Symmetricom Promotes
David Cox to Executive Vice President and General Manager
(13 February 2007) Symmetricom, Inc.,
a world-wide leader in precise time and frequency products and services, today
announced that David Cox has been promoted to executive vice president and
general manager of the company's new QoE (Quality of Experience) Assurance
Division.
David joined Symmetricom as vice president of
corporate business development in April 2006. Earlier this year, Symmetricom
announced its acquisition of QoSmetrics, a privately held provider of QoE
solutions for IPTV and other triple play services, now part of the new
division.
"Under the direction of David Cox, we expect that the QoE
Assurance Division will establish a strong market position in IPTV/QoE markets,
building upon our core expertise in generating precise time and synchronisation
for next generation networks," commented Tom Steipp, CEO of Symmetricom. "QoE
is a logical extension of our position in existing communication networks and
places us in the path of customer initiatives to deploy IPTV and other triple
play services."
Prior to Symmetricom, David was the CEO of
Norwegian-based mobile search firm Stochasto ASA, and also co-founded and
served as the president and CEO of BlueKite, a mobile Internet software company
in the bandwidth optimisation space. At BlueKite, David and his team raised
over US$ 50 million in venture capital funding and served customers that
included British Telecom, Vodafone, Swisscom, Telia Sonera and Sprint PCS. He
was also a partner in the Silicon Valley office of Danish venture fund 2M
Invest and served as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, advising
companies in the U.S., Mexico and SE Asia on issues of corporate strategy and
organization. He previously served as a board director for Enable Semiconductor
(acquired by Lucent) and currently serves on the board of directors for
Covenant House California. David holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Texas and a Masters Degree in Business
Administration from the Stanford University Graduate School of
Business.
"I am excited to be a part of the team at Symmetricom that is
looking to extend our market leadership into the emerging QoE market for IPTV,"
commented David Cox, executive vice president and general manager of
Symmetricom. "These efforts will enable us to continue to support our telecom
customers' most critical needs for delivering multimedia services over
converged IP infrastructures. While our core businesses of precise timing and
synchronisation products will continue to drive innovation in these core
technology areas for NGN implementation, we are confident that our new QoE
initiative will provide an even broader base of mission-critical solutions for
our key customers."
About Symmetricom, Inc.
As a world-wide
leader in precise time and frequency products and services, Symmetricom
provides "Perfect Timing" to customers around the world. Since 1985, the
company's solutions have helped define the world's time and frequency
standards, delivering precision, reliability and efficiency to wireline and
wireless networks, instrumentation and testing applications and network time
management. Deployed in more than 90 countries, the company's synchronisation
solutions include primary reference sources, building integrated timing
supplies (BITS), GPS timing receivers, time and frequency distribution systems,
network time servers and ruggedised oscillators. Symmetricom also incorporates
technologies including Universal Timing Interface (UTI), Network Time Protocol
(NTP), Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588), and others supporting the world's
migration to Next Generation Networks (NGN). Symmetricom is based in San Jose,
Calif., with offices world-wide.
(source: Symmetricom)
