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Ceon Continues Momentum With Hiring of New President REDWOOD CITY, California, November 16 /PRNewswire/ --- Ceon Announces Craig Olsen, Seasoned Executive From the Broadband Industry, as New President to Head up Customer-Facing Organizations Ceon Corporation, the fast-emerging leader of tier one broadband provisioning solutions, announced today Craig Olsen as its President. Olsen will oversee and manage all customer-facing organizations including sales, marketing, and customer solutions (customer support and professional services). He will report to Peter Burke, CEO of Ceon. "Ceon's success in winning broadband provisioning contracts from five of the top ten Cable MSOs has recently crossed over into Telecom, with the last two contracts being from tier one Telcos," said Burke. "With this kind of momentum, we needed to put in place an experienced broadband executive who could help us manage all of our customer-facing operations. We are excited to have found this ability in Craig Olsen and look forward to his contributions to ensuring customer satisfaction and continued growth." Mr. Olsen has over 20 years of operations and sales leadership experience working in companies targeting the Global 1000. Notable successes include: President of Valista Inc, the world's leader in payment software for electronic and mobile commerce; Chief Operating Officer of iPIN, a provider of e-commerce solutions to Telco's, MNO's and MSO's; Senior Vice President of International Operations at Niku, a market leader in enterprise portfolio management software; Senior Vice President of Sales at Teligent, a seller of broadband services to business customers and communications carriers; and Vice President and General Manager of MCI Worldcom's Integrated Communications Services Division, a leading provider of integrated hardware, software, IT solutions and data services to Fortune 500 companies. "The first phase of our company was building the kind of product that tier one companies would prefer," said John Tingleff, CFO of Ceon. "We believe we have achieved that. The second phase is building the customer-facing side of our company so that we're the preferred company to work with. Craig Olsen is a seasoned veteran who has built world class sales, marketing and services organizations and we are confident he will add significant value to Ceon". About Ceon Ceon Corporation is the preferred choice of tier one Cable MSOs, both domestically and internationally, for the provisioning of IP-based broadband services. It is also the fast-emerging leader amongst tier one Telcos for the order management and service activation of VoIP services. Leveraging its many years of experience in developing multi-service solutions for U.S. RBOCs, Ceon was the first to market with an advanced, second generation OSS platform for IP-based voice, data, and video services. Ceon's platform stands alone in its ability to scale from second- and third-tier Telcos and MSOs to large tier one deployments due to its open, standards-based distributed architecture. Because the interface to both billing software and network elements is done through adapters, Ceon's Integration and Provisioning Suite(TM) is ideal for the provisioning of multiple IP services across a single platform. This drastically reduces the time, cost, and resources needed to manage the orders and service activation of multiple services to a common customer. Ceon is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has regional sales offices in North America and Europe. NOTE: Ceon and the Ceon logo are trademarks of Ceon Corporation. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: John Tingleff of Ceon Corporation, +1-650-817-6510, or [email protected]. Web site: http://www.ceon.com Ceon Corporation John Tingleff of Ceon Corporation, +1-650-817-6510, or [email protected] |