• Net2Phone Inc. announced that Dan Schulman, president and chief operating officer of priceline.com, Martin Yudkovitz, president of NBC Interactive Media, and Michael Fischberger, senior vice president of Domestic Telecommunications and Internet services at IDT, will join the Net2Phone board of directors, bringing the total number of directors to 11.
  
  
• VCON, a developer of high-performance video conferencing hardware and software products for the business market, announced the appointment of Gordon Daugherty as the new senior vice president of sales for the Americas market. Daugherty will also continue his responsibilities as the senior vice president of marketing and business development reporting to VCON's President Bob Romano.
  
  
• GlarNet Communications Services, Inc., an Internet services billing and customer care services bureau, announced that David S. Levine has joined the company as director, Marketing and Alliance Management and Jim Trousdale has joined as manager, New Business Development.
  
  
• Easyphone, which will enter the new millennium as Altitude Software, announced the appointment of Jonathan R. Bond to company chief financial officer. Easyphone is a global provider of complete software solutions for today's mixed media contact center.
  
  
• Right Now Technologies, a provider of Internet customer care systems, announced that Jeff Honeycomb has joined the company as president and chief operating officer. In his new position, Honeycomb will oversee Right Now’s worldwide sales, marketing and customer support operations.
  
  
• visitalk.com announced that Jeffrey Hirschberg, Esq., a former vice chairman of Ernst & Young, has joined the company's board of directors. He will be active in defining and creating strategic alliances for visitalk.com.
  
  
• PeopleSupport.com, a leader in mission-critical customer support solutions, announced the opening of its office in the heart of the Silicon Valley -- Cupertino, California. In addition to the new location, PeopleSupport.com has added sales and service representative Jerry Casilli to its staff.
  
  
• Onyx Software, a provider of Web-based customer relationship management (CRM) systems, announced the appointment of Gregg Paisley to the position of vice president, strategic marketing.
  
  
• Telecom visionary Roy A. Wilkens has accepted a position on the board of directors of Tachion Networks Inc., creators of the Collapsed Central Office switching system for next-generation carrier infrastructures. Wilkens founded Williams in 1985. Telecommunications (WilTel).
  
  
• Brooktrout Technology announced it has appointed Mike Mercadante as vice president of engineering and John Edwards as vice president of research and development for its Voice Technologies Division. These appointments will enable the division to both bring products to market faster and to explore and evaluate new technologies.
  
  
• telecom technologies, inc., a provider of telecommunications software products and services, announced it has promoted Terri Griffin to vice president of marketing. Brian M. Forbes has also joined the company as vice president of business development.
  
  
• Ziatech Corp., a developer of applied computing solutions for telecom and Internet applications, has hired industry veteran John Ryan as its new director of quality. Ryan will oversee the company's Total Quality Program, enhancing the current quality system and integrating improvements into the company's design, procurement and manufacturing processes in an environment of dramatic growth.
  
  
• Interactive Intelligence, Inc. announced that it recently hired its first CFO, Michael Tavlin, formerly with Aliant Communications Inc. Tavlin played a major role in the company's recent Initial Public Offering, and will function as a primary contact for investor relations.
  
  
• Novazen, Inc., a vendor of Internet-based customer relationship management, electronic bill presentment and payment, and bill consolidation today announced that John Hansen, former CEO of Metapath Software and e-commerce and telecommunications industry consultant, has joined its board of directors.
  
  
• XACCT Technologies, Inc., a leader in the IP mediation market, announced that it has hired Damian Black to fill the new position of vice president of applications solutions. Black will be responsible for helping the company define and execute programs that will help XACCT meet its aggressive revenue ramp.
  
  
• Clarent Corporation, a leader in carrier-grade, phone-to-phone IP telephony solutions, announced the appointment of Albert Mu as vice president of engineering.

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