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Meru appoints VP to help sales push
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 04 August 2004, 19:30 IST
CALIF: Meru Networks, which designs and develops wireless local area network systems, named a vice president of worldwide sales and a vice president of customer support, saying the appointments reflect increased demand for its products, as well as sales push in the U.S. and abroad.
In addition, the company said it now has over 70 employees. This is up from roughly 45 employees it had in April, when it said it would add 25 to 30 people over the course of the year.
Kamal Anand, Meru's vice president of marketing and business development, said still more hires will be made by December, in engineering, sales and marketing, and customer support.
The new appointments are Jerry Jalaba, vice president of worldwide sales, and Mike Romani, vice president of customer support.
Jalaba, 48 years old, worked most recently with CoSine Communications Inc., the publicly traded Internet Protocol and broadband services company. Jalaba also has worked with International Business Machines Corp. and 3Com Corp., as well as with start-ups.
In his post at Meru, he will develop and oversee strategies for increasing the size of worldwide sales operations, improving distribution channels and creating partnerships.
Romani, also 48, will head Meru employees who train and provide support to the company's business partners and customers. He joins the company from publicly traded Ciena Corp., a provider of networking equipment, where he was senior director of global technical support.
Romani picks up duties carried by Vice President of Product Management Srinath Sarang, while Jalaba takes his reigns from marketing vice president Anand.
Total funding at Meru, founded in 2002, is $30.7 million. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company said in April it raised $17 million in an oversubscribed Series B round led by BlueStream Ventures.
Other backers include Sierra Ventures, Clearstone Venture Partners, Evercore Ventures, BrainHeart Capital and NeoCarta Ventures Inc., as well as JumpStartUp Venture Fund, Monitor Ventures and Dot Edu Ventures.