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BTI Systems announces appointment of William I. Campbell and J. Ian Giffen to Board of Directors
Ottawa, Canada — Tuesday, April 21, 2009 //
BTI Systems, a global supplier of Intelligent Service Edge systems for the delivery of high-bandwidth, multi-protocol services today announced that it has appointed two new members to its Board of Directors, William I. Campbell and J. Ian Giffen. Mr. Giffen will also chair the Audit Committee.
Mr. Campbell is currently a Senior Advisor for JPMorgan Chase & Co. He serves as President of Sanoch Management, a consulting and investment firm for financial companies, start-ups, and venture capital firms.
Previously Mr. Campbell was Chairman of Bank One Card Services. He also served as Chairman of Visa International, leading the organization to its IPO in 2008, the largest in U.S. history.
Prior to this Mr. Campbell was Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup’s Global Consumer Business. He spent 28 years at Philip Morris, including five years as Chief Executive Officer of Philip Morris USA.
Mr. Campbell holds Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Alberta and a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario. He is a member of the Canadian Advisory Board to the Woodrow Wilson Institute.
Mr. Giffen is currently an Advisor / Director to various technology companies and investment funds, including Descartes Systems Group (Chairman), Corel Corporation Inc, MKS Inc, Absolute Software Inc and Ruggedcom Inc..
Previously Mr. Giffen acted as an Advisor/Board member to Macromedia, which sold to Adobe Systems Inc for $4 billion, XDL Venture Fund and Helix Venture Funds. He was also a member of other boards, and an advisor to numerous other companies, including DPS Inc, Sierra Systems Inc, Open Text Inc, Financial Models Inc, 724 Solutions Inc (Chairman), Algorithmics Inc, DWL Inc, Changepoint Inc, and MGI Software Inc.
Mr. Giffen holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow , Scotland.and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.
“I’m very pleased to have William and Ian on board to help us accomplish our goals,” said Gregory Koss, CEO, BTI Systems. “Their insight and expertise will greatly benefit BTI and contribute to our success in delivering Carrier Ethernet Services around the globe.”
About BTI Systems
BTI Systems addresses increasing demand for Ethernet services, greater optical capacity, dynamic networking, and management simplicity in service provider and enterprise networks. Expanding the capacity of a single fiber up to 320Gbps, BTI’s Intelligent Service Edge solutions provide wavelength and packet-level delivery of high capacity services such as video, storage, wired data, wireless data and voice, and media to the network edge. Incorporating state-of-the-art technology BTI products are engineered for very low power consumption to reduce carbon footprint in central offices and data centers. The BTI portfolio consists of The BTI 7000 Packet Optical Edge, the BTI 700 Ethernet Access, and the Netstender microWDM™ Series. Key transport capabilities including CWDM/DWDM, optical multiplexing, amplification, dispersion compensation, software-provisionable multiprotocol client service interfaces, and packet-switching. End-to-end management of the BTI Network is provided by the proNX™ Management Suite.
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