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TOP MANAGEMENT
• Novalux Appoints Board Director Ian Jenks as Pres & CEO
• Healthcare Info Firm Resolution Names New President

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
• Xenon Names Celia Courchene as VP, Business Development

MARKETING & SALES
• Cereva Networks Hires Kurt Reiss as Marketing VP
• MontaVista Names Raymond Mak VP Sales for Asia Pacific
• Mitch Bishop Appointed VP of Marketing for TightLink

FINANCE
• ForwardVue Names Ashley Abbot as VP, Financial Engineering
• Gupta Adds Jeff Bailey as CFO, Anne O'Callahan as Mkt Dir

TECHNOLOGY
• Pacific Edge Names Thomas Haug VP of Engineering
• Vericept Names Bruce Chittenden SVP of Engineering

TOP MANAGEMENT

• Novalux Appoints Board Director Ian Jenks as Pres & CEOtop   mail 
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- Novalux, a provider of laser modules for optical networks, said it has named Ian Jenks president and CEO. Mr. Jenks, former president of Uniphase Lasers and Fiber Optics, has been on the board of directors since May 1998.

Mr. Jenks replaces Malcolm Thompson, who will step down from the board of directors but remain on the company's technical advisory board. An adviser to the company since its inception, Mr. Jenks recently served as chairman of Oplink Communications.

The company is backed by $135 million from investors including Crescendo Ventures, Cisco Systems, Credit Suisse First Boston, Crown Advisors, DynaFund, Intel Capital, Lamoreaux Partners, MSD Capital, NorthEast Ventures, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Venture Partners, RWI, Salomon Smith Barney, Sternhill Partners, Telesoft Partners, Tredegar Investments, U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, and Vanguard Venture Partners.

http://www.novalux.com

• Healthcare Info Firm Resolution Names New Presidenttop   mail 
SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Resolution Health, a healthcare information technology company, said it named Earl Steinberg president.

Mr. Steinberg was formerly the company's vice president of industry affairs. The company is backed by I-Care.

Telephone: 408-882-0678


BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

• Xenon Names Celia Courchene as VP, Business Development top   mail 
VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Xenon Genetics, a clinical genomics-based drug discovery company, sad it named Celia M. Courchene as vice president, business development.

Ms. Courchene formerly served as vice president of business development and legal affairs for QLT, a Vancouver-based biotechnology company that spun off from the University of British Columbia. Prior to that position, she headed business development activities for NeXstar Pharmaceuticals before it was acquired by Gilead Sciences.

In May, Xenon closed its mezzanine round of funding with $47.6 million from Fidelity Management & Research, GrowthWorks Capital, InterWest Partners, Invesco Private Capital, J.P. Morgan Partners, Novo A/S, and Pfizer, Royal Bank Capital Partners, and Ventures West Management.

http://www.xenongenetics.com

MARKETING & SALES

• Cereva Networks Hires Kurt Reiss as Marketing VPtop   mail 
MARLBOROUGH, MASS. -- Cereva Networks, a developer of storage systems for large enterprises, service providers, and carriers, said it appointed Kurt Reiss as the company's new vice president of marketing.

Mr. Reiss was previously on the executive team of Crossbeam Systems, which develops and manufactures carrier-class network application platforms. At Crossbeam, he helped develop and execute the company's product marketing and management strategies.

Prior to that position, Mr. Reiss served as director of product marketing and management for core platforms and services at Lucent Technologies.

Cereva's investors include Comdisco Ventures, Global Crossing Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Intel, Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Sumitomo, and Worldview Technology Partners.

http://www.cereva.com

• MontaVista Names Raymond Mak VP Sales for Asia Pacifictop   mail 
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- MontaVista Software, which provides open source systems software for embedded developers, said it named Raymond Mak as its new vice president of sales for the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Mak formerly worked at Caldera International where he was a vice president dealing with Unix and Linux server software sales. He will be based in Hong Kong. MontaVista Software is backed by Alloy Ventures, Intel Capital, RRE Ventures, US Venture Partners, and WR Hambrecht & Co.

http://www.mvista.com

• Mitch Bishop Appointed VP of Marketing for TightLinktop   mail 
BERKELEY, CALIF. -- TightLink, a provider of collaborative interaction management technology, said it added Mitch Bishop as vice president of marketing. Mr. Bishop formerly served as vice president of corporate communications at Scopus Technology and vice president of marketing at Mobileum.

TightLink is backed by Angel Investors LP, Roda Group, and Sierra Ventures.

http://www.tightlink.com

FINANCE

• ForwardVue Names Ashley Abbot as VP, Financial Engineeringtop   mail 
AUSTIN, TEXAS -- ForwardVue Technologies, a provider of supply chain risk management software and services, said Ashley Abbott has joined the company as vice president, financial engineering.

