TEK DigiTel CORPORATION STRENGTHENS MANAGEMENT TEAM,HIRES FORMER MOTOROLA EXECUTIVE TO DIRECT NEW PRODUCT SALES AND MARKETING
GERMANTOWN, MARYLAND --- (BUSINESS WIRE) – December 7, 1998—TEK DigiTel today announced that it has further strengthened its management team with the appointment of John DiPangrazio, as Executive Vice President. DiPangrazio is responsible for sales and distribution, product marketing and marketing communications efforts related to TEK DigiTel’s products and services worldwide. TEK DigiTel's exciting new lines of V-Servers are telephony "gateways" that route voice and fax calls in the exploding new field of Internet Telephony communications.
"John is a valuable addition to our executive management team," said Thomas Yang, President and CEO of TEK DigiTel, pointing out that "in addition to his many years of sales and marketing experience, John has most recently been on the cutting edge of the Internet telephony and telecom business markets. We are delighted to have John on board helping to secure a leadership position for TEK DigiTel in the emerging market for Internet telephony solutions. John's extensive experience in developing markets and distribution channels for innovative data networking products make him a great fit to develop the market for TEK DigiTel's new line of voice-over-Internet ("VoIP") products."
A ten-year veteran of Motorola, DiPangrazio was National Sales Manager of Motorola’s Internet telephony business unit based in Austin, Texas, a leading systems integrator focused on supporting new voice-over-Internet business opportunities. In that role he helped drive the marketing and distribution strategies for Motorola’s IP telephony and Voice FRAD (frame relay access device) solutions around the world. John also held various positions at Motorola with responsibility for developing sales of FRAD and voice-over-frame relay (VoFR) products. His background also includes a variety of business development and senior sales positions at Hypercom, Ungermann-Bass, BellSouth and Harris/Lanier. DiPangrazio graduated from The Ohio State University, and has continued his education with various business management courses.
TEK DigiTel has a unique position in the marketplace as a pioneer in the development of self-provisioning, entry-level devices that enable network providers to easily migrate customers to their wide range of innovative, enhanced services becoming available worldwide. These new services are predicted to have explosive growth among enterprise users, driven by their ability to empower consumers with easier interaction with merchants to perform more transactions online. "I'm excited to be on the TEK team," DiPangrazio said, adding "TEK DigiTel has the right products timed just right for a hot new industry. I’m looking forward to working with the team to make products like the V-Server a commonplace item for businesses wanting to exploit the advantages of combined voice and data networks."
About TEK DigiTel Corporation
Founded in March 1996, TEK DigiTel is a technology company that has invested several years of research and development pioneering Internet access devices for homes and businesses. The company creates technological leadership through superior understanding of unique applications that merge the content rich Internet with toll quality voice over a single telephone line, and through exceptional ability to develop elements that allow customers to enable those applications. In early 1999, TEK is poised to begin delivering a new line of telephony gateways that route voice and fax calls in the exploding new field of Internet Telephony communications. The new V-Servers are built upon a high-performance embedded architecture, are based upon universal standards that enable interoperability, and are of telecom-grade quality. The V-Servers enable telephone communications between the public Internet, private Intranets, public switched telephone networks, key telephone systems and PBX systems. The new line of devices has been architected to compliment and enhance existing business system investments (not replace them); provide seamless integration into existing telecom and computing infrastructures; offer benefits of self-provisioning through superior management and administration; integrate with industry leading real-time billing systems for quick and easy subscriber self-activation and -maintenance through a self-service Web site.
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Safe Harbor Statement: Statements in this news release looking forward in time involve risks and uncertainties, including the risks associated with the effect of changing economic conditions, trends in the development of the Internet as a commercial medium and carrier of telephony traffic, market acceptance risks, technological development risks, seasonality and other risk factors.