the U.S. division as well as holding the executive VP and GM position for North and South American business regions. John Valentini will be leaving his position as CFO of Emergis Inc. at the beginning of April to pursue another career opportunity. He joined the company in 2002, and was involved in making arrangements for the sale of its U.S. health operations, and streamlining activities. The company has begun an external search for candidates for the CFO position. John Gutpell, currently VP of investor relations and corporate communications at Emergis, will assume the functions of CFO on an interim basis.

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