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NextHop Names Michael Will as Vice President
Customer Operations
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — December
11, 2005—NextHop
Technologies® Inc., the leader in networking
software solutions, today announced the promotion
of Michael Will to vice president, Customer Operations.
Mr. Will previously served as director of customer
operations for NextHop. Prior to that he was
vice president of worldwide customer service and
operations at Larscom Inc. With this promotion, he
will become an executive officer of the company.
"Mike has been instrumental in establishing
market acceptance for our company vision and our products,"
said Ed Cluss president and CEO of NextHop. "With
our customers ramping production, Mike Will’s
operational experience with OEMs, ODMs and services
organizations will be valuable as we accelerate and
expand our market leadership."
Network equipment manufacturers, faced with new business
realities are increasingly looking to original design
manufacturers (ODMs) to provide them with solutions.
By providing production-ready networking software,
NextHop enables network equipment manufacturers to
accelerate time to market, and, more importantly, time
to revenue for wireless and wired local area network
(LAN) products at significantly lower price points.
Mr. Will is responsible for support, operations, quality,
training, and professional services for NextHop. Mr.
Will comes to NextHop with over 20 years of customer
facing operational experience including technical support,
quality, assembly and manufacturing, business operations,
factory repair, field service, corporate training and
service sales. Will earned electronic engineering
degrees in both video and biomedical technologies from
Brown Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and holds
service management certifications from the University
of Wisconsin.
About NextHop Technologies
NextHop Technologies® Inc., the leader in networking
software solutions, enables original equipment manufacturers
to quickly bring wireless and wired switches to market
at significantly lower price points than existing alternatives. The
company’s Dynamic Network Architecture (DNA)
delivers modular software components - wireless plus
NextHop’s flagship GateD® solutions for LAN
switching and routing that are easily portable across
hardware and software platforms. The DNA framework
also allows our customers and partners to easily augment
NextHop solutions with differentiating 3rd party applications
and features for carrier and enterprise markets. NextHop
is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For
more information visit www.nexthop.com
NextHop Technologies and GateD
are registered trademarks and NextHop is a trademark
of NextHop Technologies Inc. All other third party
marks mentioned herein may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
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