Succeeding Ron Sege, Tom Ayers to Take the Reigns and Lead Tropos
in Its Next Phase of Growth
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--Tropos(R) Networks, the market leader in metro-scale broadband
wireless mesh networks, today announced the appointment of veteran
sales executive Tom Ayers as President and CEO to head the company as
it expands its leadership in municipal and industrial enterprise
markets. Mr. Ayers will succeed Ron Sege who will continue to serve as
Advisor to the company.
On behalf of Tropos' Board of Directors, Chairman Dave Hanna said,
"I want to take this opportunity to thank Ron for his vision,
evangelism and tireless commitment to Tropos and the whole metro Wi-Fi
industry. "He built a great foundation here at Tropos and I look
forward to working with him in his future endeavors."
During Sege's four year tenure, he helped create the metro Wi-Fi
market and drove the company's significant customer and partner
growth, product direction and team development, to achieve market and
technology leadership. During the past six months alone, Tropos has
experienced a 40% growth in the number of users on networks monitored
by the company.
"We are excited to have Tom Ayers, with his great and varied sales
track record, on board to lead the next phase of Tropos' growth," said
Bill Gurley, General Partner of Benchmark Capital and member of the
Board. "I wish to add my thanks to Ron for his exemplary leadership at
Tropos as well as his key role in building the company and the metro
Wi-Fi industry. We wish Ron well and welcome Tom to the team."
Mr. Ayers is a 30-year industry veteran who was most recently the
Senior Vice President of Field Operations at Blue Coat Systems. While
at Blue Coat, he helped lead the company through a significant market
transition which resulted in thousands of new customers, number one
market share and company profitability. Prior to Blue Coat, he led
sales organizations for the McAfee Security division of Network
Associates. Before that, he improved revenue growth and profitability
at Sequent Computer Systems. He also served as Vice President of Sales
for Amdahl's worldwide professional services and multi-vendor
maintenance organizations, growing the business more than fourfold.
"Tom has a tremendous track record in managing both large and
small companies through market transitions to build profitable, high
growth businesses," added Hanna.
About Tropos Networks, Inc.
Tropos(R) Networks is the market leader in delivering metro-scale
wireless IP mesh networks. The company's systems have been selected to
unwire more major league cities than all competitors combined and are
installed in 30 countries. The patented Tropos MetroMesh(TM)
architecture delivers the ultimate scalability, high capacity at low
cost and great user experience demanded by service providers,
municipalities and network users. Tropos Networks' unique expertise
includes high-performance mesh software development, mesh RF
engineering, metro-scale network planning, deployment and
optimization, and navigating the municipal approval process. Tropos
Networks is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more
information, please visit www.tropos.com, call 408-331-6800 or write
to info@tropos.com.
Tropos and PWRP are registered trademarks of Tropos Networks, Inc.
Tropos Networks, MetroMesh, AMCE, TMCX, SABRE, CMDP and Metro-Scale
Mesh Networking Defined are trademarks of Tropos Networks, Inc. All
other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks
of their respective holder(s).
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