Prior to joining ForwardVue, Ms. Abbott served as managing director, global trading and marketing for Duke Energy International.

ForwardVue has raised $3.5 million from Austin Ventures and AV Labs.

http://www.forwardvue.com.

• Gupta Adds Jeff Bailey as CFO, Anne O'Callahan as Mkt Dirtop   mail 
REDWOOD SHORES, CALIF. -- Gupta Technologies, a provider of embedded relational client-server databases software, said it appointed Jeff Bailey as chief financial officer. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Bailey served as vice president of finance and CFO at Vivant. Anne O'Callahan was named director of corporate marketing. Ms. O'Callahan previously served as senior marketing manager at Oracle, where she helped launch the Oracle8i Database Appliance and Oracle9i Application Server Appliance. Gupta Technologies is owned by Platinum Equity.

http://www.guptaworldwide.com

TECHNOLOGY

• Pacific Edge Names Thomas Haug VP of Engineeringtop   mail 
BELLEVUE, WASH. -- Pacific Edge Software, a developer of project management applications, said it has appointed Thomas Haug vice president of engineering. Mr. Haug has served as senior vice president of engineering and operations at WorldStream Communications and vice president of engineering and operations at FizzyLabs.

Pacific Edge Software's investors include Dain Rauscher Wessels, Fluke Venture Partners, Foundation Capital, Northwest Venture Associates, Matthew G. Norton Co., Sequoia Capital, and Stanford University.

http://www.pacificedge.com

• Vericept Names Bruce Chittenden SVP of Engineeringtop   mail 
DENVER -- Vericept, which develops plug-and-play hardware designed to end the problem of network abuse, said it named Bruce Chittenden as senior vice president of engineering. Mr. Chittenden previously served as chief technical officer at MessageMedia. Vericept is backed by Sequel Venture Partners.

http://www.vericept.com



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Wedgetail Communications supplies technology for securing embedded and network devices and application level security software solutions. Our core expertise in cryptography and network device security has allowed Wedgetail to develop a growing customer in North America and Canada. Wedgetail's head office is located in Brisbane, Australia. This is a growth opportunity in a privately held company opening its first office in Silicon Valley.

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Duties and Responsibilities:
* Working closely with the CEO and General Manager of Product Development.
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* Manage OEM relationships and sell to top tier accounts with a high degree of independence.
* Sell at a strategic level, developing and implementing strategic business plans.
* Develop and articulate strategy and products to customers and prospects.
* Identify market segments, create and execute sales strategy.

Required Qualifications:
* Start-up experience is a plus.
* At least 5+ years sales management experience.
* Background selling high-end software or services in the security industry.
* Relationship driven sales success record identifying and closing new customer accounts.
* Ability to work with other executives in a growing global team oriented environment.
* Excellent communication skills.
* Masters or BA degree in business/technical


e-mail: careers@wedgetail.com
company: Wedgetail Communications
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DRL is a developer of Next Generation Emissive Flat-Panel Displays. DRL achieves up to 10 X improvements in Power, Size and Cost through technology innovations and new manufacturing processes. Its proprietary Active Matrix technology enables low-cost and low-power Microdisplays for use in digital cameras, camcorders and video visors as well as other consumer & mobile electronics; its tiled Active Matrix LED technology targets indoor and outdoor 80-inch and larger video billboards and posters for dynamic advertising; its T-Flex Technology enables printing of Active Matrix Thin-Film-Transistor and Driver Circuitry on Flexible Plastic Substrates essential for low cost, high resolution Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) displays in Mobile Phone, PDA, HDTV and Portable Computing applications.

Responsibilities

- Manage all accounting functions
- Coordinate the Annual Year-end Audit
- Forecasting and Budgeting
- Financial, Management and Operational Reporting
- Strategic Planning
- Working closely with the CEO and VP of Corporate Development
- Interface with the equity investors, banks, auditors, third party vendors, tax and/or other regulatory reporting authorities

Requirements

- Strong accounting background and must be very hands-on
- At least 8-10 years recent industry experience
- Manufacturing experience (semiconductor and/or display industry a plus)
- Recent startup/small company or turn-around experience
- Previous large company experience (for infrastructure & reporting experience)
- Budgeting experience especially with large Capital Expenditures
- Experience in working with Venture Capitalists, Investment Bankers and Investors


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* Demonstrated investment results with a venture capital firm.
* Strong communications or semiconductor background (10+ years of relevant operating experience) that started off their career in an engineering role and was able to successfully move into a more senior Business Management role.
* Extensive personal and professional networks within the high tech industry
* PhD in EE or CS, BS/MS strongly preferred

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* A keen sense of humor
* Highly competitive and driven to success
* Proactive vs. reactive
* Independent thinker yet a team player

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