Unisphere Networks, a provider of IP infrastructure to enable broadband data and voice services, announced the appointment of Cabletron founder Craig Benson to the Unisphere board of directors.

RealChip Communications Inc., a provider of custom and standard chips for communications applications, announced the appointment of John Zucker to president and CEO. The company also announced the appointment of Bill Hobgood to vice president of sales.

Members of the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) elected a new 15-member board of directors and slate of executive officers, including Matt Collier, vice president of Business Development and OEM Alliances, Polycom, as president.

FrontRange Solutions Inc. has appointed Christopher Ryan to the new position of vice president, worldwide marketing, HEAT products.

Blue Pumpkin Software, a provider of workforce management solutions for customer contact centers, announced the appointment of Bill Durr as chief evangelist.

Ennovate Networks Inc., a provider of multi-service edge switching platforms, announced the appointment of Matt Camp as vice president of worldwide sales.

Microlog Corporation announced that Terence M. McFarland has accepted a position as vice president, sales and marketing.

LaserComm Inc., a developer of innovative optical communications modules that increase the performance and capacity of broadband fiber optic networks, announced Yongqian Liu has joined the company as chief scientist.

Level 8, a global provider of high performance e-business integration software, announced that Anthony Pizi has joined Level 8 as chairman of the board and chief technology officer. Sam Somech, who currently holds the title of CTO, will continue as vice chairman of the company. The company also announced that Arik Kilman will become chief strategic officer and will be succeeded as chief executive officer by Steven Dmiszewicki. Paul Rampel joins Level 8 as senior vice president of research and development.

Usha Communications Technology has named Kaustav Sengupta as vice president, Integration Services.

Onix Microsystems, a developer and manufacturer of all-optical switching engines for communications networks, announced the appointment of Jerry Chappell as vice president of sales.

AVT Corporation, a provider of unified communications solutions, announced that Tom Ryan, former senior vice president of Engineering with AVT's MediaLinq Services Group, has accepted the position of chief technology officer at AVT.

Avici Systems Inc., a provider of scalable core routing solutions for intelligent IP-over-optical networks, announced that its board of directors has elected chief executive officer, Surya Panditi, to the position of co-chairman and Steve Kaufman, chief operating officer, to the position of president.

Phonetic Systems, Inc. has added key executives to its management team: John Tallarico, director of product management; focusing on the Internet/wireless market; Bob Miele, director of product management, focusing on building the companies core technology and the enterprise market; Ed Hixon, director of product management, focusing on the deployment within the telecom and directory assistance market. The company also added Nicholas Lewis as its director in Europe.

ZAMBA Solutions announced a series of changes to its management team. Manish Gupta and Jeff McCall have joined the company's executive management team, in the newly created roles of executive vice president of Solutions and executive vice president of Internal Operations, respectively. Paul McLean has been promoted to the new position of executive vice president of Delivery Operations. In addition, Mike Santos joins the company in the position of vice president of Eastern Region Operations and Michael Yinger has been promoted to the position of vice president of Western Region Operations.

MedioStream, Inc. announced that Philip F. Otto, former chairman and CEO of California Microwave, Inc., has joined the MedioStream board of directors and has become chief financial officer of this media compression and Internet video streaming company.

The board of directors of VoIP Telecom, Inc. announced that Ken Berscht has been appointed senior vice president, corporate finance.

Former CEO and industry expert Stephen B. Parker joins Hailes & Associates as managing director of the executive recruiting firm's information systems and e-commerce practices.

Glasgow-based integrated telecommunications and Internet services company iomart Group plc have announced the appointment of Daniel Smith as director of ASP Services for iomart.

Pingtel, creator of intelligent, Java-enabled, voice over IP (VoIP) phones and management software, announced the appointment of three industry veterans to newly created executive positions: Dan Petrie, chief architecture; Jonathan Ross, vice president of sales; and, Mike Storella, vice president of customer service.

MCK Communications, a provider of solutions to enable the delivery of business-quality voice over existing and next-generation networks, announced the appointment of Glenda Davis as president and CEO. Woody Benson, former president and CEO, will continue as MCK's chairman of the board.

Ultraband Fiber Optics Inc., a developer of dynamic optical signal processors, today announced that Kirk Flatow has been appointed president and chief executive officer.

HarmonyCOM, a developer of automatic provisioning software for telecommunications companies, named Paul McAfee as chief marketing officer.